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Review

The Mauritanian

by David Jenkins

Kevin Macdonald’s based-on-a-true-story Guantanamo Bay drama too often loses its dramatic footing.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Undine

by David Jenkins

Paula Beer plays a woman with a supernatural secret in this unconventional modern-day fairy tale.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Minari

by Kambole Campbell

This gorgeous semi-memoir filters the ragged glory of the American Dream through a family of South Korean immigrant farmers.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Godzilla vs King Kong

by Charles Bramesco

Two of cinema’s most iconic monsters square off in Adam Wingard’s underwhelming IP crossover.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Bad Trip

by Charles Bramesco

Eric André spins his tried-and-trusted brand of hidden-camera humour into a feature-length buddy comedy.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Malmkrog

by David Jenkins

Cristi Puiu takes viewers on an intellectual odyssey with this stripped-back period drama set in a Transylvanian mansion.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Memories of My Father

by David Jenkins

Spanish veteran director Fernando Trueba returns with a handsome if dramatically inert autobiography.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Ammonite

by Jourdain Searles

A reclusive fossil collector has her quiet life interrupted in Francis Lee’s atmospheric coastal drama.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Stray

by Josh Slater-Williams

Istanbul’s semi-feral dog population is the focus of this thought-provoking ethnographic documentary.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Violation

by Leila Latif

Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer’s gruelling rape revenge thriller shrewdly subverts the genre.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect