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Listen to Me Marlon – Review

“In their own words” documentaries have become rather popular of late, though none are as remarkable as this – provided you’re already a Brando fan. The exquisite construction of this film is...
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Paper Planes – Review

Quirkily pitched though largely rather rote, this Australian family film manages nevertheless to achieve something special within its genre trappings. Sam Worthington’s at his best since Somersault,...
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Junun – Review

First off: this is not a documentary about, or ode to, Jonny Greenwood – he’s barely in it. Instead, Anderson constructs a largely wordless impressionistic illustration through music, played live...
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99 Homes – Review

Laborer Dennis (Garfield) has his house foreclosed; desperate and inhabiting a small apartment with his son and mother, he winds up working for the slimeball who evicted him (Shannon). Bahrani, one of the...
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Top 10 Parody Films

What constitutes a parody film? This is an interesting question. If a film takes a set of tropes and engages with them academically, as in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love and Robert Altman's The...
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52 Tuesdays – Review

One of 2015's most important films, though so deft in style that it's never "Worthy". A parent's FTM transition provides a backdrop, but James (formerly Jane) is never defeatist or self-loathing. Instead,...
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Manglehorn – Review

A.J. Manglehorn has a ridiculous name and a ridiculous obsession with lost-love Clara; like Bellow's Herzog, the ageing recluse has an unfortunate habit of writing never-delivered letters. Thankfully, a...
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The Salt Of The Earth – Review

Sebastião Salgado and Wim Wenders are perfect together: veterans of photography and filmmaking respectively, and concerned with the political and spiritual - both subjects being treated deeply and...