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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review –…

It’s never easy to deliver a sequel to a successful whodunnit, much less a threequel. At this point, the amateur sleuths have begun to identify recurring patterns and

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Christy review – this ain’t ringing no box office…

When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was serious about his craft, and

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The Carpenter’s Son review – FKA Twigs’ Mary is…

In the beginning there was nothing and then there was light. Or in the instance of The Carpenter’s Son, in the beginning there was the dogmatic

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Sisu: Road To Revenge review – a Suomi western

It is that Finnish word ​“that cannot be translated” again, and yet which is translated, also again, in opening text, as ​“a white-knuckled form of courage and

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Wicked: For Good review – Chu is as much a fraud…

The accusation of ​“all style, no substance” gets thrown around often, sometimes appropriately, but what about a film that has neither style nor substance, no matter how

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Predators review – one of the most valuable…

Despite only running between 2004 and 2007, To Catch a Predator had an indelible impact on popular culture. Fronted by the journalist Chris Hansen, the 44-minute

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The Thing With Feathers review – simplistic…

Gluttons for emotional punishment would do well to seek out Dylan Southern’s The Thing with Feathers, an ickily-stylised screen adaptation of Max Porter’s hit 2019 novel

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Jay Kelly review – the Clooney of it all…

While Kelly reckons with his own personal failings – occasionally detailed in flashbacks filling out his path to stardom – his crew have problems of

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Predator: Badlands review – a strangely wholesome…

Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles, there’s a textured sensuality to the

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Anemone review – Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to the…

The hallowed performer and auteur of acting, Daniel Day-Lewis, is a man who perpetually has his out of office on, though in the background he’s probably