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Netflix UK film review: The Old Ways
March 5, 2021 | Anton BitelChristopher Alender’s layered horror uses the tropes of exorcism to stage cross-border, cross-cultural clashes.Read More
VOD film review: The Stylist
March 1, 2021 | Anton BitelJill Gevargizian’s superlative psychodrama marries a deranged stylist to her client in a messy union.Read More
VOD film review: Showgirls
September 25, 2020 | Matthew TurnerElizabeth Berkley plays a Las Vegas dancer clawing her way to the top in Paul Verhoeven’s gloriously trashy cult favourite.Read More
VOD film review: The Devil All the Time
September 19, 2020 | Luke ChannellThis sprawling, superbly performed mid-Western Gothic is relentlessly bleak, brutally violent and constantly engrossing.Read More
VOD film review: True History of the Kelly Gang
July 1, 2020 | Chris BryantGeorge MacKay shines in this underwhelming history of the Kelly gang.Read More
The Lighthouse (2019) review: Brilliantly unnerving
June 17, 2020 | David FarnorWillem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson are brilliantly unnerving in this clammy, claustrophobic horror.Read More
You Don’t Nomi review: An engaging celebration of Showgirls
June 12, 2020 | Matthew TurnerThis engaging documentary takes an astute look at the rehabilitation of Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls.Read More
Amores Perros review: Brutal and breathless
April 29, 2020 | David FarnorAlejandro González Iñárritu’s visceral debut is a brutal, breathless thriller.Read More
Moffie review: A powerful tale of toxic masculinity
April 26, 2020 | David FarnorA harsh, powerful portrait of toxic masculinity in apartheid-era South Africa.Read More
Swallow review: An unsettling psychological thriller
April 25, 2020 | David FarnorHaley Bennett is chillingly good in this unsettling psychological thriller that’s hard to stomach.Read More