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The Harder They Fall: An absolute blast
November 3, 2021 | David Farnor
Jeymes Samuel’s thrilling, trailblazing Western is an absolute blast.Read More
VOD film review: Mouthpiece
March 12, 2021 | Bianca Garner
A compelling exploration of grief and womanhood powered by two shining performances.Read More
VOD film review: The Devil All the Time
September 19, 2020 | Luke Channell
This sprawling, superbly performed mid-Western Gothic is relentlessly bleak, brutally violent and constantly engrossing.Read More
The Lighthouse (2019) review: Brilliantly unnerving
June 17, 2020 | David Farnor
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson are brilliantly unnerving in this clammy, claustrophobic horror.Read More
Da 5 Bloods review: A war movie like no other
June 13, 2020 | David Farnor
Spike Lee’s bold epic of racial injustice and reparation is uncompromising, urgent, thrilling and powerful cinema.Read More
1917 review: Heart-wrenching and jaw-dropping
May 6, 2020 | David Farnor
Sam Mendes’ visceral WWI thriller is as heart-wrenching as it is jaw-dropping.Read More
VOD film review: Happy As Lazzaro
August 1, 2019 | Rachel Bowles
Alice Rohrwacher’s fantastical realist drama resonates with centuries of Italian working class history.Read More
VOD film review: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
June 12, 2019 | David Farnor
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant are wonderful in this funny, moving, deeply honest story of identity and isolation.Read More
VOD film review: Glass
May 27, 2019 | David Farnor
Shyamalan’s unlikely comic book trilogy reaches an uneven but entertaining climax.Read More
Triple Frontier: A brooding tale of morality and masculinity
March 18, 2019 | David Farnor
J.C. Chandor’s brooding tale of morality and masculinity mostly hits its target.Read More
