Alex Heeney reviews Ken Loach's film The Old Oak, a warm, heartbreaking film that may not reach the highs of Loach's best work, but it still energizes you to …
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Film Review: Wicked Little Letters is predictable fun
Thea Sharrock's Wicked Little Letters is the kind of film you can enjoy with your mum and immediately forget about afterward. A light, comedic early …
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Love Lies Bleeding is a slick, cheeky thriller about lesbian codependency
Unlike the harrowingly exquisite Saint Maud, Rose Glass’s second feature film, Love Lies Bleeding, is just as likely to make you giggle as it is to make you …
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Yuni is a smart Indonesian coming-of-age story
In Kamila Andini's Yuni, the eponymous teenager tries to figure out who she is amidst growing patriarchal pressures. Three years after its TIFF premiere, the …
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Film Review: James Hawes’s One Life
Alex Heeney reviews James Hawes's new film, One Life, a WWII drama with a strong story and an incredible cast.Among the recent spate of WWII dramas about …
Berlinale Review: Klára Tasovská’s I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
Klára Tasovská's inventive documentary I'm Not Everything I Want to Be chronicles the life of photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková as she tries to become who she …
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