The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
The latest in our series of writers recommending comfort watches is a tribute to 1996’s charming restaurant-set comedy drama“Life is meals,” observed the novelist James Salter. ...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Brief film looks at the intense flowering of essays by the Caribbean feminist and anti-imperialist who saw surrealism as a revolutionary modeThis brief work from New York film-maker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich is the equivalent of a platform performance in the theatre: a look ...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Ico Costa’s film follows a young man who leaves his sweetheart in search of better fortune in the perilous mines in the north of the country Love heartbreakingly clashes with economic difficulties in Ico Costa’s third feature, shot on location in Mozambique and featuring ...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary absorbs the horror of the terrorist group’s impact on Cameroon by following the mischief of a pair of truant brothersShot matter-of-factly, there is however a fairytale or fabular quality to this Cameroonian documentary, in how it portrays t...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
A man gets catapulted into the future to help him understand the future of his crush, but the sloppy chronology and gratuitous stylistic touches leave this film a little too infatuated with itselfWith studio projects abandoning Los Angeles as a shooting location, it’s the...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Scott Eastwood and Robert De Niro also star in this confusing film about an ex-soldier sent to penetrate a cult compoundMake no mistake: this action thriller is a mangled, dreary, unlovely mess and so much less than the sum of its parts – despite relatively blameless supp...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
An Austrian trainer goes to Dubai to work with three teenage sisters, and realises they are trapped. But there is no hero-saviour narrative in Kurdwin Ayub’s filmThis claustrophobic drama-thriller sticks two fingers up at white saviour narratives with its story about a mi...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
British film about the relationship travails of a 30-year-old would-be actor falls flat and feels datedIt is a truth universally acknowledged that there was some drop-off in quality between the first incomparable Bridget Jones film and its sequels, but this cheap would-be...
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
Modern cinema is inherently international: A Georgian director might work with a French editor, an American actor and a German financier....
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Watching Will Ferrell and John C Reilly as a pair of large adult sons feels like witnessing the dying embers of the Gen X sensibility – before the world got cruel and idiots took over...
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