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4/5
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Jason Blake
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Richard Linklater’s irresistibly immersive film follows the shooting of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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3.5/5
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Jason Blake
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There's a hefty sense of purpose to James Vanderbilt's courtroom drama, but glossy conventions make it seem lightweight.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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3.5/5
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Twiggy
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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Still, you can’t help admiring Twiggy’s resilience and ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ attitude, and it’s a little refreshing to sit through a story of celebrity that doesn’t require you to watch someone wallow in its pitfalls.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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4/5
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Familiar Touch
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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This exquisite American film absorbs the viewer in the shifting moods and minutiae of a woman's assimilation into aged care.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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3.5/5
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Dead of Winter
(2025)
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Jason Blake
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It may not reshape the action-thriller tropes, but it’s smartly shot and gives Emma Thompson a role to relish.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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4/5
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Vermiglio
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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The rituals of village life are vividly captured in this austere yet arresting drama set in the Italian Alps.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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3/5
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Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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A handsome tribute rather than a definitive study. It may inspire, but it won’t surprise.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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3.5/5
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Le fil
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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Co-written, directed and starring Daniel Auteuil, this courtroom drama unfolds sedately until its chilling coda.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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4/5
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Quisling: The Final Days
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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A satisfyingly complex film about the downfall of Norway’s infamous... head of state, Vidkun Quisling.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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The Mountain
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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Shot on location in the Icelandic highlands outside Reykjavík, it’s a visually arresting film, too, with Kjartansdóttir creating space for the viewer to breathe, even as the characters struggle to do the same.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Friend
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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It’s hard not to fall for Naomi Watts and canine actor Bing in this friendlier version of the bestselling novel.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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4/5
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Souleymane's Story
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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This tightly focused film, directed and co-written by Boris Lojkine, is a riveting portrait of a young man clinging to hope.
Posted May 20, 2025
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4/5
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Monsieur Aznavour
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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For those who only know Charles Aznavour as one of those artists whose records grace op shops everywhere, this classy biopic is an eye- and ear-opener.
Posted May 07, 2025
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4/5
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Dying
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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An unflinching examination of family ties, loyalties and responsibilities focused on an orchestra conductor in the jaws of the Gen X crunch.
Posted Apr 21, 2025
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4/5
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The Count of Monte Cristo
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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A splendid French drama delivers in all the required areas – action, romance, scenery, costume – with intelligence and heart.
Posted Mar 24, 2025
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4/5
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Grand Tour
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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An enchanting if sometimes inscrutable adventure.
Posted Feb 05, 2025
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Daniel O'Brien
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Mangold’s highly recommended film captures the ephemeral and poetic spirit of a true rolling stone.
Posted Jan 22, 2025
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4/5
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Conclave
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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This juicy election drama takes viewers into the inner sanctum of the Vatican at a time when the whole world is watching.
Posted Dec 03, 2024
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3.5/5
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Lee
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Winslet is always worth the price of admission and she's at her most gritty and powerful here and she's backed strongly by Alexander Skarsgård.
Posted Oct 24, 2024
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3/5
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The Moogai
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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Jon Bell's First Nations suspense drama is disquieting at times, but not scary enough, despite its top cast.
Posted Oct 24, 2024
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3.5/5
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The Critic
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Ian McKellen excels in this twisty-turning tale of a vitriolic theatre critic who will stop at nothing to stay in the limelight.
Posted Sep 30, 2024
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3/5
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Comandante
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Submarine movie jollies aside, Italy's Das Boot feels weighed down by a sense of purpose lying outside of the drama itself.
Posted Sep 18, 2024
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3/5
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Midas Man
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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Midas Man fumbles a golden opportunity to tell us what we don't know about the tragically short life of Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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4/5
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Thelma
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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The elderly vigilante genre is rarely as charming as Josh Margolin’s movie starring June Squibb.
Posted Aug 24, 2024
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3.5/5
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Last Summer
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Immoral or understandable? Catherine Breillat leaves it up to you to decide.
Posted Aug 07, 2024
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4/5
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The Teacher Who Promised the Sea
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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The Teacher who Promised the Sea is a tenderly realised and strikingly well shot film anchored by a fine performance by Auquer, whose appealing portrayal makes us bond to Antonio very quickly.
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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3/5
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Brats
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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What Brats does well, however, is reacquaint you with some very good films – especially those of the late John Hughes – and to the idea that this period of moviemaking was unique for a more nuanced foregrounding of the late-teen experience...
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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3.5/5
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I Am: Celine Dion
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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I Am is quite the rollercoaster. A worthwhile watch.
Posted Jul 05, 2024
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4/5
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Perfect Days
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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The German auteur turns his lens on Tokyo for what is, in part, a celebration of the city’s excellent public toilets.
