Contributor Matt Thrift

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Festivals

Unsane – first look review

by Matt Thrift

Steven Soderbergh’s unconventional iPhone movie is one of his strangest offerings to date.
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Review

The Shape of Water

by Matt Thrift

Guillermo del Toro’s latest is a fairy tale for grown-ups with a cinephile twist – it may be his most perfect confection to date.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Interviews

Face to Face: Liv Ullmann on her life with Ingmar Bergman

by Matt Thrift

The screen icon speaks candidly about her remarkable career, and her complicated relationship with the late Swedish master.
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Interviews

John Boorman on Kubrick, Connery and the lost Lord of The Rings script

by Matt Thrift

The legendary British director of Deliverance, Excalibur and Zardoz looks back over his extraordinary career.
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Interviews

David Fincher: ‘Moviemaking is a rat f*ck, every day is a skirmish’

by Matt Thrift

The alchemist behind Fight Club and Zodiac discusses his newest true crime saga, the Netflix Original series MINDHUNTER.
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Review

Loving Vincent

by Matt Thrift

A curious artistic experiment amounts to little more than that in this so-so Vincent Van Gogh biopic.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

My Journey Through French Cinema

by Matt Thrift

Director Bertrand Tavernier waxes lyrical about the great and the good of French cinema in this wonderful documentary.

2
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Interviews

Steven Soderbergh: ‘There’s no new oxygen in this system’

by Matt Thrift

The American director discusses his long-awaited return to feature filmmaking with Logan Lucky.
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Festivals

Findings from a rare screening of Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece, L’Amour Fou

by Matt Thrift

The director’s astonishing 1969 film was shown from the only known 35mm print in existence.
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Review

Atomic Blonde

by Matt Thrift

Charlize Theron blasts her way through Cold War-era Berlin in this glib actioner from John Wick’s David Leitch.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect

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