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Hustlers – Review

Comparisons to Scorsese are apt, but Hustlers’ sense of outrage and extraordinary female gaze feels like a fresh explosion of talent and perspective in a genre exhausted by Adam McKay. He is merely a...
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Crawl – Review

This Sam Raimi-produced natural disaster thriller wastes no time getting going and maintains a breakneck pace throughout its 87-minute run time. Artistry is not the aim of Crawl – the main plot points and...
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Hobbs and Shaw – Review

The first Fast and Furious franchise spinoff does exactly what it says on the tin: two fan-favourite characters team up to fight a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier intent on speeding human evolution by...
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Animals – Review

Reluctant adulthood is a current favourite on big and small screenings, and those missing Fleabag or Broad City will find welcome company in this adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s 2014 novel. Animals...
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Balance, Not Symmetry – Review

This review was originally published as part of our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage on 29/06/2019. Grief hangs large over Jamie Adams’ new drama: it opens on a funeral of Scottish-American art student...