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Review of Another Evil (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Sight and Sound (827) on 17 Aug 2016

Beautifully written, funny and awkward, this plays like Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass's Creep (2014) for ghostbusters, and leaves viewers…

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Review of The Love Witch (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Sight and Sound (827) on 17 Aug 2016

All this [visual attractiveness] is part of the film's seductive artifice, fashioned to mesmerise the viewer in much the way that witch protagonist…

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Review of Sweet Bean (2015)

By Jasper Sharp (1) for Sight and Sound (827) on 03 Aug 2016

For viewers unfamiliar with Kawase's oeuvre, Sweet Bean provides a better entry point than its laboured predecessor, Still the Water…

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Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Henry K. Miller (10) for Sight and Sound (827) on 28 Jul 2016

Despite everything I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it…

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Review of Chevalier (2015)

By Erika Balsom (2) for Sight and Sound (827) on 20 Jul 2016

Chevalier emerges as that fascinating and seemingly paradoxical thing: a feminist film in which women are virtually absent from the screen…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Leigh Singer (56) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Jul 2016

The facts of the case are outlandish enough, but what's even more eye-opening is that so much of it has been documented in real time by directors…

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Review of From Afar (2015)

By Demetrios Matheou (85) for Sight and Sound (827) on 30 Jun 2016

From Afar is an intelligent, daring, brilliantly constructed and acted film, announcing yet another Latin director who understands the virtue…

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Review of No Home Movie (2016)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 26 Jun 2016

It's not hard to imagine having a hostile reaction to this piece of work, so convincing is it in giving the impression of being tossed off…

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Review of The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)

By Gilda Williams (1) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Jun 2016

Constantly you worry that the movie will collapse under the strain of more raw emotions but it rarely falters and never lapses into the predictable…

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Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Jun 2016

The horror that Django Unchained expresses isn't of slavery, finally, but of a filmmaker attempting historical tragedy while shackled by his…

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Review of Fire at Sea (2016)

By Trevor Johnston (624) for Sight and Sound (827) on 09 Jun 2016

Moral courage and filmic artistry exist side by side in this essential offering from a director gradually earning the right to be thought of…

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Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

By Thirza Wakefield (8) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Jun 2016

Grand, plangent and innervating, Cianfrance's latest is more than adequate proof that he's as cut out for the big as for the small of cinema…

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Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Thirza Wakefield (8) for Sight and Sound (827) on 26 May 2016

Love & Friendship is highly entertaining, with Austen's text fitting Stillman's style like a Regency-era glove…

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Review of Risk (2017)

By Isabel Stevens (44) for Sight and Sound (827) on 22 May 2016

The film makes a overwhelming case for Assange as a political prisoner. But Poitras doesn't yield to hagiography…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Catherine Bray (216) for Sight and Sound (827) on 22 May 2016

Practically every surface in the film screams fetish, and, as in his underrated Stoker, Chan-Wook locates eroticism in some unusual places…

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Review of Elle (2016)

By Geoff Andrew (550) for Sight and Sound (827) on 22 May 2016

With such a poised and meticulously detailed lead performance at its heart, rich in ambiguities and resonant overtones, the film is not only…

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Review of Aquarius (2016)

By Jordan Cronk (30) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 May 2016

Kleber Mendonça Filho's second feature and followup to his well-regarded Neighbouring Sounds is at once a refinement and a deepening of the…

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Review of Neruda (2016)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 May 2016

A playfully unexpected spin on a historical drama…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Nick James (16) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 May 2016

Jim Jarmusch makes vibrant films/ Out of quiet distinctions/ A taste for perfect, ordinary things…

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Review of Julieta (2016)

By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 May 2016

A surprisingly flat offering from Spain's most vibrant auteur…

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