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Review of Elena (2014)

By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 May 2014

This is avant-garde autobiographical filmmaking at its finest, and the results are stunningly beautiful, and achingly emotional within a lyrical…

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Review of The Blue Room (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 May 2014

It’s a meticulous and tightly coiled cautionary tale, but it’s hard to imagine any of its characters having life outside the narrow confines…

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Review of A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 May 2014

It’s a lifeless, meandering, overlong (116 minutes…

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Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 27 May 2014

Maleficent desperately tries to create a character whose motivation you will understand and empathize with…

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Review of National Gallery (2014)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 May 2014

Wiseman's film is the most nourishing example of cinematic brain food you'll have all year…

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Review of Party Girl (1995)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 May 2014

It’s a heartfelt and undoubtedly well-meaning film, attempting a character study of a woman of an age and lifestyle that makes her an unusual…

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Review of The Captive (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2014

Retreading Prisoners territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they’re two parts of some sort of Canadian auteur experiment…

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Review of Coming Home (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2014

While tears will be jerked, heartstrings plucked and throats enlumpened, it has to go down as a disappointment in the director’s catalogue…

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Review of Coming Home (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2014

While tears will be jerked, heartstrings plucked and throats enlumpened, it has to go down as a disappointment in the director’s catalogue…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2014

There are ups and downs and soapish highs and lows, but what stops this from ever becoming a telenovela is the riveting wonder of the performances…

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Review of Winter Sleep (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2014

The overwriting of every single discussion smacks less of realistic debate than of a writer/director in the throes of a fit of didacticism…

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Review of Mommy (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2014

There are ups and downs and soapish highs and lows, but what stops this from ever becoming a telenovela is the riveting wonder of the performances…

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Review of Coming Home (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2014

While tears will be jerked, heartstrings plucked and throats enlumpened, it has to go down as a disappointment in the director’s catalogue…

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Review of Mr. Turner (2014)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2014

Mr Turner, though not without flaws, is something of a twilight culmination of Leigh's work, and very much one in which the filmmaker turns…

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Review of Leviathan (2014)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2014

If there was ever any doubt as to Zvyagintsev's position as one of world cinema's foremost auteurs, it's put to rest here…

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Review of The Rover (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2014

Bleak, brutal and unrelentingly nihilist, and with only sporadic flashes of the blackest, most mordant humor to lighten the load, it feels…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2014

It Follows worked like gangbusters as an exercise in atmosphere and allusion, but a little less so as an out-and-out supernatural horror, and…

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Review of Saint Laurent (2014)

By Nikola Grozdanovic (99) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

Perhaps through time this hallucinatory quasi-dream of a biopic will grow in stature, but as first impressions go, the film loves itself so…

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Review of Coming Home (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

While tears will be jerked, heartstrings plucked and throats enlumpened, it has to go down as a disappointment in the director’s catalogue…

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Review of Jimmy's Hall (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

It’s a twee and tweedy period “Footloose,” into which Loach’s trademark left wing sympathies are not so much woven as photocopied and…

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