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Directed by Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Darkest Hour), The Woman in the Window is a pretentious botch. It wants to be a serious psychological drama and a silly slasher mystery at the same time, but by trying to combine the two, it miserably fails at both....
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Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland is a film in which nothing happens and everything happens. The film finds its protagonist Fern (Frances McDormand) as a nomad and it ends with her still a nomad. There are no big dramatic set pieces in between, just small moments of Fern’s life as she...
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Residents and students alike eagerly await the opening of a new Arc Cinema in Beeston's town centre. Film fans have not got long to wait until cinemas fling open their doors, after months of closure. This week, the cinema confirmed that it will be open to the public from...
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Promising Young Woman directed by Emerald Fennel takes on the issues of sexual harassment and rape culture. These are issues that need more exposure and open discussion within mainstream discourses, however, Fennel’s film adds little new to the conversation....
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Originally named Kanojo (which can mean ‘her’ or ‘girlfriend’) in Japanese, Ride or Die follows the traces after two women who conspire a grotesque murder together....
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I’m not deaf. I’m not a drummer. Yet, Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal feels like a film made for me and I know it will stick with me forever. The film is a character study about drummer Ruben Stone (Riz Ahmed), who loses his hearing and is faced with...
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Sharon Hsieh Featuring Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage, I Care A Lot is an underperformed and loosely structured movie, which shamelessly attempts to bamboozle the audience with a spiral maze of illogical plot twists. The film failed to blend various themes into a melting pot, and instead rather disorderly...