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#LFF2016: Ma’ Rosa, Pyromaniac, All This Panic

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

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Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.

#LFF2016: Down Under, Indivisible, Wild

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

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Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.

The Girl with All the Gifts movie review: I believe the children are our future…

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

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Stakes out its own fresh place in an SF subgenre that is well played out, and rehumanizes it ways that are both extraordinarily moving and deeply unnerving.

Black movie review: tragically bad

Fri, Aug 19, 2016

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A facile riff on Romeo & Juliet amongst Brussels gangs. Banal, clichéd, and treats its teenage-girl protagonist in a spectacularly disgusting way.

Microbe & Gasoline movie review: adolescent angst (subtitled)

Wed, Aug 03, 2016

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Michel Gondry’s latest is charming but slight, and its typical teen-boy obsessions about boobs and bullies are already well-trod ground.

Margarita with a Straw movie review: this ain’t no pity party

Tue, Jun 14, 2016

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Open, frank, funny romantic dramedy about a young Indian woman living with cerebral palsy. A perfect antidote to the disability pity porn of Me Before You.

Holding the Man movie review: grand romance, no qualifiers needed

Fri, Jun 03, 2016

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Told with a lovely romantic sweep and full of raw, honest emotion, this is a gay love story that’s also just a great love story, full stop. Yay.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows movie review: shell schlock

Mon, May 30, 2016

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Leaden and witless, though it obviously believes there is humor in its loud, chaotic juvenility. It would be an insult to cartoons to call this cartoonish.