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Category Archive: Reviews

Review: Nyad (2023)

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Mother Nature is the foe in this inspiring sports biopic, in which retired open water swimmer Diana Nyad […]

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Review: Elvis (2022)

Overblown, gimmicky, stylised – and utterly mesmerising. Baz Luhrmann harnesses the visual power of cinema to take us […]

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Review: Benediction (2021)

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The troubled life of WWI soldier and acclaimed poet Siegfried Sassoon is the subject of Terence Davies’ affecting […]

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Review: The Duke (2020)

An unlikely art heist carried out in the name of social justice in 1960s Britain is the subject […]

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Review: At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

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The troubled final years in the life of artist Vincent van Gogh are the subject of this intimate […]

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Review: Dark Waters (2019)

A tenacious environmental lawyer comes up against the might of a multinational chemical firm when he investigates potential […]

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Review: The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)

Melissa Leo takes on the role of feisty Madelyn Murray O’Hair, founder of the controversial group American Atheists, […]

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Review: The Laundromat (2019)

Meryl Streep leads a stellar cast in Steven Soderbergh’s quirky but uneven journey to the dark heart of […]

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Review: The Wrong Man (1956)

Henry Fonda is wrongly accused of armed robbery in this interesting fact-based entry in the filmography of the […]

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