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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 Toni Erdmann (2016)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 May 2016

The visual style is soberly realist, Patrick Orth's photography strictly no-frills…

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Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Geoff Andrew (550) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 May 2016

I, Daniel Blake is as timely today as was Kes in the late 60s or Raining Stones in the 90s…

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Review of The Neon Demon (2016)

By Catherine Bray (216) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 May 2016

The Neon Demon might get the blood pumping temporarily, but it doesn't have staying power…

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Review of Loving (2016)

By Isabel Stevens (44) for Sight and Sound (827) on 18 May 2016

Loving's restrained drama has a strong emotional undercurrent carried by the tender bond Nichols shows between the couple…

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Review of Personal Shopper (2016)

By Nick James (16) for Sight and Sound (827) on 18 May 2016

Assayas's approach to the ghost story manifestations is pleasingly straightforward, and the screenplay's handling of the SMS discussion between…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Alissa Simon (80) for Sight and Sound (827) on 18 May 2016

While some viewers may find the film's length (162 minutes) and a certain repetitiveness off-putting, it gives Arnold scope to capture the…

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Review of Sieranevada (2016)

By Geoff Andrew (550) for Sight and Sound (827) on 11 May 2016

It's a highly persuasive portrait of family life, replete with intimacies, special alliances, tensions, resentments and reconciliations, but…

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Review of Son of Saul (2015)

By Philip Kemp (186) for Sight and Sound (827) on 27 Apr 2016

It has sometimes been suggested that there's little more to be said, in cinematic terms, [about the Holocaust]…

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Review of Prisoner X (2016)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Sight and Sound (827) on 26 Apr 2016

It has a few too many twists for my taste, pushing its already overdetermined plot beyond all grounded credulity, but its point about the bunkered…

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Review of Embers (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Sight and Sound (827) on 26 Apr 2016

Carré weaves from her ensemble amnesi-apocalypse a reflection of the human condition as philosophically compelling as it is emotionally intelligent,…

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Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Kim Newman (791) for Sight and Sound (827) on 24 Mar 2016

This is a superhero film which opens and closes with funerals and requires the world's finest detective and an avatar of truth and justice…

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Review of Cameraperson (2016)

By Jordan Cronk (30) for Sight and Sound (827) on 17 Mar 2016

Cameraperson's unique formal conception and restlessly interrogative assemblage forms a striking and, dare I say, original vision…

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Review of Anomalisa (2015)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Sight and Sound (827) on 11 Mar 2016

Though fellow fatalists Woody Allen (when in Dostoevskian mode) and Todd Solondz occupy similar territory, the arrival of Kaufman's stop-motion…

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Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Ben Walters (136) for Sight and Sound (827) on 03 Mar 2016

As for the Coens themselves, eccentric and critical Hollywood tomb raiders they might be but, like Sturges, they believe sincerely in the value…

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Review of The Lesson (2015)

By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Sight and Sound (827) on 01 Mar 2016

Somewhere in this stinging dialectic we viewers too are confronted and tested to the limits on the value of literature and learning in a deprived,…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Tony Rayns (36) for Sight and Sound (827) on 18 Feb 2016

At its best A Bigger Splash is better than soap…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Matthew Taylor (3) for Sight and Sound (827) on 05 Feb 2016

The uniformly strong ensemble cast largely avoids any grandstanding moments, and manufactured drama is swerved, while Howard Shore's sober…

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Review of Rams (2015)

By Trevor Johnston (624) for Sight and Sound (827) on 04 Feb 2016

To find another film whose straightforward, almost homespun simplicity masks a director in truly confident control of his material you'd probably…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 15 Jan 2016

It is overwhelming but unmoving, a rush of brute force that leaves the nagging afterthought, Is that all there is…

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