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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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Reviews'Frank Serpico': Tribeca Review
Dir/scr: Antonino D’Ambrosio. US. 2017. 96mins In 1971, disillusioned New York City cop Frank Serpico took on the systemic corruption he saw in the force and beyond; an action which then saw him labelled as a hero by some, and a traitor by most. With unprecedented access ...
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Reviews'When God Sleeps': Tribeca Review
Up close and personal with Shahin Najafi, the German-based ‘Salman Rushdie of rap’
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Reviews'Dabka': Tribeca Review
Evan Peters and Barkhad Abdi star in a story of a Canadian journalist and Somali pirates which also features Al Pacino
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Reviews'The Circle': Tribeca Review
Social media-based thriller based on Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson
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Reviews'How To Be A Latin Lover': Review
An ageing gigolo gets his comeuppance in the latest from comic Eugenio Derbez, with Salma Hayek, Kirsten Bell, Rob Lowe and Michael Cera in support
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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'Aardvark': Tribeca Review
Zachary Quinto produces and stars alongside Jon Hamm in this tale of family dysfunction
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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'Thirst Street': Tribeca Review
Dir. Nathan Silver. US/France. 2017. 83 minutes A love-struck American flight attendant spirals into a sado-masochistic fixation with a loutish French bartender in Thirst Street, a tale of obsession directed by Nathan Silver in gauzy hues that recall the 1970s. While he’s a prolific indie director, Thirst ...
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Reviews'My Friend Dahmer': Tribeca Review
Director Marc Meyers has a breakout hit on his hands with this graphic memoir-based drama about the serial killer’s early years, starring Ross Lynch
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Reviews'Abundant Acreage Available': Tribeca Review
A North Carolina-set comedy-drama set on a farm starring Amy Ryan and executive produced by Martin Scorsese
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Reviews'The Lovers': Tribeca Review
Director Azazel Jacobs shows a lot of promise in this shrewd, if not altogether satisfying, Debra Winger-starring comedy for A24
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Reviews'Permission': Tribeca Review
Modern Brooklyn-set romcom starring Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens is lifted by a gay parenting subplot
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Reviews'Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2': Review
Returning writer/director James Gunn turns Vol 2 into a family affair, and the Guardians are all the better for it
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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'House Of Z': Tribeca Review
There’s no shortage of fashion drama to feed this documentary about couture’s former enfant terrible Zac Posen
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ReviewsA Gray State: Tribeca Review
A highly-topical and resonant trip down the alt-right rabbit hole, produced by Werner Herzog
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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'A Suitable Girl': Tribeca Review
Dirs: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra. USA-India. 2017. 97 mins.The subject of Indian arranged marriages is a deceptively tricky one to dissect in a documentary, existing as it does at the point where Western cultural beliefs and Eastern traditions meet head to head. And while this triptych ...