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Review of God's Own Country (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 31 Aug 2017

A film delicately attuned to rural life in all its lyrical and sublime glories, with special credit to cinematographer Joshua James Richards…

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Review of Detroit (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 24 Aug 2017

Beyond its (admittedly virtuoso) restaging of facts, Detroit falls short, a blunt instrument with little insight into the systemic causes behind…

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Review of Victim (1961)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 17 Aug 2017

It's a strenuously well-meaning, often chewy, sometimes stilted drama about a plummy London barrister's attempt to expose the criminals blackmailing…

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Review of A Ghost Story (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 17 Aug 2017

a sumptuous study in atmosphere that lulls you into a hypnotic trance; a gently profound essay on time and its human limits…

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Review of England Is Mine (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 03 Aug 2017

The lovely thing about England Is Mine is that it mostly eschews cliches…

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Review of 47 Meters Down (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 27 Jul 2017

This is a cheerfully superficial film that orchestrates effective, and sometimes surprisingly nasty, thrills with unpretentious efficiency…

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Review of David Lynch: The Art Life (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 13 Jul 2017

As if you'd want it any other way, Lynch retains that sense of enigma, of velvety mystery that runs through his best work…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 28 Jun 2017

Some scenes carry the innocent charm of a Disney film. Others have a dark intensity that might trouble the most seasoned viewers…

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Review of The Graduate (1967)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 26 Jun 2017

Watching it today I can appreciate the historical significance of The Graduate, and Mike Nichols' direction is sharp and stylish…

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Review of Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 15 Jun 2017

This sensitive, not entirely uncritical, documentary grows ever more poignant as you realise Houston was never able to find a satisfactory…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 08 Jun 2017

This is all pleasantly watchable but it keeps the stakes low, and the mood of subdued sentimentality doesn't feel entirely appropriate for…

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Review of Wilson (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 08 Jun 2017

This is all pleasantly watchable but it keeps the stakes low, and the mood of subdued sentimentality doesn't feel entirely appropriate for…

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Review of Colossal (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 18 May 2017

It's watchable enough though, and Hathaway is terrific. Forget that rampaging CGI giant -- her performance is the film's most special effect…

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Review of Frantz (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 10 May 2017

Essentially, the film is concerned with a deeper mystery: how to deal with the aftermath of a grief like Anna's; and director Ozon tackles…

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Review of Lady Macbeth (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 04 May 2017

Lady Macbeth is a deftly assured cinematic debut from theatre director William Oldroyd: a film of unnerving, accumulating tension, punctuated…

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Review of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2017)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 04 May 2017

Emerging from the well-chosen clips, Jacobs and Moses seem like opposites, but the film prefers to imply rather than dwell on any great differences…

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Review of Toni Erdmann (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 10 Feb 2017

No joke, Toni Erdmann is an extraordinary piece of cinema…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 27 Jan 2017

There is mordant humour here, rippled with moments of extraordinary tenderness, but at heart this is a grave, unconsoling and profoundly sad film…

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Review of The Childhood of a Leader (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 18 Aug 2016

This is a film where even the smallest gesture accrues a sinister weight; a film in which there are no moments of innocence…

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Review of Wiener-Dog (2016)

By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 11 Aug 2016

If the first half of the film sees the director on familiar territory, going around in circles like a dog chasing his tail, with these final…

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