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Violent Night

A festive martial arts home invasion thriller drawing upon Germanic mythology sounds like a lot to unpack, but…

By Matthew McMillan
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Lynch/Oz

Lynch/Oz begins in an empty theatre. A man steps forth from a green curtain in an opening that…

By Andrew Murray
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That Kind of Summer

“Don’t expect to be healed here,” the director of a Quebecois retreat for hypersexual girls tells them in…

By Selina Sondermann
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Tori and Lokita

The Dardennes brother’s latest feature Tori and Lokita sees the eponymous immigrant children (played by Pablo Schils and Mbundu…

By Andrew Murray
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lady Chatterley’s Lover has, in the almost 100 years since it was initially unveiled to the world in…

By Matthew McMillan
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening

While Three Minutes: A Lengthening is ostensibly an academic contemplation on the metaphysical nature of film, to describe…

By Matthew McMillan
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White Noise

A direct adaption of Don DeLillo’s 1985 book of the same title, White Noise is a black comedy…

By Guy Lambert
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Utama

Utama is a quiet film of simple living, a loving and hardworking family, and the wait for death.…

By Mae Trumata
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The People We Hate at the Wedding

A more entertaining title than film, The People We Hate at the Wedding, while averting complete disaster, is…

By Matthew McMillan
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Strange World

Strange World is a beautiful, animated exploration of a treacherous and emotive journey to an undiscovered world. Imagined…

By Ezelle Alblas