Joseph Owen

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  The Lighthouse

  ★★★★★

  When travelling to an isolated lighthouse, borne against scheming waves and...

  Joseph Owen 22nd May 2019
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  Ira Sachs and Isabelle Huppert discuss their subtle cinematic approach to death at the Frankie press conference in Cannes
  Joseph Owen 22nd May 2019
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  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Tarantino’s earnest celebration of cinema is an extravagant and nostalgic ode to a world that does not exist anymore

  ★★★★★
  Joseph Owen 21st May 2019
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  A Hidden Life

  ★★★★★

  Terrence Malick sees the modern world as a product of secularised theology....

  Joseph Owen 20th May 2019
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  Diego Maradona

  ★★★★★

  Diego Maradona embodies the footballer as double: saint and sinner, hero and...

  Joseph Owen 20th May 2019
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  Song Without a Name (Canción sin nombre): An ambling but worthy attempt to depict a mother’s grief and a journalist’s desire for justice

  ★★★★★
  Joseph Owen 18th May 2019
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  Sorry We Missed You

  ★★★★★

  “I’ve got to go to work!” There are few insincere sentiments in...

  Joseph Owen 17th May 2019
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  Beanpole

  ★★★★★

  This is a wonderfully wrought drama from Kantemir Balagov, one exquisitely framed...

  Joseph Owen 17th May 2019
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  The Swallows of Kabul (Les Hirondelles de Kaboul)

  ★★★★★

  “We’ve already been killed, all of us....

  Joseph Owen 16th May 2019
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  A Brother’s Love (La femme de mon frère)

  ★★★★★

  This smug, unfunny film trades on exhausted...

  Joseph Owen 16th May 2019