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Set Fire to the Stars – EIFF Review

Set Fire to the Stars is what happens when performance and written word arrestingly compete for head billing. Goddard's feature debut boasts the full enormity of its inspired source (Dylan Thomas' 'Love In...
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Mistaken for Strangers – Review

Mistaken for Strangers is a tale of two siblings rather than your usual hedonistic rock doc. Tom Berninger’s lo-fi filming strips away all glamour and lays bare the mundanity behind any success. The...
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Something, Anything – EIFF Review

Writer-director Paul Harrill's feature debut offers higher understanding without the usual cost of condescension. Something, Anything gently indicts blindly-followed sociopolitical (bourgeois) ideals, while...
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Finsterworld – EIFF Review

It's no coincidence that Daniel Clowes' seminal work Ghost World surfaces throughout Frauke Finsterwalder's multifaceted directorial debut. In taking the highly esteemed graphic novel's unique brand of...
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Belle – Review

Proof that the costume drama can go beyond chocolate-box sweet and address issues greater than its genre, Belle is a sumptuous love letter to the classic period film that nevertheless asks you to stop and...
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Chef – Review

In Chef, a passion project, writer-director Jon Favreau serves up a tasty, if predictable, dish that should satisfy most cinematic palates. He has high-quality ingredients: an appetizing cast, including...
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Blended – Review

Welcome to Blended, brought to you by the South African Tourist Board. On your left is a lumbering performance from Drew Barrymore, and on your right is a clunky and drawn-out plot. At least South Africa looks...
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The Two Faces of January – Review

Hossein Amini's pleasing adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name falls victim to its meagre 12A rating; often willing to broach the mature themes demanded of it, yet never fully...
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In Secret – Review

In Secret feels like a film that has sat in stasis, waiting - to get made, for its cast to stabilise, for its leads to maybe even make it big. In a claustrophobic, stagey Paris primarily existing within a...