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Seventh Row best films of the decade

Seventh Row Editors / November 25, 2019

Seventh Row’s 50 favourite films of the decade

…of his life for a hotel before sleeping with his barely consenting step-sister. Like Chuck Bass, these boys were raised in the lap of luxury and privilege. As they say…

Seventh Row’s family viewing guide

…Designer Orry-Kelly finally gets his moment in the sun, and boy is he fabulous! ‘The system is so entangled in daily life’: Garrett Bradley on Time Boys State by Jesse…

Standing Tall

Alex Heeney / March 27, 2016

Standing Tall is a gritty coming-of-ager told through rose-coloured glasses

…she can barely take care of herself. He’s rebelling against the lack of authority in his home life, and the state is forced to pick up the slack. Over the…

Woman at War, Benedikt Erlingsson

Elena Lazic / September 1, 2018

‘We are at war with ourselves’: Benedikt Erlingsson discusses Woman at War

…of the state. We see this all around. We see environmentalists like Berta Cáceres from Honduras who was murdered, and Yolanda Maturana from Columbia. We see this throughout history. In…

A still from Charlatan, in which a man holds up a small glass of urine to the light and stares at it, while another main watches him from behind. The text on the image says: Review.

Alex Heeney / December 10, 2020

Charlatan draws parallels between a faith healer and communism

…from the kind of faith healing charlatanism that Jan practices. Yet even though the papers, and eventually the state, dismiss Jan as a charlatan, Holland isn’t quite so quick to…

Alex Heeney / May 12, 2021

Visions du Réel Review: Captains of Za’atari

…in the friendship between the boys and their hope for the future than this particular dream. El-Arabi dedicates the same care and attention to calls home to their parents to…

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