All articles by Fionnuala Halligan, Chief Film Critic – Page 8
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Reviews‘Ajji’: Busan Review
An old woman sets about taking revenge for the brutal rape of her 10-year-old grand-daughter
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Reviews'Wrath Of Silence': London Review
With fists and feet of fury, a silent hero searces for his missing son in Xin Yukun’s accomplished Chinese western
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Reviews'The Snowman': Review
Tomas Alfredson follows up ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ with a damp adaption of Jo Nesbo’s Nordic crime drama
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Reviews'6 Days': London Review
Toa Fraser directs Jamie Bell as a SAS leader during the 1980 siege of the Iranian Embasssy in London
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Reviews'No Stone Unturned': London Review
A forensic investigation by the renowned documentarian Alex Gibney uncovers the extent of a cover-up in Northern Ireland in 1994
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Reviews'Goodbye Christopher Robin': Review
Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie fail to fully convince as A.A. Milne and his wife
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Reviews'Battle Of The Sexes': Toronto Review
Emma Stone takes on Steve Carell for this real-life story of the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973
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Reviews'Dark River': Toronto Review
Dark River Dir/scr: Clio Barnard. UK, 2017, 89 mins. A close-quarters drama from writer-director Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant, The Arbor), Dark River is a precise, penetrating story of casual farm labourer Alice (Ruth Wilson), who has somehow survived a childhood of sexual abuse at the hands ...
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Reviews'The Children Act': Toronto Review
Emma Thompson stars in Ian McEwan’s adapation of his own novel opposite ’Dunkirk’’s Fionn Whitehead
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Reviews'I, Tonya': Toronto Review
A perfect score for Margot Robbie playing the 90s tabloid sensation and Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding
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Reviews'C'est La Vie!': Toronto Review
A wedding-day zinger from the directors of ’Intouchables’, headed by the wonderful Jean-Pierre Bacri
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'Custody': Venice Review
A menacing drama about domestic terrorism closes the Venice Film Festival’s Competition section
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Reviews'Grace Jones: Bloodlight And Bami': Toronto Review
Pull up to the bumper for a tour of Jamaica and the career of the fabulous Grace Jones
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Reviews'Borg/McEnroe': Toronto Review
Toronto opens its 2017 edition with a recreation of one of the greatest games in men’s tennis.
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Reviews'Racer And The Jailbird': Venice Review
Mathias Schoenaerts and Adele Exarchopoulos star in the latest from ’Bullhead’ director Michael R Roskam.
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Reviews'Angels Wear White': Venice Review
Vivian Qu’s tale of abuse and corruption in China’s ‘gold coast’ marks her out as a force to be reckoned with
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Reviews'mother!': Venice Review
Darren Aronofsky delivers an expressionistic ode to the times we live in.
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Reviews'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri': Venice Review
Frances McDormand is scorching as a small-town avenger in the latest from Seven Psychopaths’ Martin McDonagh.
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Reviews'The Leisure Seeker': Venice Review
Paolo Virzi’s English-language debut stars Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland
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Reviews'Suburbicon': Venice Review
Director: George Clooney. US. 2017. 105 mins. This year in particular, the American dream of the 1950s – so modern and gleaming from the outside – is being recast as built on foundations of racism, abuse and greed, whether that’s the rotten core of fast food in ...