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Review of Girlhood (2014)

By Sue Harris (1) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 May 2015

This is no quietly incremental coming-of-age narrative, but a brash, at times distressing series of snapshots of the life of undereducated…

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Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Thirza Wakefield (8) for Sight and Sound (827) on 30 Apr 2015

Mulligan is terrific in this role, her multivalent delivery of the dialogue doing much to enrich her character…

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Review of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 23 Apr 2015

Roy Andersson is a single-panel absurdist who subverts the traditional set-up and knockdown gag structure, landing his punchlines like rimshots…

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Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

By Kim Newman (791) for Sight and Sound (827) on 23 Apr 2015

When it reaches its extended climax, however, Age of Ultron perfectly delivers huge action scenes with the requisite smaller heroic beats…

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Review of Jauja (2014)

By Adrian Martin (6) for Sight and Sound (827) on 09 Apr 2015

For all its evocation of the 'classical' western, Jauja also, at moments, conjures a chilled-out Alejandro Jodorowsky -- less obviously surrealistic…

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Review of Wild Tales (2014)

By Mar Diestro-Dópido (6) for Sight and Sound (827) on 27 Mar 2015

Each morsel of well-rounded, perfectly structured storytelling becomes part of a coherent, exuberant whole, linked as much as anything by a…

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Review of Kes (1970)

By Jack Ibberson (1) for Sight and Sound (827) on 16 Mar 2015

Kes, admirably photographed by Chris Menges (who was camera operator on Poor Cow) is not to be lightly dismissed; and Loach's success with…

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Review of Run All Night (2015)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Mar 2015

The talking point today will be about how Run All Night is one of many Neeson action movies, but what will be remembered years later is that…

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Review of Dreamcatcher (2015)

By Sophie Mayer (12) for Sight and Sound (827) on 05 Mar 2015

From street to cell, this is a precise, thoroughgoing indictment of the systemic sexism, racism and classism that creates a climate of endemic…

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Review of Maidan (2014)

By Hannah Mcgill (136) for Sight and Sound (827) on 20 Feb 2015

One of this film's many intriguing aspects is the emphasis it places on the continuation of ordinary, busy, trivial life in the midst of a…

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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Jane Giles (2) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 Feb 2015

One suspects that Taylor-Johnson was never free even to push at the edges of sexual representation, and the film's lack of explicit imagery…

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Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Jane Giles (2) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 Feb 2015

One suspects that Taylor-Johnson was never free even to push at the edges of sexual representation, and the film's lack of explicit imagery…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Roger Clarke (9) for Sight and Sound (827) on 13 Feb 2015

Most of all it's a film about love -- love that's a little frayed around the edges sometimes but straightforward, funny and true…

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Review of Selma (2014)

By Ashley Clark (57) for Sight and Sound (827) on 05 Feb 2015

The famed American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr has been strangely under-represented in the cinema…

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Review of National Gallery (2014)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Sight and Sound (827) on 04 Feb 2015

We're used to documentaries having a pedagogical or activist itinerary, but Wiseman's have become fastidiously unpedantic -- his simple Terence-like…

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Review of Inherent Vice (2014)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Sight and Sound (827) on 30 Jan 2015

The thing Inherent Vice has going is its sense of always plucking at the fringe, the conviction that the central characters aren't necessarily…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Calum Marsh (242) for Sight and Sound (827) on 16 Jan 2015

Chazelle, training a keen eye on the proceedings, seems to delight in the spectacle of relentless punishment…

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Review of Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012)

By Naman Ramachandran (4) for Sight and Sound (827) on 12 Jan 2015

Gangs of Wasseypur is, then, an adrenalin shot of a film, powered along by an inventive score by Sneha Khanwalkar that's a grab-bag of diverse…

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Review of Le Week-End (2013)

By Lisa Mullen (17) for Sight and Sound (827) on 06 Jan 2015

It proves again that films made for grown-ups can be more nimble-footed and fresh-faced than anything aimed at the youth market…

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Review of Pride (2014)

By Ben Walters (136) for Sight and Sound (827) on 05 Jan 2015

Small moments of thoughtless homophobia and union-bashing stick in the craw, successfully engendering empathy across apparently wide distances…

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