Cynthia Nixon's impressive inhabiting of the spirit of Emily Dickinson battles against a stilted and unwieldy script in A Quiet Passion.
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Kickboxer: Vengeance – Movie Review
Kickboxer: Vengeance is a new play on an old theme, lacking the nouveau-camp delights of the original or anything approaching a coherent story.
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Miss Ex – Movie Review: London Korea Film Festival 2016
Miss Ex is a cool, collected and contained work filled with bracingly honest and frequently hilarious ruminations on youth, sex and growing up.
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The Innocents (2016) – Movie Review
With The Innocents, there's a great film in the shadows of an 'acceptable' one. As the detritus of suffering fades, one imagines what could have been.
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Your Name – Movie Review
Makoto Shinkai's Your Name is a romance turned inside out, with its beating heart showing and full of beauty. Highly recommended.
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Burning Blue – Movie Review
Burning Blue is a well-intentioned film which does its subject a disservice with a clunky script and a plot which is both over-wrought and dull.
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Queen of Katwe – Movie Review
With Queen of Katwe, Mira Nair delivers a home run of a Disney crowdpleaser which tugs on the heartstrings without ever really venturing out of its comfort zone.
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The Illinois Parables – Documentary Review: London Film Festival 2016
The Illinois Parables is a powerfully still meditation on place, people and history in Illinois, America's most average state.
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Orange Sunshine – Documentary Review: London Film Festival 2016
Orange Sunshine is billed as a ‘little-known moment in American history,’ although of course it takes place in perhaps the most analysed and written-about decade in the history of the world.
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Voyage Of Time: Life’s Journey – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey is a fantastically ambitious and expansive film by Terrence Malick, 40 years in the making and filled with wonder.