All articles by Fionnuala Halligan, Chief Film Critic – Page 10
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Reviews'Pecking Order': Hot Docs Review
New Zealand’s competitive chicken breeders fear fowl play in this highly-entertaining Hot Docs title
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Reviews'Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story' - Hot Docs Review
The tragic story of the late footballer Jusin Fashanu and his sibling John recalls a homophobic, racist Britain of the 1980s
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Reviews'Mermaids': Hot Docs Review
The practice of “mermaiding” is gently examined in this fluid, slippery doc.
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Reviews'Elián’: Hot Docs Review
The five year-old boy found floating in the Florida Straits in 1999 tells his side of the story
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Reviews'Bee Nation': Hot Docs Review
Crowd-pleaser set on Canada’s First Nation reserves opens Toronto’s Hot Docs festival
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ReviewsWhitney 'Can I Be Me': Tribeca Review
It may be unauthorised, but Nick Broomfield’s story of a beautiful diva’s descent into drugs is certainly respectful
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Reviews'Unlocked': Review
Dir. Michael Apted. UK/US, 2017 128 minsUnlocked tests some interesting commercial waters by dispatching a gun-toting CIA operative played by Noomi Rapace into territory previously occupied by men. Bruce, Denzel, Liam, Matt Damon, in the guise of Jason Bourne, or Gerard Butler in “…Has Fallen”, this ...
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Reviews'The Last Animals': Tribeca Review
A former war photographer tracks the shameful ivory trade in a galvanising documentary which is a potent mix of film and message
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Reviews'The Reagan Show': Tribeca Review
Dirs. Pacho Velez & Sierra Pettengill. US. 2017. 74 mins.There’s an otherworldliness to the video footage of Ronald Reagan’s presidency that makes The Reagan Show feel like an elaborately-constructed parable for the Trump era. Did this really happen? Was his presidency, in truth, a not-particularly elaborate, ...
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Reviews'Shadowman': Tribeca Review
A documentary about the 1980s New york graffiti artist Richard Hambleton is intense and involving
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Reviews'Unforgettable': Review
Katherine Heigl’s turn as a divorced bunny-boiler for first-time director Denise Di Novi is trashy, retro fun
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Reviews'Walk With Me': Review
Benedict Cumberbatch narrates this unusual documentary about a spiritual retreat in France under the guidance of renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
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Reviews'Aftermath': Review
A stony-faced Arnold Schwarzenegger comes up against Scoot McNairy in this grim psychological drama based on real-life events
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Reviews'Song Of Granite': Review
Strikingly beautiful, Pat Collins’ unconventional portrait of a traditional sean nós singer is shot mostly in the Irish language.
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Reviews'The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin': Review
A nostalgia-tinged look at the writer of the beloved Tales of the City series
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Reviews'Super Dark Times': Review
A US indie set in the suburbs calls to mind Stand By Me and mostly bears up well to the comparison
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Reviews'Signature Move': SXSW Review
For her big screen debut, web personality Fawzia Mirza plays a closeted Chicago lawyer by day, a smackdown “luchadora” wrestler by night.
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Reviews'Lane 1974': SXSW Review
The summer of love has long since turned sour in this affecting memoir of childhood in a Northern California commune
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Reviews'Beauty And The Beast': Review
Screen-to-stage-to-screen: a quarter of a century later, Disney’s live action Beauty is still mining for treasure
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Reviews'Kong: Skull Island': Review
King Kong is reanimated in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ chest-thumper, a key commercial moment in the Legendary/Warner MonsterVerse franchise.