Tom Bond
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Bones and All (2022) |
The troubled romance between Maren and Lee is a highlight and the strong finale finally brings a bit of direction to the story, but it’s not enough to save this muddled film. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 12, 2022
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) |
Not just a howl of rage against the institutions that ignore the suffering of ordinary people, but a reminder of what has been lost along the way. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 12, 2022
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Blue Jean (2022) |
Rosey McEwen is phenomenal in the lead role as her life collapses around her like a slo-mo car crash she’s powerless to prevent. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 06, 2022
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Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) |
There is something interesting to be found in Iñárritu’s premise, in a world where journalism has become corrupted by the growing need to monetise in order to stay alive. But it is explored too rarely to really leave an impact. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 06, 2022
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Living (2022) |
The film lives or dies by its lead performance, and Bill Nighy is on supreme form, burying his natural charisma behind a socially contracted politeness and the weight of decades of bureaucracy. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 01, 2022
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White Noise (2022) |
Baumbach captures this mundane horror and the rising sense of dread brilliantly, in his most ambitious directorial effort yet. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 01, 2022
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S...house (2020) |
Freshman Year, the debut feature from writer, director and lead, Cooper Raiff, shows promise with a distinctive perspective on the college/uni experience, but ultimately falls back on disappointing romcom clichés. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Oct 01, 2021
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The Falls (2021) |
Here, director Chung Mong-hong is great at capturing the mundane anxiety of self-isolation. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 13, 2021
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Official Competition (2021) |
The direction, and particularly the production design from Alain Bainée, are superb, bringing life to what could be a repetitive sequence of sketches. But the main trio's performances are the highlight. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 13, 2021
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The Lost Daughter (2021) |
Gyllenhaal demonstrates impressive control for a debut director, instantly reassuring the viewer that she knows what she's doing. But she drops the ball at the end of this quietly heart-breaking drama, with the final 20 minutes begging to be cut. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 13, 2021
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021) |
Ultimately this is Amirpour's show, directed with verve and confidence. It's not a complicated story but she tells it well, delivering one of the most purely entertaining pop thrillers around. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 09, 2021
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Spencer (2021) |
Kristen Stewart is a fantastic choice for this Diana, superb at conveying emotion through small expressions. She radiates charisma befitting the woman herself, with a little help from the luminous lens of Claire Mathon. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 07, 2021
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Last Night in Soho (2021) |
Wright has always been quietly political, digging at small-town conservatism and the misery of conformity. This script, written with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, is his most explicit yet, resolving into a howl of despair. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 07, 2021
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The Hand of God (2021) |
It's completely understandable for Sorrentino to dramatise the tragedy of his teenage years in this way, but it's hard to escape the feeling that The Hand of God would be more powerful if it was less faithful. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 07, 2021
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The Inner Cage (2021) |
You never feel like [director Leonardo di Costanzo]'s bouncing through plot, setting up dominoes for later dramatic moments. Instead everything feels organic, with the camera really listening to every character and their troubles. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 07, 2021
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The Card Counter (2020) |
With The Card Counter, Schrader returns to old archetypes and styles, but with less success. Isaac is captivating as he walks a line of methodical madness, but the rest of the film is too clumsy to match its early promise. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 03, 2021
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The Power of the Dog (2021) |
A masterful excavation of the cracks and wrinkles of masculinity, and the ways that men hide from themselves in order to conform. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 02, 2021
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Parallel Mothers (2021) |
There is no attempt from Almodóvar to moralise on his characters' failings and mistakes. He understands that sometimes people do the wrong things for very valid, human reasons. What matters is whether we do the right thing in the end. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 02, 2021
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Mank (2020) |
If the normally flawless Fincher manages to prove one thing here, it's that creating a complex, entertaining and tragic film about a complex, entertaining and tragic man is a lot harder than Citizen Kane made it look. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Dec 08, 2020
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Sunset (2018) |
Sunset is so messy, long and confusing that you can't help wonder if Nemes is just a one-trick pony. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Dec 02, 2020
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David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) |
Byrne's claim that we, and America, are a work in progress with the potential to change for the better has never felt more hopeful or possible. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Oct 19, 2020
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One Man and His Shoes (2020) |
It's akin to the '90s pearl-clutching that tried to blame violent video games and gangsta rap for society's ills and a desperate attempt to inject drama into an otherwise pedestrian doc. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Oct 15, 2020
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Eyimofe (This is My Desire) (2020) |
Eyimofe reveals that one of the most potent costs of poverty is constant labour, whether it be physical or emotional. You can't just pay someone to fix your fridge, you have to do it yourself, or beg someone else for help. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Oct 12, 2020
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Les misérables (2019) |
