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  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★½

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★★½

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  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    ★★½

    Tries to do too much in its already huge runtime, but there are lots of great moments. Viola Davis is having a fantastic time.

    Josh Rivera a real standout in the cast. One to watch.

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

    Did everyone else break into uncontrollable tears during the Turner/Hattie hug scene or just me?

    Groundbreaking mix of POV cinematography and documentary footage, edited phenomenally to create a poetic dive into memory and history.

    Incredible performances all round and a superb script.

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  • Tommaso

    Tommaso

    ★★★★

    There’s often a fine line between the stories an auteur chooses to put on screen and their own life. Tommaso is a perfect example, with writer/director Abel Ferrara setting his new film in his own Rome apartment, and casting his wife and three-year-old daughter in the supporting roles.

    The lead is played by Willem Dafoe, on fantastic form as a New York filmmaker struggling to find a sense of identity and a new home in the city. So does Ferrara manage to turn his personal demons into a something compelling, or is this simply a vanity project from the former Hollywood hell-raiser?

    Full review at: lwlies.com/festivals/tommaso-cannes-film-festival-look-review/

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    ★★★★★

    There aren’t enough expletives or adjectives to express quite how much you need to see Fury Road.

    Its brutal war-torn world, built on the liquid viscera of blood, milk and oil, is a dystopia; but the future that Max (Hardy) and Furiosa (Theron) are fighting for feels gloriously utopian.

    It’s not just the visuals – a fire and brimstone hellscape conjured by Miller and DoP John Seale – that feel shockingly new, but the film’s politics. Fury Road is righteously,…

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