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Festivals

Shooting the Mafia – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

Doc­u­men­tar­i­an Kim Longinot­to explores the Mafia’s grip on Sici­ly through the lens of pho­to­jour­nal­ist Letizia Battaglia.
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After the Wedding – first look review

by Jennifer Verzuh

Strong per­for­mances from Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams aren’t enough to save this melo­dra­ma from mediocrity.
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The Last Tree – first look review

by Hannah Strong

There’s a touch of Moon­light about Shola Amoo’s engag­ing sec­ond fea­ture about young British-Niger­ian boy.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile – first look review

by Hannah Strong

Zac Efron gives the per­for­mance of his career in a film which only scratch­es the sur­face of its subject.
A young woman with a pained expression, her face bloodied and bruised, staring directly at the camera against a dark background.
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The Nightingale – first look review

by Hannah Strong

Jen­nifer Kent fol­lows up The Babadook with a dev­as­tat­ing inter­ro­ga­tion of Australia’s dark past.
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Native Son – first look review

by Hannah Strong

Moonlight’s Ash­ton Sanders stars in this con­tem­po­rary adap­ta­tion of Richard Wright’s 1938 novel.
A man, dressed in a suit, sits in a room with framed photographs on the wall and books on a table.
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Untouchable – first look review

by Hannah Strong

This urgent Har­vey Wein­stein doc­u­men­tary seeks to get to the root of our cul­ture of sex­u­al abuse.
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Honey Boy – first look review

by Hannah Strong

Shia LaBeouf plays his own father in this frank explo­ration of his expe­ri­ences as a child star.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – first look review

by Adam Woodward

Chi­we­tel Ejio­for steps behind the cam­era for this Net­flix-backed true sto­ry of human survival.
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The Sundance Film Festival announces its most diverse line-up yet

by Little White Lies

Park City’s pres­ti­gious indie extrav­a­gan­za promis­es famil­iar faces and new dis­cov­er­ies aplen­ty in 2019.