Contributor Mark Asch

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Festivals

The Royal Hotel – first-look review

by Mark Asch

More cinema of ominous discomfort from Kitty Green as she takes us to an out-of-the-way Australian boozer for some low-boiling violence.
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Review

The Super 8 Years

by Mark Asch

Annie Ernaux and her son David piece together a magical home movie essay on marriage, motherhood and the whole damn thing.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Festivals

The Old Oak – first-look review

by Mark Asch

In what could be his final film, Ken Loach turns his eye to UK immigration, focusing on a pub landlord in a town reckoning with a new population of Syrian refugees.
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Festivals

La Chimera – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Josh O’Connor breaks out his halting Italian as a grave-robbing rascal in Alice Rohrwacher’s divine exploration of time, history and memory.
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Festivals

Kidnapped – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Italian veteran Marco Bellocchio’s adaptation of David Kertzer’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara is an occasionally enthralling, yet often staid and repetitive affair.
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Interviews

Paul Schrader: ‘My movies are more on the witty clever side than the drop-your-pants funny side’

by Mark Asch

The legendary filmmaker and writer reflects on his curious horticultural drama, Master Gardener, and reveals which of his films he thinks is the funniest.
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Festivals

The Book of Solutions – first-look review

by Mark Asch

A filmmaker in crisis finds inspiration in the mountains in Michel Gondry's first film in eight years.
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Review

EO

by Mark Asch

A donkey sets off on a long journey to reunite with his mistress in Jerzy Skolimowski's far-reaching drama.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

by Mark Asch

Peter Farrelly’s follow-up to his Best Picture winner Green Book is a hokey Vietnam tall tale.

1
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Empire of Light – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Olivia Colman channels her inner Anna Karina in director Sam Mendes’ mawkish ode to the magic of the movies.

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