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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review –…

It’s never easy to deliver a sequel to a successful whodunnit, much less a threequel. At this point, the amateur sleuths have begun

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Christy review – this ain’t ringing no box office…

When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was

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The Carpenter’s Son review – FKA Twigs’ Mary is…

In the beginning there was nothing and then there was light. Or in the instance of The Carpenter’s Son, in the

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Sisu: Road To Revenge review – a Suomi western

It is that Finnish word ​“that cannot be translated” again, and yet which is translated, also again, in opening text, as ​“a

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Wicked: For Good review – Chu is as much a fraud…

The accusation of ​“all style, no substance” gets thrown around often, sometimes appropriately, but what about a film that has neither style

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Predators review – one of the most valuable…

Despite only running between 2004 and 2007, To Catch a Predator had an indelible impact on popular culture. Fronted by the

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The Thing With Feathers review – simplistic…

Gluttons for emotional punishment would do well to seek out Dylan Southern’s The Thing with Feathers, an ickily-stylised screen adaptation of

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Jay Kelly review – the Clooney of it all…

While Kelly reckons with his own personal failings – occasionally detailed in flashbacks filling out his path to stardom –

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Predator: Badlands review – a strangely wholesome…

Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles,

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Anemone review – Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to the…

The hallowed performer and auteur of acting, Daniel Day-Lewis, is a man who perpetually has his out of office on, though