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You Were Never Really Here
The arthouse take on a well-worn action, thriller or gangster trope often turns out to be one of the highlights of any given year in...
Tomb Raider
Is it the end of the adventure film? For so long the bastion of blockbuster filmmaking and home to early classics but beaten out by its...
Gringo
Cartels are still trending high with movie and TV producers at the moment and we’ve seen some great gangster shows and films based on...
Red Sparrow
Let’s start this review boldly and say that Red Sparrow is exponentially better than the widely-middling critical consensus. Far more of...
Lady Bird
The last of the Best Picture nominations to make it to these shores (but, spoiler alert, didn’t win) is the much-heralded Lady Bird....
Black Panther
It takes something truly special to upstage Spider-Man’s long-awaited integration into the MCU but that’s how I and plenty of others felt...
The Maze Runner: The Death Cure
We haven’t had much luck recently when it comes to Young Adult trilogy closers. Since the triumphant close to the Harry Potter series the...
I, Tonya
There’s something about the dramatic tension and psychological depth you can wring from a movie about an individual sport. Team sports...
The Shape Of Water
The Shape Of Water leading the Oscar nominations was most likely a surprise to some on announcement. An old fashioned, romantic love...
Coco
Pixar’s releases can often feel like they crest a cultural wave; Toy Story set the benchmark for animation in the nineties and...
The Post
We’ve got to the stage where any historical event can be canonised in celluloid. Some strike as barrel scraping but with certain films...
Darkest Hour
There are certain stories, legends, morality tales etc. destined to be retold, reinterpreted and reimagined ad infinitum. Some have...
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