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2018 theatrical releases

Final Portrait movie review: the not-so-fine making of fine art

Wed, Jan 10, 2018
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A bleakly funny, genteelly twisted gloss on the clichés of temperamental creative genius, via the relationship between an artist and his subject, one that questions the sometimes high personal price of great art.

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Mountain documentary review: the philosophy of peak adventure

Sat, Dec 16, 2017
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Dizzying and dazzling, this is a stirring meditation on the allure, the mystery, and the danger of the world’s highest summits, as places but also as ideas.

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Paddington 2 movie review: wrap yourself up in this bear hug

Fri, Nov 10, 2017
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There is such kindness here, such humanity, such warmth and optimism. This is a fantasy of unique scope and astonishing emotional depth beneath the silliness.

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The Death of Stalin movie review: the great dictator

Wed, Oct 25, 2017
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Audacious, outrageous, bleakly funny. Not since Charlie Chaplin sent up Hitler and invited us to laugh at terrible reality has there been a movie like this.

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The Chamber movie review: hell and high water

Fri, Mar 10, 2017
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A wonder of low-budget suspense, this is a horror movie with no monsters, only people in an impossible situation. Intense, claustrophobic, totally gripping.

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A Second Chance movie review: cops and fathers

Mon, Mar 23, 2015
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An impossible tragedy, a movie that confounds all expectations and is full of a terrible suspense. You have never seen a cop movie like this before.

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