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Review

The Extraordinary Miss Flower review – an eccentric music doc

by David Jenkins

Unearthed love let­ters pro­vide cre­ative fuel for Ice­landic singer Emilíana Tor­ri­ni in this charm­ing, music-fuelled char­ac­ter study.

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Review

The Souvenir: Part II

by Hannah Strong

The sequel to Joan­na Hogg’s auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal mas­ter­piece is a stun­ning por­trait of an artist’s pro­found explo­ration of grief.

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Review

The Double

by Anton Bitel

Richard Ayoade branch­es out into steam­punk para­noia with this feisty and fun­ny adap­ta­tion of Fyo­dor Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella.

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Review

Submarine

by Tom Seymour

British cin­e­ma isn’t good at being cool, but Sub­ma­rine has bucked that trend; defi­ant­ly so.

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