Contributor Hannah Strong

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Review

Wolfs review – it’s content, not cinema

by Hannah Strong

Two lone wolf fixers bicker their way through Jon Watts' sparkless action comedy, which wastes the charisma of George Clooney.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

The Substance review – as shallow as the very thing it’s critiquing

by Hannah Strong

Coralie Fargeat's supposed satire on Hollywood's impossible standards for women is an ultimately unpleasant and ugly screed against those that try to play the game.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

In Camera review – a star is born in Nabhaan Rizwan

by Hannah Strong

Naqqash Khalid’s inventive feature debut is a spiky take on navigating the British film industry as a non-white actor.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Familiar Touch – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Sarah Friedland's feature debut is a stunning, sensory-forward portrait of a woman with dementia adapting to life in an assisted living facility.
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Review

Red Rooms review – a claustrophobic tech-tinged nightmare

by Hannah Strong

Pascal Plante's haunting drama examines the dark reality of the true crime industrial complex in elegant and austere fashion.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Joker: Folie à Deux – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.
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Festivals

Queer – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagnino heads on down to Mexico with Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in his freewheeling take on William S. Burroughs' eponymous novel.
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Festivals

Harvest – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Athina Rachel Tsangari's solemn adaptation of Jim Crace's historical novel concentrates on the changing face of a Scottish farming village as the agricultural revolution begins.
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Festivals

The Room Next Door – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language feature debut with an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as old friends who reunite in a time of crisis.
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Festivals

Wolfs – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

George Clooney and Brad Pitt play lone wolf fixers accidentally hired for the same job in Jon Watts' slightly repetitive but generally fine crime comedy.

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