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A film that courted controversy in South Africa to the point of cast and crew receiving death threats (a situation that only highlights the film’s necessity), Trengove’s The Wound explores a tense...

Hedy Lamarr was a remarkable woman – and for a long time, the general public had no idea she achieved much more than the notoriety of her early career and the fame gained through Hollywood productions....

This was first reviewed on 16/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Despite its proficiency in inspiring emotion, Jane can at points feel like it’s a little lacking in depth. There are countless details...

Wholly unrelenting and uncensored, Hungarian writer-director Arpad Sopsits’ Strangled (A Martfüi Rém, in its native translation) is a true crime neo-noir that rarely lets up. Strangled effectively...

Not a jump down the rabbit hole as much as a squeeze through the other end of the telescope, Good Time is when the bass drops at 3am and you can’t remember your own name. Josh and Benny Safdie use every...

Despite its proficiency in inspiring emotion, Jane can at points feel like it’s a little lacking in depth. There are countless details in Goodall's work that are glossed over in quick montages, details that...

Barry Seal lived the kind of life that is destined to one day be made into a feature film. And on paper, there’s no actor more perfect for the role of Seal himself than Tom Cruise. Think about it: Seal was a...

At a time when white supremacists are marching in the streets, “Ocean’s Eleven in Trump’s America” could have easily become a two-hour middle finger to the Bible Belt. So perhaps the most surprising...

Anton Chekhov is reputed to have said "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." The Russian playwright was clearly far from the minds of the team behind The Hitman's...

In Japanese, the word "shin" can be translated as "new" – appropriate, considering Shin Godzilla is technically a soft reboot for Toho’s 50-year franchise – but it can also mean "pure" or "true". One...

The world of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is never less than spectacular to behold. Almost every frame is composed like a painting or the cover of a pulp sci-fi novel, bursting with colour and...

Gregg Hurwitz's screenplay for The Book of Henry has been searching for a director since the late 1990s. Watching the film, it’s not difficult to see why. Tonally, it’s all over the place. It starts as...

From the first car chase – set to ‘Bellbottoms’ – Baby Driver makes its mission clear in a manner not unlike Damien Chazelle's crossover hit La La Land: this is another untraditional musical....

If Short Term 12 had been a co-production between Henry Selick and Tim Burton, it might well have ended up as something close to My Life as a Courgette, a simple but sincere stop motion feature that tests the...

Even ignoring the anime adaptation, Rupert Sanders’ take on Ghost in the Shell feels like well-trodden ground. Many (or all) of the film's stylistic cues feel borrowed, whether it’s the gratuitous...