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3/5
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The Marvels
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Fans of earlier films in the series will probably take a hard pass here, but for those of us who enjoy a bit of satirical silliness, The Marvels manages to be both funny and endearing.
Posted Nov 08, 2023
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3/5
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Cat Person
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Not a perfect adaptation, but it still works.
Posted Nov 06, 2023
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3/5
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Bottoms
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Smart and very silly.
Posted Nov 06, 2023
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5/5
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The Creator
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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See it on the biggest screen you can find, and who knows it may even change your mind on a range of issues, including on the so called dangers of AI advancement.
Posted Sep 26, 2023
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4/5
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Dumb Money
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Engaging and robustly acted
Posted Sep 22, 2023
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4/5
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A Haunting in Venice
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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There is certainly no danger of this being as memorable as any of Christie's mysteries from past decades, but there is just enough intrigue here to keep fans of the series entertained until the next one
Posted Sep 15, 2023
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5/5
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Past Lives
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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It’s barely believable that this is Song’s very first feature. Her film is simply sublime from start to finish.
Posted Sep 08, 2023
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3/5
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The Blackening
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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The Blackening takes very few prisoners and has a lot more to say about race than people are likely to give it credit for. It is funnier than most horror parodies I’ve seen over the past decade.
Posted Aug 25, 2023
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4/4
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Theater Camp
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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The mockumentary is in safe hands with this talented team. And at a breezy 90-minute running time their film is exactly what you need to ward off the end-of-summer blues.
Posted Aug 25, 2023
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4/5
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Revoir Paris
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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At all times, Efira is simply sublime as a woman whose life has suffered a cataclysmic reset, but who still manages love and compassion among the rubble.
Posted Aug 04, 2023
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4/5
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You Hurt My Feelings
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Around ten years ago, similarly themed New York cautionary tales were very much in vogue and I’ve no idea why Hollywood stopped making them.
Posted Aug 04, 2023
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4/5
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Barbie
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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It is a film that says "girls who love pink can also be feminists”.
Posted Jul 19, 2023
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5/5
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Nolan's best film to date and a spectacular achievement for cinema.
Posted Jul 19, 2023
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2/5
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Insidious: The Red Door
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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I was neither entertained nor was I scared, but nevertheless I was impressed by the film it desperately wanted to be. Show me that film, and I’m on board next time.
Posted Jul 14, 2023
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3/5
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Bird Box Barcelona
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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While Bird Box: Barcelona has none of the subtle bleakness of Brier's first film, the Pastors still manage to bring an interesting twist to Malerman's excellent original idea.
Posted Jul 14, 2023
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5/5
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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See it on the biggest screen you can find.
Posted Jul 05, 2023
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4/5
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La Syndicaliste
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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This is a truly shocking story that is told with precision and sensitivity.
Posted Jun 30, 2023
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3/5
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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While this is, for the most part, very watchable, it is sad to see this much-loved film series end with a whimper rather than the bang we were all expecting.
Posted Jun 30, 2023
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4/5
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Nimona
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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I can’t think of a better time than Pride month for this beautiful LGBT story to be released and enjoyed by a wider audience of all ages.
Posted Jun 23, 2023
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4/5
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Asteroid City
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Funny, but often quietly devastating.
Posted Jun 23, 2023
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3/5
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Chevalier
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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Williams and Robinson's insistence on converting this important story about the earliest European musician and composer of African descent to receive widespread acclaim into contemporary American talking points, often feels misguided.
Posted Jun 09, 2023
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1/5
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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It pains me to say that Ramos and Fishback are let down continuously by a truly preposterous premise that seems to prioritise mindless destruction over any kind of plausible plotline.
Posted Jun 09, 2023
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1/5
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Master Gardener
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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I wish Master Gardener had the wit and courage of Schrader ’s earlier works, instead of relying on some half-baked ideas about masculinity, race and age-gap romance
Posted Jun 02, 2023
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5/5
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Reality
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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While realism underpins this truly extraordinary production throughout, there remains plenty of suspense, drama and unbridled angst.
Posted Jun 02, 2023
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4/5
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Full Time
(2021)
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Linda Marric
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Full Time goes further in its quest for realism than anything ever released by the Dardenne brothers or Britain’s purveyor of miserabilist social realism, Ken Loach.
Posted May 24, 2023
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4/5
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Sisu
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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Imagine all the satisfyingly gory Nazi killing sequences from Inglourious Basterds neatly packed into a 91-minute grind-house-style B movie.
