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Xan Brooks
Film Critic
United Kingdom
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Happening
(2021)
Publish Date: September 6, 2021
"The film plays its private trauma as a harrowing thriller, and showcases a superb performance from Anamaria Vartolomei (...) It’s a serious, gripping and finally honourable film (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
The Box
(2021)
Publish Date: September 6, 2021
"It has important things to say and by and large says them well (...) [Vigas] manages to keep the audience on-board throughout the tale’s twists and turns (…) Rating: *** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
True Things
(2021)
Publish Date: September 5, 2021
"True Things is not a bad film, exactly (...) But it’s unambitious, sometimes clunky and doesn’t wrong-foot us once (...) Rating: ** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Sundown
(2021)
Publish Date: September 5, 2021
"Brilliant (...) What an extraordinary performance Tim Roth gives us here (…) [Sundown] It’s pitiless and pitch-perfect, an existential tour-de-force (....) Rating: ***** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
(2021)
Publish Date: September 5, 2021
"[It] offers street-food for the senses, served with lashings of hot sauce. It’s hardly nutritious but it tastes fine in the moment, wolfed down on the run (…) Rating: *** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Last Night in Soho
(2021)
Publish Date: September 4, 2021
"British writer-director Edgar Wright takes a grab-bag of 1960s ingredients, paints them up and makes them dance to his tune. His film is thoroughly silly and stupidly enjoyable. (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
The Hole
(2021)
Publish Date: September 4, 2021
"It’s not quite a documentary, yet nor is it exactly a narrative feature. It lives alone; the cinematic equivalent of a hermit on a mountaintop (...) Rating:**** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
The Lost Daughter
(2021)
Publish Date: September 3, 2021
"Maggie Gyllenhaal’s accomplished directing debut makes humid, sensual cinema of Ferrante’s novel (...) a captivating miniatur (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Dune
(2021)
Publish Date: September 3, 2021
"Dune reminds us what a Hollywood blockbuster can be. (...) Dune is dense, moody and quite often sublime – the missing link bridging the multiplex and the arthouse (...) Rating: ***** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
(2021)
Publish Date: September 3, 2021
"'Hallelujah' is one for the fans, thorough and informative, like a set of cinematic liner notes, largely content to marvel at the majesty of its subject and the vibrant afterlife of his work (…) Rating: *** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Spencer
(2021)
Publish Date: September 3, 2021
"Larraín’s approach to the material is rich and intoxicating and altogether magnificent (...) Kristen Stewart proves entirely compelling in the title role (...) Rating: ***** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
The Hand of God
(2021)
Publish Date: September 2, 2021
"I’m glad that Sorrentino has got this film out of his system. I’m impressed that it’s emerged so full of bawdy vigour; still raw in the retelling and spiced with delicious set pieces (…) Rating: *** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
The Card Counter
(2021)
Publish Date: September 2, 2021
"The cast keeps it honest and there is much to relish in the film’s moody, meditative intensity. At its best, 'The Card Counter' is wonderfully retro (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
The Power of the Dog
(2021)
Publish Date: September 2, 2021
"[A] beautiful, brawny western (...) It’s the director’s first feature since 2009’s 'Bright Star' and is so confident and well-textured it reminds us what we’ve been missing (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Parallel Mothers
(2021)
Publish Date: September 1, 2021
"It’s a turbulent movie. The ingredients don’t always gel. But it is so generous of spirit that it would be churlish to complain (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
On a Half Clear Morning
(2021)
Publish Date: July 16, 2021
"Dumont’s secular crisis-of-faith drama has much to say about the corrosive effect of our 24-hour news culture. But it is also indecisive and compromised (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Vortex
(2021)
Publish Date: July 16, 2021
"In terms of scope, ambition and execution, it’s one of the finest pictures Gaspar Noé has made (...) 'Vortex' is deliberate, pitiless and perfectly acted in a loose, improvisational style (…) Rating: ***** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
And Tomorrow the Entire World
(2020)
Publish Date: September 10, 2020
"Proceeding along its stealthy course, Von Heinz’s tense, well-textured film treads a chilly, liminal country (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
Hopper/Welles
(2020)
Publish Date: September 8, 2020
"Welles frustrated by Hopper; Hopper tormented by Welles. Wherever these two men are today, one hopes for their sakes that they are not there together (...) Rating: ** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
The Sun
(2020)
Publish Date: September 8, 2020
"A heart-rending story with unexpected depth of emotion (...) it has guts and heart and a grubby, street-smart charisma (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"
The Guardian
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