All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 18
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‘Greed’: Toronto Review
Michael Winterbottom takes aim and fires at Britain’s ‘king of the high street’
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‘Henry Glassie: Field Work’: Toronto Review
Cleverly constructed and heartfelt documentary about American folklorist Henry Glassie
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‘Wet Season’: Toronto Review
A Singapore teacher develops an unexpected bond with one of her students
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‘The Sleepwalkers’: Toronto Review
The fraught relationship between a mother and daughter comes to the boil at a family celebration
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‘Human Capital’: Toronto Review
The lives of two families become intertwined after a fatal hit-and-run accident and shady business deal
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‘Maria’s Paradise’: Toronto Review
Big-screen treatment of a controversial Finnish preacher who claimed she could communicate with the dead
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‘Hava, Maryam, Aleysha’: Venice Review
With her debut feature, Sahraa Karimi explores the lives of three Afghan women
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‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’: Toronto Review
Dev Patel gives a career best performance as the titular character of Armando Iannucci’s freewheeling Dickens adaptation
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‘The County’: Review
An isolated Icelandic dairy farmer takes on a corrupt cooperative which threatens her livelihood
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‘O Fim Do Mundo’: Locarno Review
Basil Da Cunha’s impressive second feature is set in the slowly gentrifying Reboleira district of Lisbon
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‘Technoboss’: Locarno Review
A highly idiosyncratic comedy/musical that might just achieve cult status
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‘A Voluntary Year’: Locarno Review
A German father-daughter comedy/drama which calls to mind ‘Toni Erdmann’
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‘Instinct’: Locarno Review
An erotic thriller starring Carice Van Houten from ‘Game Of Thrones’, this ’Instinct’ feels quite basic
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‘Echo’: Locarno Review
Rúnar Rúnarsson’s doc/fiction hybrid examines life around the Icelandic festival season
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‘7500’: Locarno Review
Flawed but impressive, Patrick Vollrath’s debut is set entirely inside the cockpit of a hijacked plane