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Review

Marching Powder review – a proper, proper gaffe

by Adam Woodward

Nick Love and Dan­ny Dyer are back with yet anoth­er boor­ish, small-mind­ed take on the foot­ball hooli­gan genre.

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In Retrospect
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Home Ents

What to watch at home in June

by Anton Bitel

A maligned VR pio­neer, a Pow­ell and Press­burg­er gem and an Ital­ian foot­ball thriller are head­ed for home ents this month.
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Review

Next Goal Wins review – chillingly eager to please

by Mark Asch

Tai­ka Wait­i­ti’s feel-good com­e­dy about the plight of a hap­less Samoan foot­ball team strives for noth­ing more than main­tain­ing the sta­tus quo.

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In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

Why Shaolin Soccer is the greatest football movie ever made

by Cian Tsang

By com­bin­ing his sig­na­ture absur­dist style and sin­cer­i­ty with the beau­ti­ful game, Stephen Chow cre­at­ed an exhil­a­rat­ing and uncon­ven­tion­al sports movie that cap­tures the highs and laws of football.
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Review

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

by Caitlin Quinlan

Foot­ball pro­vides the com­mon thread for Alek­san­dre Koberidze’s dreamy dra­ma set on the Rioni river.

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In Retrospect
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Not Movies

Arsenal: All Or Nothing and the football documentary boom

by Zoheir Beig

As Ama­zon’s lat­est Pre­mier League doc airs, how much do these pres­tige foot­ball docs real­ly tell us about the beau­ti­ful game?
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Festivals

The Hand of God – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Pao­lo Sor­renti­no gets per­son­al in this hit-and-miss tale of a world-famous foot­baller and a filmmaker’s cre­ative birth.
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Review

Pelé

by Adam Woodward

This autho­rised look at the life of the Brazil­ian icon reveals more about the man than the footballer.

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In Retrospect
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On Location

On Location: The South London of Alan Clarke’s The Firm

by Adam Scovell

The British director’s con­tro­ver­sial foot­ball hooli­gan dra­ma makes great use of var­i­ous domes­tic locales.
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Review

Finding Jack Charlton

by Adam Woodward

The sto­ry of one of England’s (and Ireland’s) most beloved foot­balling sons becomes a som­bre por­trait of dementia.

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