Film + Reviews
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3 out of 5 stars.The Max adaptation of John Green’s 2017 novel ably handles the interior struggles of OCD, if not the threads of its plot
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3 out of 5 stars.
ISS review – Ariana DeBose shines in tense if contrived International Space Station thriller
3 out of 5 stars.DeBose plays a research scientist caught between increasingly at odds astronauts and cosmonauts in Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s credulity-stretching sci-fi drama -
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Wendy Ide's film of the weekChallengers review – Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance
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3 out of 5 stars.
ISS review – Ariana DeBose is ace as third world war sparks space station survival race
3 out of 5 stars.DeBose’s brilliant rookie astronaut navigates this moderately tense thriller about US and Russian crew fighting as Earth blazes below
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2 out of 5 stars.
In the Land of Saints and Sinners review – Liam Neeson finds cowboy spirit in Donegal
2 out of 5 stars.Kerry Condon plays a potty-mouthed IRA gang leader and Neeson is the quiet antihero in this action thriller set at the height of the Troubles
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Welcome Villain Films presents two fright-fests, but tired tricks, bad acting and some head-banging repetition leads to hackneyed hokum
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2 out of 5 stars.
Quintessentially Irish review – Pierce Brosnan weighs in on scattergun study of Irishness
2 out of 5 stars.Brosnan to … Bolt? Frank Mannion’s follow-up documentary to Quintessentially British presents a grab bag of interviews – some with distinctly un-Irish personalities -
4 out of 5 stars.Musician and film-maker Baloji’s complex story about a Belgian-Congolese man who brings his white wife home to DRC to meet the family is bold and tonally elusive
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3 out of 5 stars.A seriously intentioned drama about a young Kurdish woman who feels she has to surgically ‘restore’ her virginity before her wedding