Les Misérables is an urgent and important testimony on the clash between the state and its poorest citizens, and although Ly never manages to make any one character stand out, his broader message is vital. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 03, 2020
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The King of Staten Island (2020) |
It would have been better 20 minutes shorter... but that doesn't detract much from his most moving, insightful and mature film yet, led by a breakout performance from Pete Davidson. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 17, 2020
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Knives Out (2019) |
Family feuds are only fun when you're watching them, and this one is a blast -- a smart, funny ensemble cast delivering a surprisingly poignant kick in the tail. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Nov 26, 2019
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Guest of Honour (2019) |
Guest of Honour is a bizarre, lazy thriller worth watching only by die-hard Thewlis fans. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 10, 2019
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Saturday Fiction (2019) |
Spy thrillers are one genre where it's very easy to have too much of a good thing. They're powered by secrets and twists, but Saturday Fiction is burdened with too much of the former at the start, and too much of the latter by the end. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 10, 2019
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Babyteeth (2019) |
Babyteeth presents two exciting new voices in [Rita] Kalnejais and [Shannon] Murphy, both of whom show a rare skill for combining comedy and tragedy that will make them ones to watch. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 09, 2019
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Rialto (2019) |
Vaughan-Lawlor is the real star, with his sweet, sympathetic and loving performance the heart of the film. - Little White Lies
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| Posted Sep 06, 2019
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The King (2019) |
The King could do with losing a few minutes of its runtime, and offering more complex characters beyond Henry, but this is an unexpected triumph for such an ambitious adaptation. Long live The King. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 04, 2019
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About Endlessness (2019) |
Watching [Roy] Andersson make meaning out of such meagre ingredients is like watching a magic trick turning dust into diamonds. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 04, 2019
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Giants Being Lonely (2019) |
[Grear] Patterson almost ruins all his subtlety with a howler of a final shot, but he has proved he's one to watch with this ambitious and compelling debut. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 04, 2019
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Effetto domino (2019) |
Effetto Domino find this ingenuity too rarely to truly impress, but this is a fiery, tragic tale about how fragile our economy really is. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Sep 04, 2019
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Pain and Glory (2019) |
Pain and Glory is a karmic triumph, using memory and chance to champion the idea that a good life, kindly lived, always has its rewards. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Aug 20, 2019
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Good Boys (2019) |
Good Boys is 70 minutes of sweet, funny comedy finished off by a few brutal, bittersweet scenes looking ahead. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Aug 19, 2019
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Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) |
Both [Jon] Watts' Spidey films have shown a Nolan-esque eye for developing a realist version of traditionally larger-than-life characters, so it will be intriguing to see where the series goes after a mic-drop of a post-credits sting. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jul 02, 2019
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Support the Girls (2018) |
All these stresses reach boiling point in a fantastic few final scenes led by [Regina] Hall. Her silent reactions and then her screams show just how toxic and depressing her industry is, far more powerfully than any words. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jul 01, 2019
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Yesterday (2019) |
[Richard] Curtis' script is warm and fun, spiced up by a great scene-stealing performance from Kate McKinnon, but it often feels like a first draft. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jul 01, 2019
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The Zero Theorem (2013) |
Its ideas are fascinating and the cast have a great chemistry, but the script is not sharp enough to match Twelve Monkeys or Brazil. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 17, 2019
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Spring (2014) |
Death leads to dubious love in this endlessly inventive delight that pays no regard to traditional genre boundaries - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 15, 2019
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Mistaken for Strangers (2013) |
Brilliant when exploring the creative process and the internal struggle any artist faces to make something good despite their doubts and fears. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 15, 2019
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Listen Up Philip (2014) |
Raw, audacious humour and excellent performances from Schwarztman and Pryce that find humanity in characters who don't deserve it. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 15, 2019
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Shrew's Nest (2014) |
De Santiago and Silva are strong, but a scattergun performance from Gómez, a clichéd score from Joan Valent, and a weak script let this film down. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 15, 2019
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) |
The first half is dull and predictable, but Dawn just about earns its stars with a flurry of shocks and showdowns in the second half. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 15, 2019
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Dinosaur 13 (2014) |
Provoking outrage at injustice, Dinosaur 13 is an emotional and inspiring watch for any viewer. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 11, 2019
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) |
Joyous, thrilling and masterful in its combination of two different cinematic worlds. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 11, 2019
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Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) |
There's nothing terrible about Half of a Yellow Sun, but not much good either. A powerful novel has been neutered. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 11, 2019
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The Raid 2 (2014) |
An unfocused opening is more than redeemed by a pulsating, unflinching final hour. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 11, 2019
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The Trip to Italy (2014) |
An unadulterated joy. - One Room With A View
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| Posted Jun 08, 2019
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