NYFF Review: The Whistlers
For as copious and dime-a-dozen film noir crime stories were at a time, and how prolific their influence has remained over the decades, ...
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LFF Review: The King
The King is, in a word, severe. Formidably darker than Henry V adaptations in the past, it centres on a troubled Hal (Timothée ...
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LFF Review: Hope Gap
With a week to go before their 29th wedding anniversary, Edward (Bill Nighy) decides not to take his wife Grace (Annette Bening) out ...
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LFF Review: Jojo Rabbit
During the opening sequence of Jojo Rabbit, Britpop plays over a montage of Nazi paraphernalia and propaganda. Archive footage shows Hitler reaching down ...
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Review: Preacher (Season 4)
After four years of boundary-pushing entertainment, Preacher has finally reached its end. As one of the forerunners for AMC’s “cutting edge” label of ...
Review: The Spy
The Spy puts Sacha Baron Cohen in a darkly gripping, real-life tale of espionage, following the life of Egyptian-born Eli Cohen. The story ...
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Review: Joker
There’s been a lot of debate about Joker since its wild success on the festival circuit over its portrayal of a troubled, lonely, white male ...
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LFF Review: Waves
The word synaesthesia refers to a trait in which a person experiences merged senses simultaneously — such as hearing colours or seeing sound. ...
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LFF Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield
If anyone can tease out the devilish humour and absurdity from Dickens, it’s Iannucci. The creative force behind satires like The Thick of ...
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LFF Review: Lucky Grandma
A mobster flick that puts an elderly Chinese woman into a gang war in New York, Lucky Grandma was a bit of light ...
Review: Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
Tangent time! One of my favorite episodes from The Simpsons has to be the second Treehouse of Horror special that aired back in ...
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Review: First Love
When history’s overtaken all of us, I think Takashi Miike’s will be a name left standing. For one thing, the Japanese genre-master is ...