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Around India with a Movie Camera review: a past that refuses to know its place
Sandya Suri’s thrilling compilation film rejects cinematic diplomacy in favour of a fascinating, occasionally ironic odyssey through the final years of colonial rule, writes Sukhdev Sandhu.
Sunday 18 February 2018 -
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Lady Bird review: Greta Gerwig sketches scenes from an awkward adolescence
Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age drama boasts high-calibre performances but only skims the surface of the relationship between its enigmatic title character and her overstretched mother, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Friday 16 February 2018 -
Infinite Football review: the new rules of the game
Corneliu Porumboiu’s portrait of his eccentric childhood friend with big dreams of reinventing soccer is hilarious, heartbreaking and pleasingly subtle, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Friday 16 February 2018 -
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Film of the week: The Shape of Water swims in lagoons of love and horror
Guillermo del Toro’s bittersweet romance between a mute cleaning woman and an amphibious man cleverly and affectionately updates Hollywood monster movies of the past, writes Kim Newman.
Friday 16 February 2018 -
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Black Panther review: an electrifying, Afrofuturist superhero movie
Ryan Coogler’s spectacular film diverges from one tradition while honouring another, in the process becoming a unusually poignant, political entry in the Marvel franchise, writes Kelli Weston.
Friday 16 February 2018 -
Isle of Dogs first look: Wes Anderson’s charming canine fable
A starry cast, deadpan humour and deft nods to Japanese cinema make this animated film an unusually delightful dystopia, writes Nick James.
Friday 16 February 2018 -
Madeline’s Madeline first look: an unusually bold teen movie that bridges trauma and art
Josephine Decker pauses only to grapple with her own working methods in this thrilling, formally daring drama about an emotionally fraught teenage girl, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
Thursday 15 February 2018 -
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Fifty Shades Freed review: vanilla sex and a cartoon villain
There’s no fun or friskiness in this anticlimactic final film, just the gruelling spectacle of a woman submitting to a tyrannical husband and a ludicrously prolonged revenge plot, writes Violet Lucca.
Wednesday 14 February 2018 -
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Keeping the faith: what Ingmar Bergman means now
As a major London retrospective marks Ingmar Bergman’s centenary, Catherine Wheatley asks whether our new age of uncertainty is a fitting moment for audiences to reconnect with the fearsome visions of spiritual longing and loss found in the director’s Faith Trilogy?
Saturday 10 February 2018 -
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Film of the week: Loveless takes a symbolic hammer to a family tragedy
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest film manipulates the story of a divorcing couple and a missing child to pass comment on Russian politics. It’s a pity it feels so forced, writes Adam Nayman.
Thursday 8 February 2018
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