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Review of Hostiles (2017)

By Philip Kemp (186) for Sight and Sound (827) on 04 Jan 2018

If there's one major oversight in this film, for all its epic scope, it's that despite its sincerely felt subject matter, everything is seen…

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Review of The Big Heat (1953)

By Lindsay Anderson (1) for Sight and Sound (827) on 03 Jan 2018

Above all, it is directed with a dramatic incisiveness, a sharp-edged observation that keeps the pitch of interest and excitement continuously high…

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Review of North by Northwest (1959)

By Penelope Houston (126) for Sight and Sound (827) on 03 Jan 2018

This is the purest piece of entertainment filmmaking we have had from him in some years; it is also, which does not inevitably follow, the…

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Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Sight and Sound (827) on 28 Dec 2017

While I Am Not Your Negro remains an astounding statement about race, a sequel that makes his queerness visible is sorely needed…

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Review of Sanctuary (2016)

By Alex Dudok De Wit (4) for Sight and Sound (827) on 28 Dec 2017

Thoughtful, nuanced and fun, Sanctuary subverts received ideas about disability in its very approach to filmmaking…

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Review of Paddington 2 (2017)

By Kate Stables (138) for Sight and Sound (827) on 28 Dec 2017

[Paddington 2] balances sentiment and slapstick while hymning the joys of multiculturalism…

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Review of The Unseen (2017)

By Kim Newman (791) for Sight and Sound (827) on 20 Dec 2017

A drama of upper-middle-class menace that can't quite bring itself to be a full-on slasher movie, this has a few too many clichés but offers…

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Review of The Unseen (2017)

By Kim Newman (791) for Sight and Sound (827) on 20 Dec 2017

A drama of upper-middle-class menace that can't quite bring itself to be a full-on slasher movie, this has a few too many clichés but offers…

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Review of The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

By Philip Kemp (186) for Sight and Sound (827) on 20 Dec 2017

The sets are detailed and charming, there are the usual lively, instantly forgettable songs, and several favourites (the Swedish Chef, Rowlf)…

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Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Kim Newman (791) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 Dec 2017

Rian Johnson leavens political high seriousness and fan-service tear-jerking with enough charm and humour to prevent The Last Jedi becoming…

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Review of The Disaster Artist (2017)

By Matthew Taylor (3) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Dec 2017

Both The Room and The Disaster Artist prove exceptions to the old adage that you can't polish a turd: while Wiseau saw his 'disasterpiece…

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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Adam Nayman (350) for Sight and Sound (827) on 30 Nov 2017

Not only is Happy End less imperious and prescriptive than its predecessors, it's also more generous, both to its characters and to the audience…

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Review of Beach Rats (2017)

By Hannah Mcgill (136) for Sight and Sound (827) on 28 Nov 2017

The film's mix of murky, up-close realism and dreamy vagueness is reminiscent of Gus Van Sant's and Larry Clark's detailed, faintly voyeuristic…

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Review of Justice League (2017)

By Kim Newman (791) for Sight and Sound (827) on 28 Nov 2017

It's an even messier saga than Dawn of Justice, with a tiresome and whiskery macguffin in which three magic boxes must be brought together…

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Review of Mudbound (2017)

By Adam Nayman (350) for Sight and Sound (827) on 22 Nov 2017

What really lifts the heaviness of Mudbound's story over the top is the excellence of its cast, starting with Mulligan, who plays Laura as…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Adam Nayman (350) for Sight and Sound (827) on 17 Nov 2017

The masterstroke of the script is how it takes a situation that, in almost any other film of this type, would be played for pathos…

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Review of The Florida Project (2017)

By Kate Stables (138) for Sight and Sound (827) on 09 Nov 2017

The film's sympathetic eye ensures it doesn't exoticise the family's plight, or dip into poverty porn…

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Review of Happy Death Day (2017)

By Philip Kemp (186) for Sight and Sound (827) on 09 Nov 2017

Happy Death Day isn't particularly scary, and clearly isn't meant to be - the pleasure lies in the games it plays with its basic storyline,…

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Review of The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

By Lizzie Francke (5) for Sight and Sound (827) on 06 Nov 2017

Are these the laws of desire in a decaying culture built on the husks of atrophied ideals, where longing is a destructive touch and relationships…

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Review of Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare (2017)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Sight and Sound (827) on 06 Nov 2017

Anderson is disarmingly frank, talking openly not just about his frustrations and self-doubt as a filmmaker, but also about his physical discomfort…

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