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10/20
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Addition
(2024)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… just doesn’t add up.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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16/20
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Mark Demetrius
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… dialogue-driven, and touching but intermittently cerebral …
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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14.5/20
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Imagine
(2025)
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Julian Wood
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Whatever it is, it is certainly not bland or monochrome.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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14.5/20
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Primate
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… primitive but surprisingly effective.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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16/20
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Anthony O'Connor
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… propulsive, engaging and surprising.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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17.99/20
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Madly
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… a funny and mindful romance worth falling for.
Posted Jan 12, 2026
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10/20
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Bitter Desire
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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... the chintziness is simply part of the fun.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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19/20
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Julian Wood
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… an absolutely superb piece of filmmaking …
Posted Dec 25, 2025
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12/20
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Anthony O'Connor
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... like an improv class on various jungle sets.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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18/20
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Julian Wood
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… a finely calibrated work that will move and please audiences.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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12/20
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Grand Prix of Europe
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… a simple motorsports story boosted by fun animation and creativity with its set pieces.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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14/20
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Urchin
(2025)
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Pauline Adamek
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… a quietly unsettling portrait that resists neat conclusions …
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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14.5/20
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Anthony O'Connor
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… a shameless throwback to thrillers that were toey, trashy and proudly wore their underpants on their heads in enthusiastic defiance of logic, reason and restraint.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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12/20
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Mark Demetrius
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… woefully overlong for such a (ahem) paper-thin idea …
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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12/20
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David
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… more a scattershot of pebbles than a well-aimed stone …
Posted Dec 13, 2025
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17.5/20
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Christy
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… hits the sweet spot not just as a properly effective sports flick, but as a cutting statement on the damage inflicted by heteronormative force.
Posted Dec 13, 2025
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17/20
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The History of Sound
(2025)
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Julian Wood
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The strength of the film is the sensitive playing between Mescal and O’Connor.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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16/20
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SIX the Musical Live
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… a fun and occasionally traumatic frolic through the story of six slain queens who slay.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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15/20
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… a solid pick-me-up flick.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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12/20
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The Golden Spurtle
(2025)
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Pauline Adamek
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… has an undeniable warmth; its humour is mild, its sincerity unpretentious.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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10/20
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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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The bubble-blowing baby boy has seen better days.
Posted Dec 07, 2025
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15/20
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Mark Demetrius
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How much you enjoy it may depend to some extent on what you thought of Breathless (if you’ve seen it), and whether you agree with the auteur theory …
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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9/20
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Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… formless mush …
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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14.5/20
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… soothes the heart at every turn.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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14/20
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Bad Shabbos
(2024)
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Dov Kornits
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… mildly amusing and pleasant …
Posted Nov 30, 2025
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14.5/20
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Eternity
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… the strong performances, panacean sense of humour, and thorny but level-headed approach to the idea of love everlasting make up for most of the lulls.
Posted Nov 28, 2025
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15/20
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Mark Demetrius
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… worth seeing for the inherent fascination of its subject, and Russell Crowe’s performance.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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16/20
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… a great big fuzzy ball of fun.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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11/20
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The Edge
(2025)
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Annette Basile
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The respective storylines have plenty of human drama, and the friendship between the women is a strong theme, but the promise of a look inside the pressure-cooker world of elite sport is only partly fulfilled.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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15/20
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Vineyard Ablaze
(2024)
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Alireza Hatamvand
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... a film, in thought and theme, that transcends its nature as a first film; it reveals even more about Blackman’s worldview than his cinematic style.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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18/20
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… another stellar Benoit Blanc mystery, further buoyed by its heavier and darker tone and a divine performance from Josh O’Connor.
Posted Nov 23, 2025
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16/20
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Unseen Enemy
(2025)
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Erin Free
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The fight scenes are a kinetic wonder, packed with original moves and often shot in one-takes so you can see every punch and kick land…and land hard.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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18.5/20
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Ice Maiden
(2024)
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Erin Free
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A thrilling portrait of a truly extraordinary woman, Ice Maiden is documentary filmmaking at its best.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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17/20
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Heart of the Man
(2025)
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Erin Free
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...a winningly tough but profoundly sensitive tale...
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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16/20
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Twiggy
(2024)
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Julian Wood
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… a nice little film about a very nice person.
Posted Nov 20, 2025
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17.5/20
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Sisu: Road to Revenge
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… a lean, mean, gutbusting machine.
Posted Nov 20, 2025
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12/20
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
(2025)
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Alireza Hatamvand
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... no matter how humane and enlightening the film may be, it suffers to some extent from the lack of a clear cinematic form.
Posted Nov 15, 2025
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14.5/20
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Keeper
(2025)
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Anthony O'Connor
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... stylish, tense and gripping suspense ...
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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16/20
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Anthony O'Connor
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… a music-driven crowd pleaser of a flick and one of the best high octane, pure action films in recent memory.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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17/20
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Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued
(2025)
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Alireza Hatamvand
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… one can actually turn off the analytical part of the brain and simply watch the entire film only with their eyes.
Posted Nov 09, 2025
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15/20
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Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
(2025)
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Alireza Hatamvand
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... while Mad Bills to Pay isn’t flawless, it stands as a confident and quietly powerful debut for Joel Alfonso Vargas.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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18.5/20
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Songs Inside
(2024)
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Erin Free
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...Songs Inside is cinema at its most moving and life affirming.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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14.8/20
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Fwends
(2025)
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Finnlay Dall
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For every wince-inducing (and overly long) rap about crashing-out over all the ills of the world come genuine moments of reflection on what should drive us in a world where being and feeling “nothing” have become the norm.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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15/20
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Anthony O'Connor
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It zips along at a brisk pace, contains a surprising amount of pathos for a yarn set in this universe, and delivers a rollicking, sci-fi fantasy adventure with plenty of solid action and striking visuals.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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16/20
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Prime Minister
(2025)
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John Noonan
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... comforting, bittersweet and sad ...
Posted Nov 02, 2025
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14/20
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Julian Wood
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A lot of the film has the freewheeling individualistic style that Lynne Ramsay brought to her Morvern Callar (2002), but this one is much more ‘Hollywood’ in other ways.
Posted Nov 02, 2025
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9/20
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Dead of Winter
(2025)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… tries to balance thrills with self-aware silliness but ends up tipping over into the latter too many times to convince that such things are intentional.
Posted Nov 01, 2025
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15.5/20
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Pink Narcissus
(1971)
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Cain Noble-Davies
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… a beautiful work of pure male erotic fantasy …
Posted Nov 01, 2025
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17/20
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The Thing with Feathers
(2025)
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Annette Basile
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… strangely beautiful, well paced and moving …
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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12/20
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Fwends
(2025)
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Alireza Hatamvand
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... isn’t for everyone, but filled with a distinctly feminine spirit, it offers a particularly satisfying viewing experience for young women.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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