Posted May 24, 2023
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5/5
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Simply wonderful.
Posted May 18, 2023
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5/5
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Beau Is Afraid
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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This film is probably not what Aster’s fans were expecting after a hiatus of almost four years, but I think it’s a wonderful take on Oedipal misery and the misery of drug abuse.
Posted May 18, 2023
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3/5
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%!
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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While I have very little doubt that Mason’s philosophy on screen is likely to prove as helpful as his best-selling tome, there is something about Price’s film that just feels too stunted to fully function as a bona fide adaptation of the book.
Posted May 12, 2023
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4/5
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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Menkes delves deep into Hollywood’s obsession with the female body and its continued sexist representation of young women as objects of desire.
Posted May 12, 2023
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3/5
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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Davis is impressive as Foreman, but just as in real life, it is Sullivan Jones as the charming and hubris-fuelled Ali who steals every scene from under him.
Posted Apr 28, 2023
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2/5
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To Catch a Killer
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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While it's always a pleasure to see Woodley in anything, I fear she's been let down by a fairly pedestrian screenplay here.
Posted Apr 28, 2023
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2/5
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Evil Dead Rise
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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There are some interesting nods to the earlier films throughout and some half decent performances for the young cast but, all in all, there is a lot about the film that just doesn’t add up.
Posted Apr 20, 2023
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5/5
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The Three Musketeers: Part I - D'Artagnan
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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French cinema reclaims one of its most enduring stories and it is a delight from stat to finish.
Posted Apr 20, 2023
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4/5
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Air
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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It’s another win for Affleck as a director. I had a whale of a time, despite knowing almost nothing about the subject matter.
Posted Apr 06, 2023
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4/5
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Daley and Goldstein have delivered a film that refuses to take itself too seriously and perhaps that’s where their adaptation differs from its lacklustre predecessors.
Posted Mar 30, 2023
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4/5
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Tetris
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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With nods to the early days of computer technology and just enough Cold War intrigue, Tetris succeeds in making even the most convicted luddites among us care about its subject.
Posted Mar 30, 2023
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3/5
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A Good Person
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Decidedly forgettable
Posted Mar 24, 2023
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4/5
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Infinity Pool
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Cronenberg incisively critiques global inequalities in a world where being rich can not only buy you anything, it can allow you to get away with murder over and over again.
Posted Mar 24, 2023
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4/5
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John Wick: Chapter 4
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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With characters able to dodge bullets left, right and centre, the film is a homage to the classic martial-arts genre with a sprinkling of old Hollywood Westerns where protagonists never seem to run out of ammunition or ways to stay alive.
Posted Mar 24, 2023
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5/5
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Pearl
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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Fresh, subversive and drenched in delicious irony and dark humour. Goth continues to impress.
Posted Mar 17, 2023
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2/5
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Laboured, unfocused and generally out of ideas. I was bored stiff.
Posted Mar 17, 2023
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3/5
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Scream VI
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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If you're able to stomach characters who sound like they’ve swallowed a film studies manual, Scream VI still manages to be gorier and truer to Wes Craven’s original movie than any of it
Posted Mar 10, 2023
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2/5
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Creed III
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Sadly all the elements that made the first two films so accessible and engaging are nowhere to be found here.
Posted Mar 03, 2023
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5/5
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Close
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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Dambrine and De Waele deliver two beautifully intricate performances in which they convey the complexities of young male friendship.
Posted Mar 03, 2023
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4/5
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Sharper
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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While Sharper’s genius resides in its ability to successfully outwit its audience, at no point does it feel laboured or in the least predictable.
Posted Mar 03, 2023
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4/5
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Charm Circle
(2021)
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Linda Marric
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With more than a hint of Grey Gardens, Bernstein’s film is both touching and unintentionally funny.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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4/5
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Next Exit
(2022)
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Linda Marric
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Mali Elfman delivers one hell of a debut feature.
Remember her name, you’ll be hearing it again and again.
Posted Feb 24, 2023
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4/5
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Peyton Reed and screenwriter Jeff Loveness seem to have gotten the tone just right this time around.
Posted Feb 14, 2023
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3/5
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Somebody I Used To Know
(2023)
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Linda Marric
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Not terrible, but nothing to wrote home about. Kiersey Clemons is the real revelation here.
Posted Feb 10, 2023
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