Simran Hans
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Drive-Away Dolls: a lesbian road trip comedy that feels authentic to the 1990s but stuck there, too
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s self-consciously trashy road movie has some laughs, but at times the jokes just feel dated.
By Simran Hans
Drive-Away Dolls: a lesbian road trip comedy that feels authentic to the 1990s but stuck there, too
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Femme: a modern erotic thriller with looks to kill
By Simran Hans
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Past Lives second look review: Celine Song explores the power of the unsaid
By Simran Hans
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. offers a witty adaptation of Judy Blume’s beloved teen novel
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Neptune Frost: an exuberant, deeply political afrofuturist musical
By Simran Hans
What to watch at LFF
Chee$e: a playful, inventive Caribbean stoner comedy
By Simran Hans
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Elvis: a frenetic jukebox musical that’s heavy on style and light on substance
By Simran Hans
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A-ha: the Movie finds Norway’s synth-pop legends still haunted by the fame dream
By Simran Hans
Features
“We gave them too much power”: how Rocks became a gem by giving its young cast license to shine
By Simran Hans
Interviews
Jordan Peele on Us: “I knew I was gonna forge new ground in the pantheon of doppelganger tales”
By Simran Hans
News
Vanishing directors: five of the best films at IDFA 2019
By Simran Hans
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The Souvenir first look: Joanna Hogg’s potent self-portrait as a young artist
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Honey Boy first look: Shia LaBeouf unearths his own childhood trauma
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High Life first look: Claire Denis floats Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson in mortal space
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Widows first look: Steve McQueen steals the heist genre
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News
Podcast: Six highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
By Kelli Weston, Sophie Brown and others
News
Breaking the silence: Hot Docs 2018 addresses the #MeToo moment
By Simran Hans
Reviews
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot review: Gus Van Sant charts John Callahan’s winding road to redemption
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Grass review: Hong Sangsoo explores the art of (writing about) conversation
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Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. review: troubles of a pop tiger
By Simran Hans
News
The best of Berlinale 2018 – the awards and our critics’ picks
By Geoff Andrew, Patrick Gamble and others
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Moonlight first-look review: masculinity, differently
By Simran Hans
Features
Screening it for themselves: young DIY British film programmers
By Simran Hans
Features
Black Film, British Cinema 2017: from representation to radicalism
By Simran Hans
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Manchester by the Sea review: on the waves of grief
By Simran Hans