I noted the run time before I saw this and thought, "Hmm, I'm a little tired; I hope I don't nod off!": no chance of that! Had me gripped and guessing throughout. There were times where I genuinely didn't know what was happening/where the story was going but I never lost interest. Steven Yeun was brilliant and perhaps gave one of the most overlooked performances of 2018. The film had everything that I love in and look for: great music,…
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Capernaum 2018
Seriously tough viewing, and indeed, given the subject matter, so it should be. However, whilst I found myself really moved by many of the scenes (the cleaner's kindness in taking Zain in, Zain's loyalty to the infant) and deeply shook by many others (when Zain's sister is forcibly taken away to be married off, the sheer scale of suffering for all characters), I did find myself uncomfortable with what for me seemed like an ill-considered almost Hollywoodesque ending; after the…
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Under the Silver Lake 2018
A movie for, about and critical of people like Andrew Garfield's protagonist: a Hitchockian, Lynchian noir meta-mystery concerned with conspiracies chock full of knowing nods to classic Hollywood. It's a film that comments on corporate greed, religion and the media, and calls out the men who fall back on the external factors that have made them as they are. Indeed, it is how you view this juxtaposition that will I would suggest how you rate the film: if you think…
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A Private War 2018
A film that succeeds wonderfully in parts and was jarring in others. Nevertheless, as you can see from the 4 star rating, it is a film that overall succeeds in its main aim : portraying the absolute need for brave, brutally honest journalism. The non - professional supporting cast and incredibly realistic warzone sets heighten the realism to at times being almost unbearable : to say it is tense and heart-rending is to undersell it.
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