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Review

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer review – shine on you crazy German

by Adam Woodward

Thomas von Steinaeck­er flips the cam­era on one of Ger­many’s favourite film­mak­ing sons, inves­ti­gat­ing his long and far-reach­ing career.

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Review

The Pale Blue Eye

by Anton Bitel

A hard­ened detec­tive teams up with a young Edgar Allen Poe to solve a mur­der in Scott Coop­er’s chilly thriller.

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Thor: Love and Thunder

by Adam Woodward

Tai­ka Wait­i­ti returns to the MCU five years after Thor: Rag­narok with a dis­ap­point­ing sequel sore­ly lack­ing in charm and imagination.

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A group of men standing around a red sports car, one holding a trophy aloft. The men are smiling and appear to be celebrating a victory or achievement.
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Le Mans ’66

by David Jenkins

The might of Ford takes on the mag­ic of Fer­rari in this full-throt­tle motor­ing dra­ma from James Mangold.

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Vice

by Hannah Strong

Adam McKay’s played-for-laughs por­trait of for­mer VP Dick Cheney strays into Bond vil­lain parody.

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Review

Hostiles

by David Jenkins

Chris­t­ian Bale gives it his actor­ly all as a jad­ed cav­al­ry gun­slinger in Scott Cooper’s dour, old-timey western.

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Review

The Promise

by Sophie Wyatt

Hotel Rwanda’s Ter­ry George returns with a colour­ful his­tor­i­cal por­trait of the Armen­ian Genocide.

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Review

Knight of Cups

by David Jenkins

Ter­rence Mal­ick con­tin­ues to inspire awe with this tran­scen­dent tale of a man look­ing back to past loves.

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Review

The Big Short

by David Jenkins

The direc­tor of Anchor­man 2 dials back the screw­ball in this frisky tale of the sub-prime mort­gage melt­down of 2007.

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A man in a white T-shirt holding a rifle, standing in front of a wooden structure.
Review

Out of the Furnace

by Matt Thrift

A mag­net­ic Chris­t­ian Bale adds much-need­ed grav­i­tas to this oth­er­wise con­ven­tion­al blue-col­lar revenge saga.

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The Dark Knight Rises

by Adam Woodward

Christo­pher Nolan’s baroque opus is a wor­thy tril­o­gy clos­er, both seri­ous­ly epic and epi­cal­ly serious.

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Review

The Fighter

by Kevin Maher

A for­mu­la­ic box­ing movie made utter­ly com­pelling by one of the most com­mit­ted actors in the business.

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