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








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