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Review of She Said (2022)

By Amanda Whiting (2) for The Independent (259) on 14 Oct 2022

As Jodi, Kazan gives the film’s standout performance, delicate and affecting, and when we’re in her company, the stakes of the investigation…

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Review of Amsterdam (2022)

By Jessie Thompson (9) for The Independent (259) on 10 Oct 2022

The thing is, there is a great film in here fighting to get out, but it’s drowned out by manic plotting, self-indulgence, and a thickly laid-on,…

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Review of The Woman King (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 06 Oct 2022

This is kinetic, muscular, easy-to-cheer filmmaking applied to a story ready-made for the silver screen…

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Review of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 05 Oct 2022

This is the rare musical that actually allows its performances room to breathe…

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Review of Smile (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Considering every horror film these days seems to be “about trauma”, Smile suffers from never evolving past the basics – that trauma…

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Review of Smile (2021)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Considering every horror film these days seems to be “about trauma”, Smile suffers from never evolving past the basics – that trauma…

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Review of Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)

By Amanda Whiting (2) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Hocus Pocus 2 doesn’t hit the extremes that made the original a critical flop, but such an enduring rewatch. It’s less menacing…

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Review of Smile (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Considering every horror film these days seems to be “about trauma”, Smile suffers from never evolving past the basics – that trauma…

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Review of Smile (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Considering every horror film these days seems to be “about trauma”, Smile suffers from never evolving past the basics – that trauma…

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Review of Blonde (2022)

By Jessie Thompson (9) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Blonde is not a bad film because it is degrading, exploitative and misogynist, even though it is all of those things…

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Review of Smile (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Considering every horror film these days seems to be “about trauma”, Smile suffers from never evolving past the basics – that trauma…

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Review of Smile (2023)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Considering every horror film these days seems to be “about trauma”, Smile suffers from never evolving past the basics – that trauma…

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Review of My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

It’s a devilishly smart and self-aware take on the current trend for Eighties horror homage, lovingly adapted from Grady Hendrix’s 2016…

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Review of SMILE (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 29 Sep 2022

Considering every horror film these days seems to be “about trauma”, Smile suffers from never evolving past the basics – that trauma…

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Review of After Yang (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 22 Sep 2022

As After Yang gently suggests, there’s no longer a way to conceive of ourselves that’s entirely detached from technology…

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Review of Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 22 Sep 2022

Birdy, in many ways, is basically a pint-sized Hannah Horvath, Dunham’s onscreen alter-ego and the de facto lead of Girls…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 16 Sep 2022

All in all, the film is exactly as you’d imagine a Hollywood remake to be. It’s too po-faced, too stripped of its meanness…

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Review of Ticket to Paradise (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 14 Sep 2022

It’s a joy to watch Julia Roberts and George Clooney fall in love. It’s an even greater joy to watch them bicker…

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Review of Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 08 Sep 2022

Bodies Bodies Bodies is damn funny, often deliriously so…

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Review of See How They Run (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 07 Sep 2022

The film’s so plain in its ambitions – in its sense of giddy, well-intentioned fun – that it feels a little pointless to scorn its more…

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