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Film Review - Wish
Disney's centenary animated feature is bland, soulless, and utterly mediocre
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Film Review — Anatomie d’une chute (Anatomy of a Fall)
Justine Triet’s riveting, ambiguous courtroom drama features a stunning central performance from Sandra Hüller
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Film Review -Napoleon
Ridley Scott brilliantly depicts the titular dictator’s battles, but the relationship with Joséphine fails to convince
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Film Review - How to Have Sex
Molly Manning Walker's examination of teenage friendship, partying, and sexual consent proves honest, unsentimental, and thought-provoking
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Film Review - Saltburn
Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike are on splendid form in Emerald Fennell’s arch but compelling gothic drama
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Napoleon: A Stirring Silent Classic Not Just for Film Scholars
Ridley Scott will have his work cut out topping Abel Gance’s 1927 masterpiece
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Film Review — The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth attempt to breathe life into a disappointing prequel to Suzanne Collins’s dystopian trilogy
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Film Review - Dream Scenario
Kristoffer Borgli's tragicomic satire features Nicolas Cage as an unremarkable professor inexplicably appearing in everyone's dreams
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