REVIEWS
The Night Manager
This high-budget BBC/AMC revival of John Le Carré’s 1993 novel updates the action, switching from the...
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The Anarchists
Tahar Rahim and Adèle Exarchopoulos bring a brooding sizzle to Elie Wajeman’s finely crafted...
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The Club
The Club: Film of the Week Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated NO centres...
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Speed Sisters
Speed Sisters: burning rubber with Palestine’s girl racers This documentary follows the drivers and...
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Welcome to Leith
Only in America? This everyday story of white supremacists and wilderness dwellers is littered with...
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Farewell My Concubine
Chen Kaige ’s visually stunning and emotionally engaging epic is a sweeping exploration of friendship,...
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Doomwatch
The groundbreaking classic BBC sci-fi series Doomwatch aired in 1970. Although in huge demand, it has...
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Deutschland 83
German-American husband and wife team Anna and Joerg Winger’s suspenseful, fast-paced thriller is...
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Something Different/A Bagful of Fleas
Even though Vera Chytilová is reckoned to be one of the very greatest female film directors,...
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Ran: Film of the Week
Akira Kurosawa’s 1985 epic, Ran, relocating King Lear to 16th century Japan, returns to UK screens this...
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Black Mountain Poets: a comedy with rhythm and rhyme
Black Mountain Poets, an improvised British comedy follows two petty criminal sisters (Dolly Wells and...
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Eddie the Eagle: a Brit crowdpleaser that takes flight
Dexter Fletcher’s follow-up to Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith celebrates the enthusiastic amateur...
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Papusza: poet’s life makes for stodgy drama
The Polish biopic Papusza offers monochrome scenes from the life of the poet Bronislawa Wajs, born to...
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Victoria: a non-stop German thriller
Much admired on the festival circuit, Victoria, this Berlin-set heist thriller boasts a near-unique USP:...
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The Club: Film of the Week
Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated NO centres on five priests sequestered in...
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Speed Sisters: burning rubber with Palestine’s girl racers
This documentary follows the drivers and support team of the Arab world’s first all-female racing team as...
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Welcome to Me: Kristen wigs out in curious dramedy
A hit at last year’s Sundance festival, this comedy-drama finds Kristen Wiig playing a recluse whose life...
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Disorder: punchy thriller from an impressive new talent
Disorder. This French thriller sees troubled ex-military type Matthias Schoenaerts handed the tricky new...
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Court: Indian procedural raises valid objections
This satirical legal drama uses the trial of a Mumbai protest singer accused of inciting a fan’s suicide to...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2: a hectic renewing of vows
This sequel to 2001’s colossal sleeper hit finds the Portokalos family reunited as two more of their...
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The Pearl Button: Film of the Week
The Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman follows up 2010’s arthouse hit Nostalgia for the Light with another...
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Oliver Reed stars in Debussy, by Ken Russell. The Great Composers is a triple bill of documentary-style BBC dramas from film-maker Ken...
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