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4/5
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The Eight Mountains
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Moving as slowly as a glacial melt, this soulful slant on individual destiny plays out primarily in the unspoken.
Posted Nov 30, 2023
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3/5
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The Royal Hotel
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Like pickled eggs and breakfast schooners, the ethos of hard-core drinking tends to be an acquired taste.
Posted Nov 24, 2023
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4/5
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Revoir Paris
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Director Alice Winocour’s intimate testimony to courage in the wake of the 2015 Paris Bataclan bloodbath is as unyielding as it needs to be.
Posted Nov 09, 2023
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4/5
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Blue Jean
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Jean’s self-reckoning is sensitivity in close-up.
Posted Nov 03, 2023
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3.5/5
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Caravaggio's Shadow
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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For the painter Caravaggio, art is a fiery way of life in these creatively licensed 1600s.
Posted Oct 26, 2023
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4/5
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The Origin of Evil
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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The loopy reveals are progressively anarchic, held together by a cool ensemble cast.
Posted Oct 21, 2023
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4/5
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Shayda
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Moving on is an act of will for an Iranian woman breaking free from domestic abuse.
Posted Oct 13, 2023
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4/5
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The Crime Is Mine
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Murder is a fizzy dish for director François Ozon and his chicly energised cast.
Posted Oct 12, 2023
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4/5
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Last Film Show
(2021)
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Andiee Paviour
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How awesome it is to be swept away by cinema, with the totality of which only children and fanatics are capable.
Posted Sep 14, 2023
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3/5
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Everybody Loves Jeanne
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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A depressed French woman plays duelling banjos with her batty yet strikingly stylised thoughts.
Posted Sep 07, 2023
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4/5
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Past Lives
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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The bittersweet reconnecting of childhood soulmates wraps an unrealised love story in unanswerable questions.
Posted Aug 31, 2023
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4/5
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BlackBerry
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Director Matt Johnson’s nutty slice of tech history is a crack-up at the start. But nobody is laughing when the BlackBerry’s nuts and bolts come undone.
Posted Aug 17, 2023
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4/5
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Sanctuary
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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A power struggle between a dominatrix and her over-it client is a stripping back of layers, piece by ragged piece.
Posted Aug 17, 2023
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4/5
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Godland
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Two words: rug up. With its bone-seeping cold and torrential waters, 19th-century Iceland is vastly unforgiving.
Posted Aug 17, 2023
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4/5
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Sisu
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Writer-director Jalmari Helander’s blood-and-guts revenge fantasy is the history revision you never knew you needed.
Posted Jul 29, 2023
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4/5
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Barbie
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Gerwigland is a hectic pastel trip.
Posted Jul 21, 2023
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3.5/5
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Sugar and Stars
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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If desserts are your favourite dish, this is one course you won’t want to miss.
Posted Jul 20, 2023
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4/5
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Other People's Children
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Love may not be all you need when your bf’s little daughter enters the equation.
Posted Jul 06, 2023
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3.5/5
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The Ordinaries
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Art-as-life is the proving ground of first-time director Sophie Linnenbaum's quirky German fable.
Posted Jul 06, 2023
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4/5
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Driving Madeleine
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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A taxi ride across Paris is a sweetly nuanced journey within. (With food as a bonus. Naturellement.)
Posted Jun 22, 2023
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3/5
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Bank of Dave
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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The good guys are principled and real, the baddies are amoral snobs, and shades of grey need not apply.
Posted Jun 01, 2023
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3/5
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Renfield
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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As a super-deranged Count Dracula, the concept of too much is meat, drink and dessert to a Gothically embellished Nicolas Cage.
Posted May 26, 2023
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4/5
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Saint Omer
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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In a finely crafted case of truth as perception, director Alice Diop leaves the obvious wide open.
Posted May 25, 2023
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4/5
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The Blue Caftan
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Grace and generosity are the life force of Maryam Touzani’s lyrical reflection on love.
Posted May 18, 2023
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3/5
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November
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Taking the pulse of a pointless war is a tonally unrelenting slog.
