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Black and white image of a person lying in a bed, surrounded by snow-covered furniture and decor.
Review

Bogancloch review – film and landscape are as one

by David Jenkins

The lure of the Scot­tish wilder­ness was too much to resist as Ben Rivers returns there for his lat­est feature.

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Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Alien Romulus + Fede Alvarez | Only The River Flow | Zodiac (2007)

On Truth & Movies this week Fede Alvarez takes the reigns of the lat­est entry in the Alien Fran­chise and we spoke to the direc­tor about the Alien Romu­lus. There’s also a killer on the loose in Chi­nese film noir Only The Riv­er Flows and on Film club we return to one of the mod­ern film noirs from the man behind one of the more con­tro­ver­sial entries of the Alien films with David Fincher’s Zodiac.
Two people, a man and a woman, embrace in a cosy, dimly lit room with a painting on the wall and a table with plates of food.
Review

Only the River Flows review – a spellbinding nightmare

by Josh Slater-Williams

A detec­tive is haunt­ed by a mur­der case he can’t crack in Wei Shu­jun’s unset­tling crime drama.

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Two figures wearing red and black trousers standing on a paved surface, with one hand holding a light green box.
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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Aerial view of a dramatic horseshoe-shaped canyon with vibrant orange and turquoise colours.
Review

River

by Marina Ashioti

Not even Willem Dafoe’s nar­ra­tion can save this mean­der­ing doc­u­men­tary with tired colo­nial overtones.

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Two people, a man and a woman, standing on a wooden riverboat in a forest setting.
Review

Jungle Cruise

by Lou Thomas

Expec­ta­tions be damned: Disney’s river­boat caper is one of the year’s most pure­ly plea­sur­able motion pictures.

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Person in a black coat holding a flower in a forested, misty setting.
Review

Chemical Hearts

by Charles Bramesco

Riverdale sweet­heart Lili Rein­hart plays a star-crossed high school­er in this stilt­ed teen weepie from Richard Tanne.

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Two lambs stand in a garden with a colourful ornate shrine visible in the background.
Review

Krabi, 2562

by David Jenkins

Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichako­rn­pong observe the local cus­toms of a South­ern Thai community.

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A person with long brown hair wearing a red face mask in a dimly lit room.
Review

Mortal Engines

by Tom Huddleston

Despite some spec­tac­u­lar pro­duc­tion design, this is far from a pre­ci­sion-tooled adap­ta­tion of Philip Reeve’s steam­punk fantasy.

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Two people, a man and a woman, standing close together and facing each other in a rural setting with buildings and a fence in the background.
Review

Dark River

by Mike McCahill

Clio Barnard fol­lows up The Self­ish Giant with an over­wrought domes­tic dra­ma star­ring Ruth Wilson.

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