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Mother!
★★★★★

After the 2010 triumph of Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky returned to the Venice Film Festival...

Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 11th September 2017
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Kills on Wheels
★★★★★

Kills on Wheels gets proactive about tackling diversity in cinema, with awesome results. Director...

Jo Rogers 11th September 2017
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My Pure Land
★★★★★

The short film Two Dosas had already acquainted director Sarmad Masud with festival acclaim (it...

Mersa Auda 11th September 2017
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The Jungle Bunch
★★★★★

Combine a selection of personified animal heroes, an evil koala and his crab henchman, and...

Laura Boyle 11th September 2017
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La Concours (The Graduation)
★★★★★

Director Claire Simon chronicles the arduous and rigorous admissions process into...

Anna Harvey 11th September 2017
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The Drummer and the Keeper
★★★★★

In his own words, Gabriel (Dermot Murphy) has been “overindulging a bit”. This is...

Oliver Johnston 8th September 2017
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IT: A Stranger Things-like remake that stays true to Stephen King’s work
★★★★★

Vicky Munro 7th September 2017
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Primaire (Elementary)
★★★★★

Hélène Angel’s superb Primaire (Elementary) is an honest portrayal of the hardships one...

Lindsay Bellinger 5th September 2017
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Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast
★★★★★

Created using a clever combination of archival and recent footage, along with...

Naomi Penn 4th September 2017
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The Lure
★★★★★

X truly marks the spot in British documentary filmmaker Tomas Leach’s new feature The Lure, detailing...

Chloe Sizer 4th September 2017