Posted Jun 13, 2024
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4/5
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National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
(2024)
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Jason Blake
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A work of theatre about the theatre – its travails, agonies, ghosts and pleasures – that works exceptionally well on screen.
Posted Jun 13, 2024
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4/5
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A Silence
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Based on real-life events, this meticulously crafted, deeply unsettling mystery thriller features stellar performances.
Posted Jun 13, 2024
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3.5/5
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Divertimento
(2022)
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Jason Blake
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A winning central performance and the music of Ravel grace this appealing biopic about a conductor trying to beat the odds stacked against her.
Posted Jun 13, 2024
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3.5/5
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Freud's Last Session
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Anthony Hopkins continues his strong, late-career run of films (which includes the recent One Life, Netflix’s The Two Popes and his Oscar-winning turn in The Father) in this sedate but engrossing adaptation of Mark St Germain’s stage play.
Posted Apr 26, 2024
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4/5
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The Zone of Interest
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Perhaps English writer-director Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest will prove just as memorable [as Schindler’s List] -- not for what it shows (which is comparatively little, hence its M rating), but for what it leaves us to imagine.
Posted Feb 23, 2024
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5/5
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Fallen Leaves
(2023)
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Chris Reid
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In paying homage to Finnish culture, Fallen Leaves might prove to be a valedictory statement from one of the world's great auteurs. Like all great films, Fallen Leaves makes us ponder deeply our philosophy of life.
Posted Feb 14, 2024
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4.5/5
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Maestro
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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As director and lead actor, Cooper demonstrated his dual-duty skills admirably in his 2018 remake of A Star Is Born. In Maestro, he takes it to another level in a film that crackles with inventive energy.
Posted Dec 21, 2023
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4.5/5
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The Blue Caftan
(2022)
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Clive Paget
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It’s also a love letter to the movies, laced with nostalgia for a simpler, analogue age... The rise of British nationalism in the Thatcher era lends grit and gives the drama a kick in the pants whenever it threatens to topple over into sentiment.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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4/5
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The Blue Caftan
(2022)
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Jason Blake
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Woven with exquisite care and respect, Maryam Touzani’s Arabic language drama depicts a love triangle of a middle-aged couple and a young man who works in their small tailoring business in a Moroccan town.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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3.5/5
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One Fine Morning
(2022)
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Jason Blake
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Happily, this heartfelt film from Mia Hansen-Løve offers something of a ray of hope in its story of a widowed single mum, her relationship with a married scientist, and the stresses she faces managing the welfare of her mentally declining father.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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4.5/5
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Close
(2022)
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Jason Blake
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Utterly gripping and wrenchingly sad.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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4/5
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Alcarràs
(2022)
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Jason Blake
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It’s taken a long time to get to general release, but Alcarràs is very much worth the wait.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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5/5
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Godland
(2022)
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Jason Blake
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Set in the harsh climes of 19th-century Iceland, writer-director Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland is a flinty yet majestic drama of colonial arrogance, faith, human frailty and photography.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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3/5
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The Miracle Club
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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You come away from Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Miracle Club not at all dissatisfied with the ride, but also with a sense that there’s a harder, darker and more necessary film beneath its sentimental surface.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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3.5/5
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BlackBerry
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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[It's] a tale of what happens when pals become business partners, when smart little companies get into bed with big dumb ones, and what happens to game-changers when the rules are been thrown out the window by someone else.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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3.5/5
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Scrapper
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Downbeat but uplifting.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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3.5/5
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Biosphere
(2022)
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Jason Blake
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There’s a touch of the old Twilight Zone to this unusual entry into the canon of apocalypse survival movies.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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4/5
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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Meticulously assembled from film clips, news footage and interviews with former co-stars and intimates, Stephen Kijak’s documentary All That Heaven Allowed is everything you already knew about the Hollywood actor Rock Hudson and probably a little more.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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3.5/5
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A Haunting in Venice
(2023)
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Jamie Bernthal-Hooker
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Reynolds leads Poirot to a Halloween party in a decaying and haunted palazzo, which provides the perfect backdrop for a spooky, jump-filled series of incidents.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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4/5
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My Name is Alfred Hitchcock
(2022)
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Jason Blake
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Cousins’ idiosyncratic narration is absent this time. Instead, he has The Master of Suspense himself do the talking, over two hours’ worth of masterfully curated and connected clips.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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4.5/5
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Napoleon
(2023)
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Jason Blake
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War is hell, of course, in Ridley Scott’s biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte. But for viewers of this film, safe in their cinema seats, it is also inescapably magnificent.
Posted Dec 08, 2023
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