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Weiner – Sundance London Review

What’s in a name? Not much. Unless that name is Weiner. Directors Kriegman and Steinberg gain unparalleled access to the disgraced dick-pic Democrat as he runs for New York mayor. Their intimate approach...
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X-Men: Apocalypse – Review

Singer jumps at this second chance to establish the characters he first brought to the screen 16 years ago, unleashing new powers and revisiting old stories with typical invention. This is when he and the film...
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – Review

Tina Fey deserves better than this film’s trailer, which suggested a woman who went to war because she was single and, when she got there, had a party. She deserves what Whiskey Tango Foxtrot actually...
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Truman – Review

How do you face death? On your own terms or scrapping every step of the way? It’s a question we have to face more and more often as an ageing population, and one that Truman answers brilliantly. Despite...
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Evolution – Review

With her second feature, Lucile Hadžihalilović crafts a complex and unsettling body horror set on a mysterious island, inhabited only by boys and young women. The strange, symbiotic, maternal...
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Ratchet & Clank – Review

For a certain niche of people in their mid-twenties and younger, a Ratchet & Clank film is a bizarre and nostalgic prospect. Reassuringly, these videogame fan favourites have made it onto the big screen...