Bob Marley: One Love review – a low-calorie music bio
An ultra-conventional jukebox biog where a celebration of the music trumps a true exploration of the man.
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The Settlers review – a brutally violent anti-western
This haunting debut by Felipe Gálvez Haberle dismantles the violent colonial trappings of the classic western.
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American Fiction review – wry literary satire is a mixed bag
Jeffrey Wright shines in a bold contemporary arts satire that doesn’t quite manage to hit all of its targets.
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Migration review – A sorely underpowered duck tale
A ripe set-up in which a family of ducks migrate in the wrong direction is squandered in this haphazard and empty family animation.
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This Blessed Plot review – a rough-hewn Brit ghost story
The latest from British non-fiction filmmaker Marc Issacs offers an ethereal cross-cut of working class lives in deepest Essex.
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The Color Purple review – rides on its stellar performances
Blitz Bazawule delivers an all singing, all dancing update of Alice Walker’s harrowing story of women in postbellum Georgia.
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Glasgow Film Festival announces A-grade line-up
A grand banquet of film has been laid out for the festival's 20th anniversary edition.
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Berlin announce exciting 2024 competition line-up
Outgoing artistic director Carlo Chatrian delivers the world cinema goods for his final edition at the helm.
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The Disappearance of Shere Hite – a profile doc with hidden depths
The life of the idiosyncratic US sexologist is parlayed into a story of rank misogyny and violent moral conservatism.
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Ten essential Werner Herzog films
In celebration of a BFI season of the German maverick’s sublime work in film, we pick ten of our absolute faves.
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