Fallen Leaves review – the Finnish legend returns
Another gorgeous tragicomic farce from Finnish maestro Aki Kaurismäki, a heartfelt cinephile ode to the possibility of love among the working classes.
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Lost In The Night review – violent drama hampered by convention
Mexican provocateur Amat Escalante makes a half-cocked bid for mainstream respectability in this intriguing tale of a young man’s torrid search for his missing mother.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – lopsided prequel
Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth head up this serviceable franchise prequel that divebombs into ignominy and obscurity during its protracted final act.
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Anatomy of a Fall review – Sandra Hüller is one of the finest to ever do it
A woman has to stand trial after her husband dies in suspicious circumstances in Justine Triet's compelling courtroom drama.
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The Eternal Memory – Intimate, meandering doc
A sentimental docu-portrait of a Chilean journalist, famed for his reporting on Pinochet's atrocities, whose own memory is leaving him.
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On the Adamant review – A hushed, humanistic, prize-winning doc
French documentarian Nicolas Philibert returns with a gentle, deeply moving chronicle of a floating hospital in Paris.
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Fingernails review – lightly effective despite a flawed premise
The barroom love-tester is God in this gentle sci-fi comedy with Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley as working stiffs at a scientific institute for love.
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Carol Morley: “I could tell straight away that Audrey Amiss was a completely fascinating person”
The intrepid British director on being one of the first people to lay their eyes on the archives of the late artist Audrey Amiss – subject of Typist, Artist, Pirate, King.
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Typist Artist Pirate King review – cleverly picks apart biopic clichés
Carol Morley constructs a creative tribute to the artist Audrey Amiss, who created thousands of artworks but remained mostly unknown until her death in 2013.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s – nonsensical robo-slasher trash
What appears as a fun robotic slasher lark turns out to be a deathly dull rip-off of various trauma-based horror yarns which fails to deliver in either the serious or silly stakes.
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