Phantasm: Remastered is a loving restoration of the Don Coscarelli classic, supervised by J.J. Abrams. The fish-wires are gone, but the bizarreness remains.
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Queen of Katwe – Movie Review
With Queen of Katwe, Mira Nair delivers a home run of a Disney crowdpleaser which tugs on the heartstrings without ever really venturing out of its comfort zone.
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American Honey – Movie Review
Andrea Arnold’s first US-set movie American Honey is a resonant, freewheeling epic, where youthful abandon triumphs over economic and social adversity.
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The Illinois Parables – Documentary Review: London Film Festival 2016
The Illinois Parables is a powerfully still meditation on place, people and history in Illinois, America's most average state.
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Orange Sunshine – Documentary Review: London Film Festival 2016
Orange Sunshine is billed as a ‘little-known moment in American history,’ although of course it takes place in perhaps the most analysed and written-about decade in the history of the world.
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Lake Bodom – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
The decision to take an existing unsolved crime - in this case the brutal murder of a group of teenagers in 1960 at Lake Bodom, Finland - and turn it into the basis of a fictional slasher movie is a tricky one.
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Voyage Of Time: Life’s Journey – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey is a fantastically ambitious and expansive film by Terrence Malick, 40 years in the making and filled with wonder.
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Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children is a wildly inventive and darkly imaginative exploration of innocence, loss and family.
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Una – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Una is a devastating, artfully constructed film, explicitly dissecting the complex aftermath of abuse.
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The Noonday Witch (Polednice) – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Witches are getting a bad rap lately. Jiří Sádek’s Czech horror film The Noonday Witch won’t do them any favours.