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The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) Rebecca Harrison A film that looks good on the surface but fails to say anything meaningful about its characters or their conflict.
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After Love (2020) Pamela Hutchinson Khan’s filmmaking is as fastidious and as deceptively restrained as his heroine.
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Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai (2020) Tony Rayns The panorama of life in this stratum of Mumbai society, from the secretive, unneighbourly political aide on the top floor to the defensive chancer on the ground floor, is well drawn, often wittily scripted and always convincingly acted.
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Gunda (2020) Ben Nicholson Berger described the abyss of non-comprehension across which humans look at animals, and Gunda attempts to bridge it, just a little.
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I Am Samuel (2020) Alex Ramon The tentative hopefulness of I Am Samuel’s perspective tilts into uplift with the inclusion of Eric Wainaina’s theme song ‘When Darkness Comes’, with its decidedly on-the-nose lyrics...
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The Father (2020) Matthew Taylor Anthony Hopkins is at his outstanding, Oscar-winning best as a confused and paranoid dementia-sufferer in Florian Zeller’s disquieting debut film.
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Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2020) Ben Walters Written and directed by Monica Zanetti, the film benefits from engaging, sympathetic performances from Hawkshaw and Terakes, the former’s fretting and latter’s directness both convincingly rooted in varieties of vulnerability.
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The Reason I Jump (2020) Jason Anderson A valuable and compelling addition to the growing canon of features and documentaries on the subject because of the ways it prioritises the perspectives of autistic individuals and their families.
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Luca (2021) Thomas Flew An affable and enjoyable highlight.
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In The Earth (2021) Hannah McGill It is in between these boundaries – artist and scientist, natural and supernatural, disrupted present and dystopian future – that this film finds its fertile ground.
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It Must Be Heaven (2019) Jonathan Romney The consistent theme of It Must Be Heaven is that the world, not just Elia’s home, is a funny place, but the film is funny in a way that feels tired, often mirthless, and – as reflected in his screen persona – just a little testily supercilious.
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The Filmmaker's House (2020) Ben Nicholson A final scene that combines the limits of hospitality, the end of Isaacs’s authorial control, and a small act of generosity provides a fitting grace note.
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Fatima (2020) Kim Newman Marco Pontecorvo tells the story of a 1917 Marian apparition in Portugal from the believer’s point of view, but neglects its historical context.
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Sweat (2020) Ela Bittencourt Whether viewers will be swayed by such patness is certainly an open question, but Sweat does manage to introduce a few intriguing discomforts, before it rushes to blot them away.
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In the Heights (2021) Beatrice Loayza Still, the dearth of imagination, curiosity, and care is staggering.
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F9 The Fast Saga (2021) Kim Newman The image you’ll take away from this isn’t the car in space but a tiny moment as Brewster smiles when something goes right.
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Ultraviolence (2020) Alex Ramon Where Injustice was lucid, focused and persuasive, Ultraviolence ends up mostly hectoring, obvious and diffuse.
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Freaky (2020) Kim Newman The stars enjoy themselves hugely as the mixed-up antagonists.
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Another Round (2020) Jessica Kiang Some viewers may long for a more outright condemnatory or celebratory narrative, but if Another Round opens with Kierkegaard, ultimately it ends up espousing the beautiful ambivalence of a different philosopher... Homer Simpson.
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Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac (2021) Kaleem Aftab The strength of this doc lies elsewhere, in its more robust and authoritative storytelling style and professional sheen that make it more difficult to call it circumstantial and speculative.
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French Exit (2020) Graham Fuller Moodily etched by Tobias Datum’s low-lit photography, Frances and Malcolm’s Paris escape is enlivened – and her icy hauteur thawed – by the oddballs who move in with them, including Mme.
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Maeve (1982) Trevor Johnston Maeve remains a unique, irreplaceable time capsule, whose impassioned, intelligent response to a troubled era that affected both personal and political spheres still burns with a cool, ardent flame of inspiration.
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First Cow (2019) Nick James Reichardt gives us a deliciously laconic vision of the pioneer American melting pot with this playful, poignant fable of a couple of furtive cake-bakers in 1820s Oregon.
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Martin Eden (2019) Giovanni Marchini Camia Pietro Marcello transposes Jack London’s novel from California to Italy in a sweeping, ravishing adaptation which creates a grand metaphor for 20th century Italian society.
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Devika Girish With Summer of Soul, Questlove gives solidity to their memories, ensuring their due place in the annals of American history.
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Everything Went Fine (2021) Elena Lazic The film’s title is therefore both sincere and bittersweet, a summary of the profound affection and of the compromises that make up often fraught but somehow loving family bonds.
