Four Hours at the Capitol (2021)
89%
5/5
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“Officer Mike Fanone arrives to help hold the tunnel, and events take a terrifying turn. Yet, against the odds, an extraordinary, almost unbelievable moment of grace occurs.” –
Financial Times
Oct 20, 2021
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Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021)
100%
5/5
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“As a slice of social history, this gripping story can never be told often enough.” –
Financial Times
Sep 8, 2021
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Reclaiming Amy (2021)
92%
3/5
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“Such a personal take is necessarily also partial. There's no Pete Doherty here, nothing from her last boyfriend, no one from the music industry... There are touching glimpses into the afterlife of a shortlived talent” –
Financial Times
Jul 27, 2021
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5/5
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“The actual music seems beside the point, but since you ask, it ranges from the ear-achingly terrible to the surprisingly tuneful.” –
Financial Times
Feb 9, 2021
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Red Penguins (2019)
96%
5/5
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“Beyond a montage of Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Bush Sr and Clinton, dates and details are fairly scant in this riotous Storyville documentary, in which horror and humour share top billing.” –
Financial Times
Dec 11, 2020
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Martha: A Picture Story (2019)
100%
4/5
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“Miles's seeming reluctance to impose a narrative on the material means her film ends up mostly being one picture after another. Still, at least the pictures are fantastic.” –
Financial Times
Dec 2, 2020
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The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (2020)
91%
4/5
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“Interspersed in the thrilling minute-by-minute drama of the hijacking are the stories of people suspected of being responsible. Sifting the implausible from the probable makes for a fascinating show.” –
Financial Times
Nov 23, 2020
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Belushi (2020)
91%
3/5
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“Belushi's story is heavy on the "what-might-have-been", which leaves much scope for fondness and generosity.” –
Financial Times
Nov 21, 2020
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Offended by Irvine Welsh (2020)
100%
4/5
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“Thoughtful contributions also emerge from singer-activist M.I.A., alert to the western bias of social media, and the novelist Nadifa Mohamed, who challenges some of Welsh's assumptions.” –
Financial Times
Nov 18, 2020
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The Night Notre Dame Burned (2020)
5/5
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“It's unbearably gripping as Paris fire chief General Gallet briefs Macron.” –
Financial Times
Nov 18, 2020
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Miscarriage: Our Story (2020)
4/5
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“The programme's broad trajectory is of happiness, crushing despair, and eventual joy, though sadly not for everyone.” –
Financial Times
Nov 4, 2020
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Anthony (2020)
100%
5/5
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“Toheeb Jimoh has to make this paragon feel like a regular lad, and pulls it off brilliantly.” –
Financial Times
Aug 3, 2020
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Climbing Blind (2020)
5/5
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“Alastair Lee's exhilarating film charts the pair's record-breaking ascent of the Old Man of Hoy, a sandstone sea stack in the Orkneys.” –
Financial Times
May 19, 2020
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Becoming (2020)
93%
5/5
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“I bet there wasn't a dry eye in the house.” –
Financial Times
May 4, 2020
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Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel (2020)
100%
5/5
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“Baddiel travels to Lithuania, where Nazi collaboration among so-called "national heroes" is still widely obfuscated. He's more concerned to understand than to condemn - even here, where denial rates remain sky-high despite laws against it.” –
Financial Times
Feb 13, 2020
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5/5
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“At the finale of the concert, the ensemble plays "Decades" in a shimmering new version - and it's gloriously uplifting.” –
Financial Times
Jan 2, 2020
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea (2019)
100%
5/5
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“Just as in the original, the whimsical exuberance finally mutates into a wistful melancholy. This feels like an instant Christmas classic.” –
Financial Times
Dec 31, 2019
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Ilana Glazer: The Planet is Burning (2020)
71%
3/5
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“It would be interesting to see her tackle more pushback than this audience is willing to give, but Glazer is naturally warm, shrewd and very New York in her timings and tunings or, as she might put it, "Fully psycho, yeah nuts, whatis that?"” –
Financial Times
Dec 30, 2019
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3/5
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“I suppose we must allow [David] Walliams his fun in characterising the journalists of Fairyland as covered in pustules and mud, and obsessed with root vegetables.” –
Financial Times
Dec 20, 2019
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A Christmas Carol (2018)
52%
4/5
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“Steven Knight induces an impressively brooding and sombre tone to proceedings in this three-part adaptation, while stripping Dickens of much of his over-fertile virtuosity. The result is Dickens for those who don't much like Dickens.” –
Financial Times
Dec 20, 2019
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4/5
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“It's not a story that requires showy acting or grandstanding performances; it's simply, starkly effective being underplayed.” –
Financial Times
Dec 19, 2019
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The Case of Sally Challen (2019)
100%
4/5
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“Ever wondered who would frequent a brothel where there are trafficked women? Wealthy car dealership owner Richard Challen was That Guy. This gripping documentary follows the course of the appeal and the specific challenges her legal team faced.” –
Financial Times
Dec 10, 2019
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The Last Faust (2018)
3/5
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“The Last Faust represents a rare chance to see a European classic, through however distorted a lens.” –
Financial Times
Dec 4, 2019
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4/5
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“There's a lot of the poetry here, perhaps a little too much, as interviewees from [Seamus] Heaney's family and friends such as fellow poet [Michael] Longley and critic Helen Vendler, read aloud their favourites.” –
Financial Times
Dec 2, 2019
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3/5
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“Academic Dr Shahidha Bari assembles the case for the prosecution but also mounts a nuanced defence of a troubled man who always felt at odds with the world.” –
Financial Times
Nov 22, 2019
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