Film + Reviews
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3 out of 5 stars.Freewheeling documentary presents a compelling if somewhat rambling portrait of the hardscrabble roots of many contenders
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3 out of 5 stars.
Jericho Ridge review – shades of Rio Bravo in tense siege thriller with old-timey charm
3 out of 5 stars.Nikki Amuka-Bird gives a powerful performance as a gritty deputy defending her remote sheriff’s office from armed invaders -
3 out of 5 stars.
Ordinary Angels review – heartwarming rescue from the horrors of the US healthcare system
3 out of 5 stars.Alan Ritchson is impressive as a father who can’t pay his desperately sick child’s hospital fees, but the good-neighbour plot ignores a bigger question -
3 out of 5 stars.As a mute avenger against a dystopian tyranny – looking like a lethal Buster Keaton – the actor makes you wish the film itself was as purposeful
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3 out of 5 stars.Stephen Giddings gives a committed performance as a recovering alcoholic who’s started betting again in this often tense experimental docudrama
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3 out of 5 stars.
That They May Face the Rising Sun review – poignant rural meditation on life and friendship
3 out of 5 stars.In this adaptation of the John McGahern novel, about a middle-aged man who has returned, with his wife, to the countryside of his childhood, makeshift friendships are forged and life’s grand rhythms observed -
4 out of 5 stars.
Spy x Family Code: White review – ingenious espionage antics with special-power family
4 out of 5 stars.Popular manga characters receive their first film adaptation as they seek out a villainous colonel and an elusive dessert, brought off with great style by director Takashi Katagiri -
3 out of 5 stars.Author Félix Bruzzone fronts this haunting film about Campo de Mayo, where his mother was among tens of thousands of people who ‘disappeared’ under the dictatorship
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4 out of 5 stars.After forming a one-off criminal gang, Stevens and co come to regret kidnapping a gangster’s daughter – played by Matilda star Alisha Weir
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3 out of 5 stars.The Harder They Fall director Jaymes Samuel’s Pythonesque spin on the story of Jesus and the apostles is a wildly indulgent, irreverent blast
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3 out of 5 stars.Max is looking for the universe in which his rescuer brother Leon survives in this British animation, but some clever variations aside, it’s slow going
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3 out of 5 stars.
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver review – Zack Snyder’s bombastically fun sequel
3 out of 5 stars.The divisive director’s sci-fi follow-up is both original and derivative and will be unlikely to convert anyone, but there’s something charming about its sincerity
Malum/Hunt Her, Kill Her review – double bill of low-budget, single-location horror