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The title is ironic. This film at first might appear to be about the innocence of childhood, but writer/director Eskil Vogt’s story soon becomes something much darker.
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Terence Davies’s biopic of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon is flawed but totally fascinating.
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Memoria, the latest film from Palme d’Or prize-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is a fresh and worthy instalment in the rich history of sensory, slow cinema.
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Director Gaspar Noé who brought you the almost unbearably painful 20 minute rape sequence in Irreversible now takes an equally unrelenting look at old age.
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In the seventy odd years they have been together, Barry and Joan Grantham embody a living history of musical and comedy entertainment, as this delightful documentary demonstrates.
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We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, directed by Jane Schoenbrun, is a physically tight yet mentally sprawling debut feature that is as visually unnerving as it is conceptually enigmatic.
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A 19th century treasure-hunter’s journal inspires a journey to seek out and surf a mythical, never-ridden wave in the dangerous Atlantic waters surrounding the Savage Islands.
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Like a warm comforting duvet, the second Downton Abbey film – a spin-off from the TV series – has come to us to the delight of its many fans. Bringing back almost all of the well-known characters from Julian Fellows’ TV series.
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Fascinating documentary about a woman who changed the whole way of American cookery. Unexpectedly finding herself a star of TV, Julia Child brought French cooking to her home country.
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Your Mum and Dad is a documentary film combining multiple personal stories of intergenerational trauma, woven together with spectral-like archive footage.
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