Genre Drama
The Artist
It is an homage, it is a paean, it is a celebration: a behind-the-screen romantic comedy that fully embodies the glory and goofiness of a neonate film industry.
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The Descendants
It is hugely satisfying to note that Clooney looks as ridiculous as the rest of us running flat-footed in sandals – and for this alone, the film is worth a look.
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Drive
When Nicholas Winding Refn compels you to look, look you shall. This is that rare find: a film that’s worth paying to see properly.
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Shame
As McQueen says, ‘Morality is like socialism, great idea but it doesn’t bloody work.’
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She Monkeys
As a study of the seemingly insignificant and often ongoing battles people play out in their every interaction with others in life, Swedish director Lisa Aschan’s debut feature is an interesting spotlight.
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A Dangerous Method
Normally with Cronenberg we’re deep into psychosis, subjectively, down in the dirty of our subconscious and nightmares. Here we’re in therapy.
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Young Adult
As coming-of-age stories go, Reitman and Cody’s Young Adult is a stone-cold sobering one of sheer brilliance, packed with ironic laughs and painful honesty.
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Angel and Tony
A slow-burner of a hit in its native France, Angel and Tony is a small-scale drama about an oddball romance.
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This Must Be The Place
This Must Be the Place is a love letter from an affectionate misanthrope, delighting in the ebullient self-delusion of America, the innocent overblown self-satisfaction, the unexamined eccentricity
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In Darkness
Brutal, dank, disturbing, devastating, sickening and also pretty scary – In Darkness is a film about the Holocaust, yes, but not quite as expected.
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