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FILM REVIEWS


THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE
Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield are fine as central televangelist couple but this biopic offers nothing new. Don't be fooled by the...
May 7, 2022


DRIVE MY CAR
For all the flaws of Drive My Car, the movie also has major assets, foremost a brilliant central performance by Hidetoshi Nishijima. If...
Mar 13, 2022


KING RICHARD
This biopic of Venus and Serena Williams’ father is a perfectly fine yet frustratingly sanitised movie, elevated by a handful of...
Feb 4, 2022


LICORICE PIZZA
Licorice Pizza drags in places, indulges in star cameos and hasn’t got the most engaging of stories, but it’s never not entertaining....
Jan 7, 2022


THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
The Tragedy of Macbeth might have worked better if Joel Coen had used the same rigorous stripped-down approach to Shakespeare's text as...
Jan 5, 2022


THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
The Worst Person in the World weaves ideas and themes anyone will relate to into an always entertaining, never dull whole. Anchored by a...
Dec 19, 2021


THE HAND OF GOD
If The Hand of God was supposed to be a very personal film for director Paolo Sorrentino, you never feel it. Once again nodding and...
Dec 15, 2021


WEST SIDE STORY
I was totally won over by the sheer cinematic joy Spielberg and his team conjure up during 2.5 blissful hours. For the majority of the...
Dec 10, 2021


PARALLEL MOTHERS (MADRES PARALELAS)
The newest fillm by Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar is essentially a filmed play that lays bare the flaws in the director's recent...
Dec 8, 2021


THE POWER OF THE DOG
Individual scenes brim with tension and understated emotions yet they often feel strangely detached from the main narrative. Make no...
Dec 1, 2021
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