Saturday, 4 April 2026

American Fiction (Cord Jefferson, 2023)

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The estimable Jeffrey Wright plays a literature professor whose highbrow novels aren't selling, sent on leave by his college for challen...
Monday, 30 March 2026

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Hettie Macdonald, 2023)

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Rachel Joyce did write the best-selling novel in 2012, but the very thematically similar  The Last Bus  pipped the film adaptation of this o...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

Verdens Verste Menneske (Joachim Trier, 2021)

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The theme of a young woman without a sense of vocational or emotional purpose is becoming a well-weathered trope, noticeably in affluent, eg...
Saturday, 21 March 2026

Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, 2024)

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Leigh, now in his eighties, still won't stop ploughing the same furrow of depicting complex, flawed characters struggling to deal with t...
Monday, 16 March 2026

Der Tiger (Dennis Gansel, 2025)

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80 years after the end of WWII and it appears we're finally ready to have action films that have German soldiers as the protagonists. Bu...
Saturday, 14 March 2026

War Machine (Patrick Hughes, 2026)

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The plot, which won't have taken a whole napkin to write down on, is the off-the-shelf one of gung-ho U.S. squaddies getting hunted down...
Friday, 13 March 2026

Afterlight (Alison Kohlhardt & Andrew McGee, 2025)

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This purports to be an anthology film, but its five parts have no connecting thread at all, except for vaguely being classifiable as dystopi...