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Edward Porter

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The Beekeeper (2024) 71% 2/5 EDIT “Wait to watch this at home during a brain-resting evening. ” – Sunday Times (UK) Jan 29, 2024 Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% EDIT “It’s a beautifully odd duckling... Men, be on guard. Bella Baxter will eat you for breakfast.” – Sunday Times (UK) Jan 29, 2024 Full Review The Kitchen (2023) 89% 3/5 EDIT “The story that unfolds here — with Kane Robinson as a striver who develops paternal feelings for a parentless boy (Jedaiah Bannerman) — is anticlimactic, but there is richness in the performances and all the film’s details. ” – Sunday Times (UK) Jan 22, 2024 Full Review The End We Start From (2023) 89% 3/5 EDIT “Mahalia Belo’s drama is aimless. But as a tactile, vivid portrait of a new mother facing challenges, it might speak to anyone who has been there, whether or not your experiences happened alongside a wider cataclysm.” – Sunday Times (UK) Jan 22, 2024 Full Review The Goldfinger (2023) 59% 3/5 EDIT “Here, the stars are a definite selling point, but the film is trading in sub-prime derivatives. ” – Sunday Times (UK) Jan 8, 2024 Full Review Good Grief (2023) 76% 3/5 EDIT “The result is a pretty aimless series of conversations, but at least the lines are well polished.” – Sunday Times (UK) Jan 8, 2024 Full Review SCALA!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “In Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary, Scala!!!, the talking heads include the director John Waters, whose films were quintessential Scala fare, and the comedian Adam Buxton.” – Sunday Times (UK) Jan 8, 2024 Full Review The Boy and the Heron (2023) 96% 4/5 EDIT “For some of us, the leaps made by Miyazaki’s plots are faintly irritating, but in this case I was still carried along by the film’s emotional heft and superb visual inventions.” – Sunday Times (UK) Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Eileen (2023) 81% 3/5 EDIT “Oldroyd’s previous film, Lady Macbeth, starring Florence Pugh, was another tale of an oppressed woman breaking out, but where that movie was riveting, this is merely watchable. ” – Sunday Times (UK) Dec 4, 2023 Full Review The Eternal Daughter (2022) 95% 3/5 EDIT “Swinton’s grey-haired old lady routine is a bit much, but there is wit and pathos in the film’s game.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Wish (2023) 48% 2/5 EDIT “It follows the studio’s fairytale formula: plucky heroine, villainous magician, talking animals, and big songs. Yet the story brings no new life to the parade.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 28, 2023 Full Review The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) 64% 3/5 EDIT “Yet [Coriolanus Snow's] links to the story’s future aren’t enough to make him fascinating here. Thank goodness for Rachel Zegler, who plays a woman fighting for her life.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Journey to Bethlehem (2023) 74% 2/5 EDIT “ ... It struck me as rather cheesy and ludicrous. In its own way, though, the film is competently put together and rattles along. ” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Driving Madeleine (2022) 94% EDIT “Thanks to the film’s cosy spirit, this melancholy tale is no deeper than a happy one would have been. But it makes for a watchable, mildly poignant drama.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review The Mission (2023) 94% 3/5 EDIT “You might be puzzled by the film-makers’ own zeal: it’s hard to see exactly why they felt this tale had to be told. Still, the results are interesting in a “funny old world” sort of way.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Leo (2023) 84% 3/5 EDIT “This is all quite refreshing, and it comes with lots of songs and slick animation... ” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Tish (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s fitting that this documentary (directed by Paul Sng) also has a strong personal touch. ” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Stamped From the Beginning (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Roger Ross Williams’s vigorous documentary on the history of racism in America is in some ways an introduction for beginners.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Is There Anybody Out There? (2023) 88% 4/5 EDIT “[A] warm-hearted, richly informative film.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Thanksgiving (2023) 83% 2/5 EDIT “The opening vision of retail hell proves to be the best horror sequence. The later murders are just basic ghoulish fun and rarely have a Thanksgiving theme.” – The Times (UK) Nov 20, 2023 Full Review The Jester (2023) 25% 2/5 EDIT “This American horror film has arrived in Britain too late for Halloween this year, and I’m not sure its bogeyman will be well enough remembered to inspire many costumes next October. ” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 13, 2023 Full Review A Forgotten Man (2022) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Some scenes are sharply written, but others are rather hammy — a drawback for a movie that needed to seem realistic if it was going to have maximum power.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 13, 2023 Full Review Loch Ness: They Created a Monster (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “John MacLaverty’s entertaining film doesn’t have any fancy explanations for this trend, it simply enjoys the cast of characters.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 13, 2023 Full Review Give Me Pity! (2022) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Watching the whole thing might be exhausting if you aren’t devoted to its exact type of camp artiness. Still, every section is inventive and alive.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 13, 2023 Full Review The Eternal Memory (2023) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Although Maite Alberdi’s movie has a relatively light style (and a bit too much sentimental music), it makes a strong impression.” – Sunday Times (UK) Nov 13, 2023 Full Review
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