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Cath Clarke

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State of Statelessness (2024) 3/5 EDIT “A deep and desperately sad mood hangs over the entire project.” – Guardian Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Pike River (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “The story is told with restraint, in meticulous detail -- possibly too much detail -- without any Erin Brockovich-type feelgood emotion, never losing sight of the heartbreak and devastation.” – Guardian Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Another World (2025) 3/5 EDIT “The movie is about how people ruin everything with their destructiveness, but also about the beauty of the human heart. It’s so inventive and imaginative that I wanted to love it more, but in the end found it a little bit psychologically uninvolving.” – Guardian Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Never has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this animation from Japan. ” – Guardian Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Animalia (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “By the end, Animalia is more Terrence Malick than apocalyptic... How satisfying that feels is a matter of personal taste, but this is undoubtedly an intriguing, eccentric and distinctive debut.” – Guardian Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Reputation (2024) 3/5 EDIT “For a film put together on what looks like a minuscule budget, it gets a considerable amount done.” – Guardian Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Belén (2025) 95% 3/5 EDIT “The film is essentially a legal procedural: solid, mostly entertaining and occasionally gripping.” – Guardian Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Sketch (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “This is a family film with an IQ higher than the average.” – Guardian Oct 21, 2025 Full Review It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This (2023) 3/5 EDIT “It’s all fairly entertaining until the scary stuff starts happening. As if the movie were coated in Gore-Tex, the frights simply don’t permeate the surface.” – Guardian Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “This film really is a sunny delight as the weather turns cold.” – Guardian Oct 15, 2025 Full Review The Twits (2025) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Any of Dahl’s gruesome sense of fun is obliterated by a bulldozing message of empathy and kindness... This is vile and revolting in all the wrong ways.” – Guardian Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Iron Ladies (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Forty years on, the hatred for Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady and the woman whose government defeated the strike, is still raw: “She was one iron lady, we were hundreds.”” – Guardian Oct 13, 2025 Full Review The Partisan (2024) 3/5 EDIT “It would be more or less forgettable but for an intense, seductive lead performance by Morgane Polanski, letting rip with her character’s tortured dark side.” – Guardian Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Des jours meilleurs (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Better Days is for the most part a modest, honest-feeling drama, insightful about shame and stigma, particularly for female alcoholics, though it is let down a bit by some over-the-top supporting acting. ” – Guardian Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Sovereign (2025) 95% 3/5 EDIT “This is muscular stuff, with a firm grip on your attention.” – Guardian Sep 11, 2025 Full Review My Bigfoot Life (2025) 3/5 EDIT “For me, the real story of the film is the wonderful Barnett family. Daniel’s mum Gemma says that they’ve always embraced Daniel’s passions, and their devotion is a joy to watch.” – Guardian Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Vice Is Broke (2024) 60% 3/5 EDIT “This isn’t meant unkindly, but Vice Is Broke will be essential viewing for anybody who ever worked there, with its details about who had what job title and when. ” – Guardian Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Mother Vera (2024) 4/5 EDIT “It is film of stillness, long, long takes and careful framing -- and would look at home playing on the walls of an art gallery. But Mother Vera, with its intense, luminous portrait of a woman, is not an austere art film.” – Guardian Aug 28, 2025 Full Review The Regulars (2025) 4/5 EDIT “On paper, that sounds annoyingly smug and self-conscious. But The Regulars turns out to be sweet and charming, and absolutely hilarious in places, with the easygoing, natural feel of a Richard Linklater film.” – Guardian Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Grand Prix of Europe (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It’s a perfectly serviceable plotline, and unlike so many animated films for under-eights, with their needlessly complicated stories, it even makes sense. ” – Guardian Aug 19, 2025 Full Review The Ceremony (2024) 3/5 EDIT “As the film becomes more ruminative, it does start to sag; Ihere’s one dream sequence too many and far too much screen time given to a ram, as magnificent as he is. It’s a slightly unsatisfactory conclusion to an impressive film.” – Guardian Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Treading Water (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Gill gives a very good performance, his eyes telling the story of Danny’s shame and humiliation. ” – Guardian Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Holy Cow (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Faveau gives an amazingly subtle performance; Totone doesn’t say much but his fragility and complexity are all there, humour too in the little shrug of a shoulder. ” – Guardian Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Super Charlie (2024) 2/5 EDIT “Poor Super Charlie is destined to be no one’s favourite child.” – Guardian Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Malqueridas (2023) 3/5 EDIT “In the end, the film remains opaque and elusive in ways that audiences (particularly outside the country) might find frustrating.” – Guardian Aug 12, 2025 Full Review
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