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Film Review - Speak No Evil

Film Review - Speak No Evil

Hollywood pointlessly remakes and declaws another European gem, but James McAvoy's muscular performance provides a modicum of compensation

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Sep 14, 2024
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Speak No Evil, a 2022 Danish horror film from director Christian Tafdrup, was released directly to streaming in the UK. Extremely irritating for an old-school, cinema-first, stick-in-the-mud like yours truly, and doubly annoying, as it turned out to be a rather outstanding piece of work. The finale in particular proved splendidly distur…

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