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Festivals

April – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s stark Georgian drama follows an obstetrician who moonlights as an abortionist, as she is accused of interfering with her patients.
A man on horseback, wearing a hat and coat, leading a group of horses in a mountainous landscape with a body of water in the background.
Festivals

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 – first-look review

by Luke Hicks

Kevin Costner deftly keeps the wheels turning on his hyper ambitious four-part western saga, despite a lukewarm reception and scrapped release.
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Festivals

Love – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Dag Johan Haugerud’s exploration of human desire is a sadly all too sterile affair.
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Festivals

The End – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Joshua Oppenheimer returns with an ambitious, post-apocalyptic musical whose thematic flights of fancy are always just a little too strident.

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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.

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Festivals

Youth (Homecoming) – first-look review

by Anna McKibbin

The final chapter in Wang Bing’s epic trilogy examines love old and new in China’s Zhili province.
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Review

Rebel Ridge review – Aaron Pierre delivers the goods and then some

by Kambole Campbell

Jeremy Saulnier returns with a flinty, restrained crime-conspiracy thriller exploring small town police corruption and the one guy who they should never have messed with.

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Top Ranking

Double Threat: A history of actresses directing

by Little White Lies

An expansive, 50-film chronology looking back at the history of films directed by female actors.
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Long Read

The irrelevance of gender in the films of Pedro Almodóvar

by Meghana Kandlur

In the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, gender proves more fluid and arbitrary than in much of contemporary cinema.
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Review

Starve Acre review – all texture and no teeth

by Michael Leader

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play a couple who move to an isolated Yorkshire Dales estate in Daniel Kokotajlo’s folk horror.

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