What might you say if you came face to face with the parents of the child who killed your child?
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The Humans (2021)
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This very confident directing debut from writer Stephen Karam has star power that will pull many an unsuspecting viewer into an inexorably bleak story.
Continue readingNavalny (2022)
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This is just the kind of documentary you want to watch. It’s got intrigue, a charismatic protagonist and it captures real-life drama unfolding on camera.
Continue readingGive Me Pity! (2022)
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The Integrity of Joseph Chambers (2022)
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I loved Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) and he again examines a crisis of masculinity in rural America, albeit through a simpler tale.
Continue readingMona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)
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My expectations were high for this second feature from A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night director Ana Lily Amirpour.
Continue readingWatcher (2022)
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Chloe Okuno’s debut feature is a taut and tense thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat.
Continue readingThe United States of America (2022)
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I love having an unexpected film experience. James Benning gives us an alphabetical tour of the states, territories and districts of the USA that is part meditation and part lexophile’s delight with a paraprosdokian sting in the tail (look it up).
Continue readingBodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
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This Gen Z horror comedy is bound to become a pop culture favourite with its witty and quotable dialogue and great blend of gore and laughs.
Continue readingThree Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
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This is a lush and enthralling ‘fairytale’ based on A S Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” and director by Australian legend George Miller.
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