Film + Reviews
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Barry Jenkins’s Oscar-nominated coming-of-age film is a heartbreaking, uplifting, minor-key masterpiece
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Even Anna Chancellor can’t rescue this dire dramedy about a woman with five days to live
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Keanu Reeves is back in full force for an elegantly violent sequel
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Sally Potter’s The Party, Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House and a magical refugee story from Aki Kaurismäki stood out. But this year’s real Berlinale finds came from Chile and China…
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The third and final Wolverine film is a poignant study of ageing and infirmity, as the arthritic mutant holes up in Mexico with a declining Professor Xavier
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Matt Damon stars in Zhang Yimou’s laborious fantasy, doing battle with CGI monsters in order to steal gunpowder from Imperial China
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Well-executed follow-up ramps up the shootouts, leaving monosyllabic Keanu Reeves never more than 9mm from a bloody gun battle
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A creak of British actors are transplanted to Canada where they have terminal cancer, an ex-lover and an awful script to contend with. No one’s finest hour
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Scottish record label Chemikal Underground takes members of Mogwai and Franz Ferdinand to France to reminisce about a 1997 festival. One for the fans
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Past lovers Nina Hoss and Stellan Skarsgård border on the unlovable in this slow-paced drama, but Volker Schlöndorff’s film rewards patience for its final twist
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The Finnish screenwriter employs his usual sensitivity to highlight the experiences of two men who flee their homes and form an unlikely friendship
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Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a cabinet minister hosting one of those dos at which shock revelation follows shock revelation, in Sally Potter’s short, smart comedy
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Marx and Engels meet cute in this intense, fervent film about the early development of communism from I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck
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Bafta Shorts 2017 review – a bright, broad-minded movie medley