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Faust – review

Alexander Sokurov’s unique take on the legend of Faust is as visually provocative a film as you are likely to see, writes Jack Jones.…

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Dark Shadows – review

Has Tim Burton returned from the dead with his new Vampire-film Dark Shadows? Josh Winning reports. …

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Café de Flore – review

Parallel narratives unfold in Café de Flore, separated by time and space but conjoined by their shared motifs of love, loss, jealousy and obsession, writes Anton Bitel...…

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Safe – review

In Boaz Yakin's Safe, Statham understands it’s not his dramatic range that draws the crowds, but his brute strength, writes Nikki Baughan...…

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Le Quai des Brumes: BFI’s Jean Gabin Season

Jacob Brookman examines Marcel Carné’s "poetic realist" masterpiece, which was censored by the French Government on its release in 1938...…

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Piggy – review

Even after twelve months of some of the most imaginative homegrown output in recent memory, the appetite for cockneys getting into right old barneys shows no sign of abating, writes John Nugent.…

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Angel and Tony – review

Angel and Tony is a touchingly sentimental film almost as dull as the film’s Normandy grey skies, writes Jennie Tate. …

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Juan of the Dead – review

With a screenplay crammed full of knowing allusions to its forebears, Juan of the Dead relishes the opportunity to take pot shots at the more ridiculous tropes and inconsistencies of a genre he clearly…

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Monsieur Lazhar – review

Monsieur Lazhar handles complex and dark themes gently, avoiding sentiment, never directing our emotions, writes Shezre McMurray.…

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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai – review

Many of Miikes’ 83 movies have not been given international release. But this re-imagining of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 original has been, and for good reason, says Jon Max Spatz. …

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