All articles by Lee Marshall
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Reviews‘Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing’ review: Cinematic, empathetic doc gets in the ring with Japan’s most iconic sport
Erik Shirai’s absorbing film will next play London after berths in Telluride and Venice
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Reviews‘The Fire Within You’ review: Vanessa Scalera’s invigorating performance fuels Italian Christmas-from-hell drama
Edoardo De Angelis’s darkly comic feature premieres in Venice competition
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Reviews‘NAZA’ review: Urgent, gut-punch doc from ‘No Other Land’ directors interviews Israeli operatives about their actions in Gaza
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s wrenching Venice competition film is executive-produced by Jonathan Glazer
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Reviews‘A Good Little Soldier’ review: A magnetic Alba Rohrwacher anchors Stéphane Brizé’s study of toxic workplace culture
Vincent Lindon also stars in timely, darkly comic Venice competition title
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Reviews‘I Matter’ review: Romanian children’s home drama is sometimes conventional, always authentic
Roma actress and filmmaker Alina Serban’s heartfelt feature bows in Venice Spotlight
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Reviews‘Union Town’ review: Fifty years after ‘Harlan County, USA’, Barbara Kopple returns to the frontline of America’s labour struggle
The veteran documentarian’s absorbing portrait of the gig economy is the third in her ‘labour rights’ trilogy
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Reviews‘The Spiral’ review: Paolo Strippoli’s dark Italian family fable promises more than it delivers
Star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi impresses in this stylish but increasingly repetitive Faustian horror
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Reviews‘It Will Happen Tonight’ review: Nanni Moretti’s latest is unashamedly melodramatic Italian romance
Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca star in the director’s sprawling drama which premieres in Venice competition
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Reviews‘Jupiter’ review: Denis Menochet is imposing in blunt, airless French nuclear war drama
Alexandre Smia’s feature debut invites comparisons to Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘House Of Dynamite’
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Reviews‘The Girl With The Leica’ review: Gerda Taro biopic struggles to bring its pioneering photojournalist subject into focus
Alina Marazzi’s lively, mannered portrait of the Spanish Civil War photographer opens Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Sacred Creatures’ review: Canadian siblings have a bizarre trip to Italy in ambitious, erratic magical realist debut
Frieda Luk’s bold drama makes its bow in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘The Dreamed Adventure’ review: Exhilarating Bulgarian borderlands fable makes expert use of non-professional cast
Valeska Grisebach’s unpredictable Cannes Competition entry is led by former geologist Yana Radeva
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Reviews‘La Bola Negra’ review: Penelope Cruz and Guitarricadelafuente star in sprawling exploration of Spain’s queer culture
The works of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca inform Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes Competition title
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Reviews‘Orange-Flavoured Wedding’ review: Adele Exarchopoulos leads Christophe Honore’s propulsive, poignant 1970s ensemble drama
Honore’s latest work also stars Vincent Lacoste and Paul Kircher
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Reviews‘Spring’ review: Assured, tense Lithuanian debut plays out in occupied Ukraine
Strong performances and atmospheric craft anchor a story of quiet resistance and mounting dread
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Reviews‘Ben’Imana’ review: Evocative debut delivers a haunting tale of post-genocide Rwanda
Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s Un Certain Regard title is set against Rwanda’s post-genocide gacaca courts
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Reviews‘Fjord’ review: Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve intrigue in Cristian Mungiu’s underpowered Norway-set drama
Mungiu’s Cannes Competition title sees a Christian family going up against Norway’s child protection services
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Reviews‘Full Phil’ review: Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart relish their roles in Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist comedy
The director’s English-language Cannes Midnight title also stars Emma Mackey
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Reviews‘Sheep In The Box’ review: AI changes the nature of grief in Hirokazu Koreeda’s scattershot, syrupy near-future drama
The Cannes Competition title stars Haruka Ayase and Daigo as grieving parents
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Reviews‘Thanks for Coming’ review: Alain Cavalier’s playful final chapter to his long-running filmed diary
The 94-year-old director’s farewell film plays in Directors’ Fortnight