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A Private War movie review: this is not fake news (LFF 2018)

Tue, Nov 13, 2018
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A moving and important portrait of legendary Times of London foreign correspondent Marie Colvin. We need more movies like this, about fearless, badass women this outrageously good at their vitally necessary work.

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Bohemian Rhapsody movie review: dynamite with a laser beam

Tue, Oct 30, 2018
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Rami Malek brings warmth, humor, and a down-to-earth humanity to the larger-than-life Freddie Mercury. But it is the power of Queen’s music — the rousing good cheer, its sheer rock ’n’ roll joy — that fills up this pure brash entertainment.

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Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. documentary review: the multiple identities of a modern artist

Wed, Sep 26, 2018
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A tremendous backgrounder, intimate and personal, on the massively popular — and massively political — hip-hop artist. Here is the source of all her anger and passion, and here is why she needs to be heard.

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The Children Act movie review: objections, sustained

Fri, Aug 24, 2018
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Courtroom drama? Portrait of a marriage? Character study of a workaholic? This frustratingly random film cannot figure out what it is or what it wants to say… but Emma Thompson’s beautifully empathetic performance is worth your time.

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout movie review: here we go again

Tue, Jul 24, 2018
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Masterful. I had so much fun with this, often laughing out loud in relief when the tension of a breathless action scene finally broke. So why am I feeling a bit meh about it?

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The Receptionist movie review: unpretty woman

Fri, Jul 20, 2018
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Gloomy, authentic, essential: this auspicious feature debut from writer-director Jenny Lu is an anti–fairy tale of forgotten women and the false promises of end-stage capitalism.

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The Happy Prince movie review: in the gutter, looking at the stars

Fri, Jun 15, 2018
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Writer, director, and star Rupert Everett’s labor of cinematic love, about the last years of Oscar Wilde, is a small wonder of contradictions: nightmarish yet sanguine, a bit sordid yet full of grace.

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Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist documentary review: counterculture’s wise elder woman

Sun, Jun 10, 2018
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There’s nothing fawning and plenty ironic about this essential first documentary to cover a major female fashion designer, a woman whose life is almost a perfect reflection of the trajectory of 20th-century feminism.

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McQueen documentary review: the tragedy of the fashion provocateur

Fri, Jun 08, 2018
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There’s so much fresh air in this stunningly good biography that it feels like you’ve never encountered a rags-to-riches, tortured-artist story before. Not just for fashion lovers.

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My Generation documentary review: when London was swinging

Thu, May 31, 2018
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A brilliantly thrilling look back at the flowering of creativity and freethinking spirit of 1960s London, through the thoroughly charming perspective of Michael Caine.

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