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Review of We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022)

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

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair doesn’t quite go where it’s expected, or hit the most obvious talking points…

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Review of Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 26 Apr 2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era is whatever the opposite of a French Exit might look like…

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Review of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 21 Apr 2022

What really caught me off guard about The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is its sweetness…

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Review of Benedetta (2021)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 20 Apr 2022

In Benedetta, master provocateur Paul Verhoeven demolishes the line between the sacred and the profane…

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Review of To Olivia (2021)

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

True, grief is universal – but To Olivia never embraces the fact that stories draw their power from specificity. It’s what makes them feel real…

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Review of The Lost City (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 13 Apr 2022

Unfortunately, the further away from Tatum and Bullock you get, the more the film struggles…

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Review of The Northman (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 11 Apr 2022

It’s a big risk to spend that much cash on an auteur-driven historical epic at a time when historical epics have largely fallen by the wayside…

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Review of The Outfit (2022)

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

Even when Leonard’s chatting away with his semi-captors, his words seem rather weightless, as if they were something simply to fill the air…

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Review of True Things (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 01 Apr 2022

True Things isn’t quite as effective as the director’s 2018 debut, Only You, which tracked the fluctuating desires of a couple (played…

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Review of The Bubble (2022)

By Adam White (17) for The Independent (259) on 31 Mar 2022

The Bubble’s script is credited to Apatow and Team America co-writer Pam Brady, and there are occasional flashes of barbed, satirical wit…

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Review of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 31 Mar 2022

At no point here – or during the last film – does it feel like anyone actually figured out how Sonic works as the centre of a live-action movie…

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Review of Morbius (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 30 Mar 2022

‘Spider-Man’ spin-off is too flavourless to even be the wild, untethered disaster some were secretly hoping for…

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Review of Ambulance (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 24 Mar 2022

Ambulance is a purely aesthetic beast, made for those who like their films to look like they’ve been edited by someone in the middle of a…

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Review of Fresh (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 17 Mar 2022

To frame it in Fresh’s own language, all we get here is a single bite – not the whole steak…

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Review of Deep Water (2022)

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

Lyne can laugh at these people because he holds little respect for them, and there’s a general sense of revulsion directed here towards the…

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Review of Turning Red (2022)

By Adam White (17) for The Independent (259) on 10 Mar 2022

In its earliest stages, Turning Red is bracingly different, and filled with an earnest warmth when it comes to themes of girlhood and the panic-inducing…

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Review of The Adam Project (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 10 Mar 2022

The tone here aims for a vague combination of time-travelling romps like Back to the Future and Flight of the Navigator plus time-travelling…

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Review of Red Rocket (2021)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 10 Mar 2022

Rex actively underplays Mikey’s self-interest and cruelty, so that – in a way – the audience becomes an equal target of his manipulation…

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Review of The Duke (2021)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 03 Mar 2022

The Duke reminds us once more, [Michell] knew how to get the very best out of his actors without forcing unnecessary dramatics…

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Review of The Batman (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 28 Feb 2022

Matt Reeves’s take on the Caped Crusader may not be a genre-defining miracle, but it delivers a tapered-down, intimate portrait, while Zoe…

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