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Partnership

The Dreamworld Aesthetic of 8½

by Christina Newland

Through its vision­ary cin­e­matog­ra­phy and cos­tume design, Fed­eri­co Fellini’s 1963 film mas­ter­ful­ly blurs the lines between mem­o­ry, real­i­ty and fantasy.
A man in a checked shirt sitting on the grass, writing in a notebook under a tree in a lush, green garden.
Review

The Brutalist review – gorgeous, capital-C Cinema

by Hannah Strong

Adrien Brody is phe­nom­e­nal in Brady Cor­bet’s sub­lime three-and-a-half hour dra­ma, as a Jew­ish archi­tect arrives in post-war Amer­i­ca to a hos­tile new world.

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Festivals

The Brutalist – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Adrien Brody is phe­nomon­al in Brady Cor­bet’s sub­lime three-and-a-half hour dra­ma, as a Jew­ish archi­tect arrives in post-war Amer­i­ca to a hos­tile new world.
Person using a mobile device in a dimly lit room.
Review

Longlegs review – a harrowing serial killer thriller

by Hannah Strong

A rook­ie FBI agent with psy­chic abil­i­ties hunts down a ruth­less ser­i­al killer in Osgood Perkins’ thor­ough­ly unnerv­ing, fan­tas­ti­cal­ly odd horror.

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4
In Retrospect
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Long Read

Wax Entertainment: How Invada Records pioneered a vinyl soundtrack boom

by Paul Weedon

Ini­tial­ly known for its exper­i­men­tal out­put, Bris­tol-based Inva­da Records has spent the last decade and a half carv­ing a rep­u­ta­tion for its care­ful­ly curat­ed ros­ter of film soundtracks.
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Review

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review – a perfect lead performance

by David Jenkins

A hap­pi­ly sin­gle Geor­gian woman is forced to recon­sid­er her life of soli­tude when she falls in love in Elene Nave­ri­an­i’s bit­ter­sweet roman­tic dramedy.

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Review

Evil Does Not Exist review – beautifully precise

by Xuanlin Tham

Ryû­suke Ham­aguchi’s dra­ma about a moun­tain vil­lage threat­ened by a new devel­op­ment is a haunt­ing depic­tion of the gulf between cap­i­tal­ism and environmentalism.

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5
In Retrospect
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Festivals

A Family – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Author and reg­u­lar Claire Denis col­lab­o­ra­tor Chris­tine Angot cre­ates a har­row­ing por­trait of a fam­i­ly col­lec­tive­ly sup­press­ing its traumas.
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Review

Society of the Snow review – a visceral survival drama

by Emma Fraser

A har­row­ing yet incred­i­bly human look at sur­vival in the most des­per­ate cir­cum­stances from direc­tor JA Bayona.

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Review

Occupied City review – a staggeringly ambitious feat of emotional stamina

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Steven McQueen pro­vides a haunt­ing exam­i­na­tion of Ams­ter­dam under Nazi occu­pa­tion in con­trast to its present in his doc­u­men­tary adapt­ed from Bian­ca Stigter’s book of the same name.

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