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Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Hilarious in places, unsettling and dark in others, visually stunning, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is pure enjoyment…

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Review of Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

It's all kind of ridiculously over the top, exploitative and moving further from reality as the plot unrolls, yet the film also well enough…

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Review of Marjorie Prime (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

The acting performances are all excellent…

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Review of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

It is through his choices that we get a glimpse into the invisible director's mind and values as he subtly evinces what is important in the world…

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Review of Breathe (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

In excellent though somewhat linear performances, Garfield and Foy deal with their personal catastrophe with stiff upper lips, understated…

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Review of Leave No Trace (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Director Debra Granik...has created a film rooted in realistic details of wilderness life that's a sympathetic but unsentimental comment on…

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Review of Monrovia, Indiana (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Wiseman said that he wanted to share his view of this way of life, and the film he has delivered is a deeply compassionate and wholesome portrait…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Haynes has created a beautiful artefact, layer upon layer, a mainstream film that is both sophisticated and innocent…

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Review of Foxtrot (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Along with the tragic absurdity of everyday life, it reveals the inherited mental scars of Auschwitz that Israeli families still bear, bubbling…

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Review of The Hungry (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Although it is sumptuous to look at - albeit also extremely gory at times...the narrative can sometimes be confusing and the melodrama can…

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Review of A Fantastic Woman (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Quietly respectful, but lacking much in the way of insight, Lelio's Una Mujer Fantástica is a welcome Latin-American addition to the trans…

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Review of Colette (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 11 Oct 2018

It certainly starts conventionally but as it develops the very nature of Colette's extraordinary life takes it into another realm…

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Review of Us and Them (2017)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 09 Oct 2018

It feels as if there are three different films struggling to get out and though it can be tense, this can undercut it at times…

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Review of Widows (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 09 Oct 2018

A strong performance by a magnificent Viola Davis as Veronica Rawlins holds the churning plot together…

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Review of Us and Them (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 09 Oct 2018

It feels as if there are three different films struggling to get out and though it can be tense, this can undercut it at times…

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Review of Assassination Nation (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 03 Oct 2018

Generating grisly, flamboyant splatter-fest violence and counter-violence…

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Review of Lizzie (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 03 Oct 2018

As Lizzie, Sevigny's blows are struck against an oppressive patriarchy, with superb support from Kristen Stewart as the family's Irish maid…

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Review of Wildlife (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 02 Oct 2018

Paul Dano's directorial debut is a scorching coming-of-age drama of a family coming apart in a Montana town threatened by wild fires…

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Review of Crystal Swan (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 02 Oct 2018

Alina Nasibullina is charismatic as Velya…

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Review of Climax (2018)

By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 02 Oct 2018

Climax is an extreme experience. The film is mesmerising and, in places, gruelling to watch. And when Gaspar Noé has drained you, it ends…

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