All articles by Allan Hunter
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‘To New Beginnings’ review: Paprika Steen-directed drama sees friendships unravel in Copenhagen
The Danish actor-turned director’s wry ensemble piece takes place at a New Year’s Eve party
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‘Retreat’ review: A school for the deaf may not be all it appears in atmospheric UK thriller
The latest from UK filmmaker Ted Evans features a deaf principal cast and the use of British Sign Language
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‘Short Summer’ review: Delicate debut depicts a Russian childhood in the shadow of war
Nastia Korkia’s drama, set during the second Chechen war, plays Hamburg after winning Venice’s Lion of the Future award
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‘Seven O’Clock Breakfast Club For The Brokenhearted’ review: Seoul-set romance explores love and loss
Moving Busan Competition drama follows a young woman struggling to move on from a relationship
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‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ review: Change comes to the Abbey in nostalgic final hurrah
Director Simon Curtis and writer Julian Fellowes serve up a familiar formula of scandal and sentimentality
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‘On The Road’ review: Venice Horizons winner is taut, tender tale of gay Mexican drifter
Writer/director David Pablos sets his story in the ultra-masculine environment of Mexico’s trucking community
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‘Saipan’ review: Steve Coogan and Eanna Hardwicke are a dream team in real-life Irish football drama
Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn explore the 2002 clash between Irish footballer Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy
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‘The Cut’ review: Orlando Bloom gives a knock-out performance in otherwise bland boxing drama
John Turturro and Catriona Balfe also get in the ring for director Sean Ellis
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‘Waking Hours’ review: Revealing Italian documentary follows Afghan people smugglers in Serbia
Uncompromising Venice Critics Week title will reward patient viewers
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‘Memory’ review: Ukrainian filmmaker Vladlena Sandu explores her troubled past in lyrical docudrama
Sandu’s exploration of a childhood spent in Crimea and Chechnya opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori
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‘In Transit’ review: Jennifer Ehle shines in Jaclyn Bethany’s melancholy chamber piece
Alex Sarrigeorgiou writes and stars in this study of the relationship between a painter and her subject
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‘Once You Shall Be One Of Those Who Lived Long Ago’ review: Bittersweet portrait of a declining Swedish mining town
Documentary follows the few remaining residents of Malmberget in northern Sweden
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‘Mother Of Flies’ review: Fantasia’s Cheval Noir winner is a visceral, thoughtful folk horror
The latest from cult filmmakers the Adams Family is heading to Shudder
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‘The Well’ review: Muted Canadian eco-thriller finds humanity on the brink of collapse
Oscar-nominated documentarian Hubert Davis makes the move into fiction with this sombre drama
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‘Adult Children’ review: Galway prizewinner is smart, breezy US coming-of-age drama
Film Fleadh’s best international independent feature is reminiscent of the work of Lynn Shelton
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‘Fuck The Polis’ review: FIDMarseille winner is a personal, lyrical portrait of modern Greece
Rita Azevedo Gomes’s documentary won the festival’s international competition grand prix
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’Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man’ review: Absorbing portrait of the controversial Irish politician
Trisha Ziff’s documentary blends extensive interviews with a wealth of archive footage
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‘Girls & Boys’ review: A Dublin meet-cute takes a darker turn in promising Irish debut
Writer/director Donncha Gilmore explores the attraction between two very different Trinity College students
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‘Baite’ review: Conventional murder mystery unfolds in 1970s Ireland
Moe Dunford stars in Ruan Magan’s adaptation of Sheena Lambert novel