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VOD film review: The Wild Pear Tree
December 2, 2018 | David FarnorNuri Bilge Ceylan’s poetic, novelistic piece of cinema depicts the arrogance of youth with funny, moving nuance.Read More
VOD film review: Pili
November 10, 2018 | David FarnorThis thoughtful, moving drama about a Tanzanian woman with HIV carries a gently powerful documentary realism.Read More
VOD film review: Scanners (1981)
September 14, 2018 | Anton BitelDavid Cronenberg’s coolly clinical sci-fi Scanners is mind-blowing art for outsiders.Read More
VOD film review: Lucky
September 14, 2018 | Matthew TurnerHarry Dean Stanton delivers a wonderful penultimate performance in this delightful, low-key indie drama.Read More
VOD film review: Beast
August 25, 2018 | David FarnorPowered by two superb rising stars, this swooning, sinister gothic romance is a killer directorial debut.Read More
VOD film review: I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)
August 5, 2018 | Laurence BoyceMikhail Kalatozov’s astonishing portrait of Cuba transcends its propaganda origins and deserves a more prominent place in cinema history.Read More
VOD film review: Zama
May 25, 2018 | Matthew TurnerDaniel Giménez Cacho delivers a stirring performance in Lucrecia Martel’s entrancing, Kafkaesque drama.Read More
VOD film review: Let The Sunshine In
April 19, 2018 | Simon KinnearJuliette Binoche is brilliant in this witty but episodic romantic comedy from Claire Denis.Read More
VOD film review: A Dark Song
January 2, 2018 | David FarnorGripping, unrelenting and unique, you’ve never seen a haunted house movie like this.Read More
VOD film review: Beach Rats
November 24, 2017 | Matthew TurnerBritish actor Harris Dickinson makes a terrific debut in this sensitive study of sexual exploration and denial.Read More