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Black Bag 2025
Steven Soderbergh’s downbeat, affectless spy comedy My Guardian review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/07/black-bag-review-michael-fassbender-and-cate-blanchett-intrigue-in-marital-espionage
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A Touch of Love 1969
A solemnly paced drama about a well-off young woman getting pregnant and deciding on unmarried motherhood - a somewhat bizarre, twinkly-eyed performance from Ian McKellen as the baby’s conceited father. My Guardian review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/12/a-touch-of-love-review-margaret-drabbles-single-mother-drama-is-a-vivid-60s-time-capsule
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On Falling 2024
Laura Carriera’s film about the human cost of the online shopping revolution. My Guard review: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/24/on-falling-review-the-strip-mining-of-an-online-warehouse-workers-sanity
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The Rule of Jenny Pen 2024
A scary and intimately upsetting horror about bullying and elder abuse. My Guardian review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/12/the-rule-of-jenny-pen-review-john-lithgow-pulls-the-strings-in-care-home-horror-geoffrey-rush