Posted May 11, 2023
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3/5
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Infinity Pool
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Leave it to a Cronenberg to turn a deluxe resort into a death-dealing cloner playground.
Posted May 11, 2023
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4/5
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The Survival of Kindness
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Writer-director Rolf de Heer isn’t messing around in a stark anatomy of racial hatred.
Posted May 04, 2023
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4/5
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Mascarade
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Two users go for broke in a ritzy French caper with bite.
Posted May 04, 2023
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3/5
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A Good Person
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Every one of these characters is up to their necks in a mother lode of woe that makes perversely compelling viewing.
Posted Apr 20, 2023
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4/5
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The Innocent
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Louis Garrel’s zesty souffle is a charmer from first caprice to last.
Posted Apr 13, 2023
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3/5
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The Pope's Exorcist
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Russell Crowe is fabulous as exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth in director Julius Avery’s lurid horror show.
Posted Apr 07, 2023
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4/5
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John Wick: Chapter 4
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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Revisiting the world of hitman John Wick is like touching base with an old buddy who you do not under any circumstances want to cross.
Posted Mar 23, 2023
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4/5
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Living
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Bill Nighy does British reticence with a beating heart in a modest charmer about making a difference.
Posted Mar 16, 2023
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4/5
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Pearl
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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As nubile worry Pearl, Mia Goth is a textbook definition of torment.
Posted Mar 16, 2023
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4/5
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Till
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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As a grieving Mamie Till, Danielle Deadwyler takes immersive ownership of a mother’s primal pain.
Posted Mar 09, 2023
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4/5
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To Leslie
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Andrea Riseborough is a lit fuse as a lost soul inflamed by booze.
Posted Mar 09, 2023
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4/5
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Empire of Light
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Olivia Colman brings her distinctive perception as a marginalised woman battling psychological demons.
Posted Mar 03, 2023
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4/5
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Aftersun
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Sadness is an all-pervasive threat in a paradoxically lovely debut from writer-director Charlotte Wells, based in part on her life.
Posted Feb 26, 2023
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4/5
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Women Talking
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Eternal banishment or hell on Earth? Mennonite women stare down a life-changing choice.
Posted Feb 16, 2023
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4/5
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Close
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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In his Cannes Grand Jury Prize–winning drama, film-maker Lukas Dhont quietly deconstructs the fine distinctions of loss.
Posted Feb 16, 2023
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4/5
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Huesera: The Bone Woman
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Pregnancy is a nightmarish enemy for a woman tormented by doubt.
Posted Feb 13, 2023
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4/5
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The Son
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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The best intentions are a deathtrap in a shattering family drama whose closing scene is indelible.
Posted Feb 09, 2023
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4/5
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Corsage
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Vicky Krieps is brilliantly rebellious as a 19th-century Austrian empress who refuses to play royal ball.
Posted Feb 09, 2023
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4/5
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Knock at the Cabin
(2023)
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Andiee Paviour
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When inaction is a form of choice, everyone in its orbit will suffer on a streamlined ride through hell from M. Night Shyamalan.
Posted Feb 03, 2023
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4/5
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The Whale
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Brendan Fraser stretches every limit in director Darren Aronofsky’s painful exploration of physical entrapment.
Posted Feb 02, 2023
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4/5
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Tár
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Cate Blanchett is repellently alive in a chilling confirmation of the corruptive reach of power.
Posted Jan 26, 2023
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4/5
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M3GAN
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Who isn’t a sucker for a homicidal robot doll?
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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3/5
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Emily
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Author Emily Brontë gets a user-friendly romantic makeover.
Posted Jan 12, 2023
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4/5
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The Fabelmans
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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In a lovingly composed remembrance, Steven Spielberg turns experience into an art form.
Posted Jan 07, 2023
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3/5
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White Noise
(2022)
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Andiee Paviour
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Dread of death is a bumpy ride in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s fast track to bedlam.
Posted Jan 01, 2023
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