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The Velvet Underground (2021) Nicolas Rapold Todd Haynes eschews music documentary conventions to pen an ode to Cale, Reed, Tucker & Co. as vibrant as their music.
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) James Lattimer Yet while the true story of a Japanese soldier marooned in an endless, ultimately self-created conflict has obvious dramatic potential, the film’s humdrum dramatization lacks the necessary visual or narrative finesse to keep viewers absorbed.
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Cow (2021) Jessica Kiang Luma the cow stars in Andrea Arnold’s passionate and confrontatively immersive dairy industry documentary.
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Ahed's Knee (2021) Caspar Salmon Though the film drags a little towards the latter stages, becoming a mite overwrought as Y. confronts Yahalom, its heartfelt urgency still pervades overall, making it a startlingly vital and experiential take on a burning political subject.
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Black Widow (2021) Kim Newman Vehicle chases wreak havoc on busy Hungarian streets, a mid-film set-piece is stronger than the overfamiliar climax, and wildly fantastical elements don’t quite gel with the generally sombre, low-key, scruffy tone of the personal story.
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Benedetta (2021) John Bleasdale It is difficult to tell how seriously to take the film, and how seriously the film is taking itself.
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Hit the Road (2021) Leigh Singer Panah Panahi’s debut feature is a stunningly assured road movie which balances emotional nuance with a bubbling undercurrent of political critique.
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Flag Day (2021) Anna Smith Far from Penn’s finest work, Flag Day is ultimately so busy it becomes surprisingly boring.
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Mothering Sunday (2021) Leigh Singer Mothering Sunday points a way to a future where filmmakers can go back to much-visited times and dare to do things differently.
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Ali & Ava (2021) Sophie Monks Kaufman Barnard presents a type of romance that involves not escape from one’s problems but acceptance of another’s.
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Întregalde (2021) Caspar Salmon Director Radu Muntean strands three aid volunteers, an elderly hitchhiker and their 4x4 in a boggy forest in the titular region of Romania, with results at once darkly comic, tense and humanising.
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Bergman Island (2021) Elena Lazic Bergman Island is a comparatively less edgy proposition and a window into the creative process that feels reductive, a sketch of a sketch of a movie that is too meta for its own good.
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Three Floors (2021) John Bleasdale The problem overall is that Moretti, despite his acting role and his credits as writer and director, seems unwilling to inject anything of himself into the film. It’s unusually po-faced, with hardly any humour.
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The French Dispatch (2021) Leigh Singer Poignant moments like this feel like Anderson is evoking a deeper, more personal, even contemporary resonance than just a pastiche tribute to great journalists of the past.
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The Tsugua Diaries (2021) Giovanni Marchini Camia All this meta-waggishness is very self-satisfied, to be sure. And yet, through the thick blanket of irony gradually emerges genuine feeling, and the inverted chronology builds to a celebration of community that is heartfelt and poignant.
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Deerskin (2019) Jonathan Romney A brisk black comedy featuring flourishes of farce.
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Titane (2021) John Bleasdale Julia Ducournau’s second feature is a motor-minded explosion of oily eroticism with a still-beating heart of emotional tenderness under its bonnet.
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The Witches of the Orient (2021) Jonathan Romney All this is fun and often exciting, especially as it builds towards the team’s Olympic triumph.
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Nowhere Special (2020) Gabrielle Marceau Overall, Nowhere Special feels grounded and genuine; the production design is detailed and true to life and the cinematography is unshowy, leaving ample room for Norton’s moving and understated performance.
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In Front of Your Face (2021) Becca Voelcker A piognant and typically minimalist story set beneath the shifting skyline of Seoul.
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France (2021) Giovanni Marchini Camia Bruno Dumont presents an excoriating satire of sensationalist TV news, as symbolised by Léa Seydoux’s eponymous reporter and her overdue spiritual crisis.
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Paris, 13th District (2021) Elena Lazic It’s a shame that despite a charismatic cast Audiard ultimately lets his evocative black-and-white fall on the side of artifice, to the service of an ultimately reductive vision.
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After Yang (2021) Jessica Kiang Kogonada’s second feature extracts an emotional core from artificial intelligence when a family’s robot child ‘dies’, but the film dodges the reckoning with big questions that its premise promises.
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The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021) Nicolas Rapold The Year of the Everlasting Storm leads with a past master of confinement, Jafar Panahi, and has a grand finale by Apichatpong Weerasethakul that, typically enough, lets slip the bonds of conventional consciousness and perception.
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