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Review of Mothering Sunday (2021)

By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 12 Nov 2021

Mothering Sunday just falls short of a great movie; a radical attempt to shake up period-picture staidness, shot through with strong performances,…

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Review of tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 11 Nov 2021

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut is an affectionate, if flawed, Valentine to both musical theatre and the art of creativity — some…

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Review of Cry Macho (2021)

By James White (109) for Empire (3,446) on 09 Nov 2021

Eastwood’s back with a look at manliness filtered through the wisdom of aging…

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Review of Red Notice (2021)

By Dan Jolin (289) for Empire (3,446) on 03 Nov 2021

Exactly what you’d expect from a crime-caper action-comedy pairing Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds. Nothing more, nothing less…

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Review of Finch (2021)

By Olly Richards (291) for Empire (3,446) on 03 Nov 2021

Tom Hanks is more than enough to make this almost one-man show thrilling and heart-breaking. Prepare to weep. Doubly so if you’re a dog person…

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Review of Spencer (2021)

By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 01 Nov 2021

Though it doesn’t ever make you really feel, Spencer is a bold, compassionate, poetic riposte to standard royal biopics…

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Review of The Card Counter (2021)

By Al Horner (14) for Empire (3,446) on 01 Nov 2021

An ace in the hole from a filmmaker himself unafraid to gamble…

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Review of Passing (2021)

By Nikki Baughan (240) for Empire (3,446) on 29 Oct 2021

An impressive filmmaking debut from actor-turned-director Rebecca Hall which largely avoids cliché or soapboxing about race, featuring two…

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Review of Passing (2021)

By Nikki Baughan (240) for Empire (3,446) on 29 Oct 2021

An impressive filmmaking debut from actor-turned-director Rebecca Hall which largely avoids cliché or soapboxing about race, featuring two…

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Review of Eternals (2021)

By John Nugent (191) for Empire (3,446) on 24 Oct 2021

Director Chloé Zhao’s entry into the superhero world is assured, ambitious and told on a dizzyingly cosmic scale — but even it can’t…

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Review of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 19 Oct 2021

The French Dispatch is a designed-to-within-an-inch-of its-life delight…

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Review of The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)

By Olly Richards (291) for Empire (3,446) on 19 Oct 2021

Further complicating the already indecipherable lore of the first film, The Boss Baby 2: Family Business is nice to look at but unfunny, unengaging…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire (3,446) on 18 Oct 2021

Stark but utterly compelling, this chilling take on Macbeth is a visually stunning tour de force…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire (3,446) on 18 Oct 2021

Stark but utterly compelling, this chilling take on Macbeth is a visually stunning tour de force…

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Review of The Velvet Underground (2021)

By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 15 Oct 2021

The Verdict Underground is hypnotic but clear-eyed, finding a different way to put a musical biography on film…

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Review of Last Night in Soho (2021)

By Beth Webb (40) for Empire (3,446) on 15 Oct 2021

A few flat ideas aside, this is a handsomely made horror film that expertly utilises the frightening talent of its young stars and draws Wright…

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Review of King Richard (2021)

By Alex Godfrey (59) for Empire (3,446) on 15 Oct 2021

As stirring and heart-warming as you’d like, this is a hugely touching family opus…

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Review of The Beta Test (2021)

By Jordan King (10) for Empire (3,446) on 14 Oct 2021

Whilst occasionally breathless to the point of exhausting, there’s nothing second-rate about The Beta Test, a sharp satire on the film industry…

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Review of Halloween Kills (2021)

By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 14 Oct 2021

Despite the odd fun bit of bloodshed, Halloween Kills is mostly tired, tedious and an insult to everything John Carpenter got right first time round…

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Review of Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

By Ben Travis (84) for Empire (3,446) on 14 Oct 2021

There’s a little bit more polish this time, but for all the talented people involved, Let There Be Carnage still has the whiff of a turd…

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