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Nightbitch review – Amy Adams is back

by Jourdain Searles

Amy Adams is on great form in Marielle Heller’s adap­ta­tion of Rachel Yoder’s nov­el about a new moth­er who is alarmed dis­cov­er she is turn­ing into a dog.

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Review

Disenchanted

by Ella Kemp

Any­one with fond mem­o­ries of the 2007 meta-fairy­tale banger, Enchant­ed, star­ring Amy Adams, is in for a sur­prise and a treat.

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Review

The Woman in the Window

by Charles Bramesco

Joe Wright serves up a tepid slice of Hitch­cock­ian sus­pense, with Amy Adams as a para­noid agoraphobe.

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Review

Hillbilly Elegy

by Madeleine Seidel

Despite strong per­for­mances from Amy Adams and Glenn Close, this mis­judged melo­dra­ma is an insult to those it claims to represent.

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Vice

by Hannah Strong

Adam McKay’s played-for-laughs por­trait of for­mer VP Dick Cheney strays into Bond vil­lain parody.

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Arrival

by Adam Woodward

Denis Villeneuve’s lat­est is the most low-key alien inva­sion dra­ma you’ll ever see.

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Review

Nocturnal Animals

by Manuela Lazic

Tom Ford’s long-await­ed fol­low-up to A Sin­gle Man is a gor­geous, wild and whol­ly frus­trat­ing affair.

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Review

Big Eyes

by David Jenkins

Tim Bur­ton miss­es sub­tex­tu­al tricks in this colour­ful biopic of Amer­i­can kitsch artist, Mar­garet Keane.

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Review

Man of Steel

by Jonathan Crocker

Zack Sny­der aspires to some­thing greater with this maxed-out com­ic book epic, but lays it on a lit­tle too thick.

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Review

The Master

by Adam Woodward

Paul Thomas Anderson’s spir­i­tu­al post-war love sto­ry will restore your faith in cinema.

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Review

The Fighter

by Kevin Maher

A for­mu­la­ic box­ing movie made utter­ly com­pelling by one of the most com­mit­ted actors in the business.

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