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Poolman – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

There’s a whole lot of Chinatown in Chris Pine’s directorial debut Poolman, an Angeleno neo-noir with a script that gives Robert Towne more than fair grounds to sue for damages.
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LWLies 100: Special Anniversary Issue – Out now!

by David Jenkins

Party hats and streamers at the ready as we celebrate our bumper birthday edition – with four stunning covers up for grabs.
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Next Goal Wins – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Taika Waititi is way-too eager to please with this aggressively feel-good comic fictionalisation of the lovely 2014 documentary of the same name.
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

In his latest documentary, the American master Frederick Wiseman observes the routines of the Troisgros family and their three fine dining restaurants in France.
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Woman of the Hour – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, about a abused upstart actress and a serial killer in her midst, says all the right things, but too loud and too often.
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – first-look review

by Mark Asch

The new film from one of Romania’s foremost cine-ironists, Radu Jude, is a glorious, poisonous, everything-in-the-pot treatise on the state of the world today.
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Les Indésirables – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Ladj Ly’s follow-up to his Cesar award-winning Les Misérables is a hyperbolic state-of-the-nation address that lacks the logic and fire of that first feature.
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The Boy and the Heron – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Less a swansong and more a heronsong from the Japanese maestro Hayao Miyazaki, a mystical and ambitious message of hope for the future.
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Memory – first-look review

by Yasmine Kandil

Michel Franco’s drama about the chokehold of the past boasts star power in Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, but never quite delivers on its emotional premise.
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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.