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Review of The Green Fog (2018)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for Screen International (2,241) on 21 Feb 2018

A dazzling, studious exercise in found footage excavation and reconfiguration, laced with tongue in cheek…

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Review of The Bookshop (2017)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for Screen International (2,241) on 19 Feb 2018

Ironically, given the subject, the script is stilted, with actors often stuck on pause and not even the silver-tongued Nighy able to coax more…

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Review of The Philadelphia Story (1940)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 22 Nov 2017

An effervescent social satire that pokes fun at all sides in the class war…

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Review of Maggie (2015)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Despite Schwarzenegger's presence, this is not an action movie in the slightest, but a sombre account of loss in the most horrific circumstances,…

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Review of Miss Julie (2014)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

Chastain's performance feels too skittish, if not a little mad straight out of the blocks, playing into the hands of Strindberg's chauvinistic…

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Review of The Wolfpack (2015)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

The result is a multi-layered narrative, slightly tricky and elusive in form, but with subjects who are refreshingly, touchingly frank…

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Review of Manglehorn (2015)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 21 Nov 2017

This no-thrills character-driven drama is no Godfather, but Pacino has recognised and grabbed an opportunity to remind us just how great he…

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Review of Life (2014)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 Nov 2017

Dean's struggle with the fame that was just around the corner, and Stock's determination to get the scoop that would transform his own career…

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Review of White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 Nov 2017

Rising star Woodley is adding some raunchiness to her image; but her failure to make foul-mouthed, overly sex-obsessed Kat particularly likeable…

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Review of Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 Nov 2017

It's great stuff, silly and stirring and romantic, made at a time when thrills could be achieved without special effects and heroism conveyed…

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Review of Last Flag Flying (2017)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 10 Oct 2017

On paper, it's a timely and enticing prospect. Yet it's not the impactful film it could have been…

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Review of On the Road (2016)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 05 Oct 2017

This is the no-frills reality of the road, with none of the usual rock and roll clichés and histrionics…

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Review of After Lucia (2012)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for Sight and Sound (827) on 28 Aug 2017

[After Lucia] is a powerful study of grief and abuse…

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Review of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 23 Aug 2017

While some may cynically dismiss Gore's presence at the heart of these films as self-aggrandising, there's no doubting the sincerity and passion…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 10 Aug 2017

It's such an original conceit, perfectly matched by the execution: the alternately plaintive and strange soundtrack, cinematography that places…

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Review of Step (2017)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 10 Aug 2017

The portrait of the girls, their hard-up but loving parents (two are single mums, men being conspicuous by their absence) and the school staff…

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Review of The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2017)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The List (2,018) on 18 Jun 2017

As Swinton and co gather around the white-haired old chap with gleaming eyes, what's most striking is that the films are not just about him,…

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Review of Gifted (2017)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 15 Jun 2017

The clever trick of Gifted is that the genius in question is too young to have any idea of the problems she may face…

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Review of Unforgettable (2017)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 Apr 2017

Within seconds -- literally seconds -- of Unforgettable it becomes apparent that this is the kind of film that in the late Eighties and Nineties…

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Review of Aquarius (2016)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for The List (2,018) on 20 Mar 2017

An effective, slow-burn drama, with moments of humour, tension and mysteriousness as the lone woman's situation - isolated in her deteriorating…

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