Remainder is an ambitious and relentlessly imaginative picture with one foot in its arthouse roots and the other in the world of big screen thrillers.
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Cemetery of Splendour – Movie Review
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendour gives a wonderful sense of chaos beneath the surface of the ordinary, and the central metaphor is a potent and layered one.
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The Call Up – Movie Review
Virtual reality is coming fast. YouTube is already filled with videos of people falling out of their chairs with what look like orthopaedic shoes strapped to their faces. The Call Up presents a world just as stupid.
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I Saw The Light – Movie Review
I Saw The Light is a rather rote and overlong biopic (or honky-tonkumentary) of the late great country singer Hank Williams.
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Midnight Special – Movie Review
In Midnight Special, Nichols has crafted not just a damn good science fiction film, but one of the most thoughtful and beautiful depictions of parenthood we have seen for some time.
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A Bigger Splash – Movie Review: “makes ripples, but not waves”
There’s more than one splash in director Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, both actual and metaphorical, and just as in Hockney’s masterpiece it’s these very disruptions which throw into sharp contrast the fragile rigidity of the world around us.
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Sherpa – Documentary Review
For Peedon, Everest is paradise repurposed, with the Western climbers who are usually the focus of these sorts of productions backgrounded to an age-old story of family and loss.
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Spotlight – Movie Review
Spotlight ranks as not only one of the best newspaper films of all time, but as an exceptionally fine thriller which draws its drama not from fantastic reveals but from the terrible goosebumps of realisation
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Masculin Féminin: Jean-Luc Godard critique of a restless youth
To celebrate the BFI’s comprehensive Jean-Luc Godard season running till the end of February, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at some of the revolutionary director’s most important work. Here’s Douglas Clarke-Williams on Masculin Féminin, one part paean and one part critique of restless youth.
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The Big Short – Movie Review
The Big Short is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Michael Lewis it tells the tale of the grand collapse of the world’s financial systems, a collapse conceived by the parents of most of humanity’s more regrettable stumbles: greed and stupidity.