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  • Queer (2024) – Daniel Craig takes a bad trip in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs

    Queer (2024) – Daniel Craig takes a bad trip in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs

    Juliette Howard

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    February 6, 2025

    Daniel Craig is ravenous in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novella of the same…

  • 12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 3 to 1

    12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 3 to 1

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    January 23, 2025

    3. Woman of the Hour – three bachelors Anna Kendrick adds remarkable directing to her panoply of skills…

  • 12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 6-4

    12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 6-4

    Juliette Howard

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    January 5, 2025

    6. Kneecap – rappers rapping “A country without a language is only half a nation,” declares an activist…

  • 12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 9 to 7

    12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 9 to 7

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    January 3, 2025

    9. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – inventors inventing (yet more stuff his poor dog has to…

  • 12 Films of Christmas – or, a colloquial recounting of my mission (à la Santa) to watch and rank twelve 2024 releases

    12 Films of Christmas – or, a colloquial recounting of my mission (à la Santa) to watch and rank twelve 2024 releases

    Juliette Howard

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    January 2, 2025

    12. Red One – security guards guarding Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson adequately stars as Callum Drift, the North…

  • Conclave (2024) – Ralph Fiennes leads Edward Berger’s excellent cardinal cat fight

    Conclave (2024) – Ralph Fiennes leads Edward Berger’s excellent cardinal cat fight

    Juliette Howard

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    December 12, 2024

    Ralph Fiennes leads a star-studded cast with the perfect blend of hesitation and conviction in Edward Berger’s papal…

  • Paddington in Peru (2024) – Threequel takes furry hero on an enjoyable, if slightly muddled adventure

    Paddington in Peru (2024) – Threequel takes furry hero on an enjoyable, if slightly muddled adventure

    Juliette Howard

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    November 27, 2024

    Hold onto your red-stained bucket hats – everyone’s favourite British bear is back on the big screen. The…

  • Anora (2024) – Sean Baker’s Palme d’or is a worthy winner

    Anora (2024) – Sean Baker’s Palme d’or is a worthy winner

    Juliette Howard

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    November 19, 2024

    It only takes Anora’s first shot to be fully sucked in – a pan across a row of…

  • Blitz (2024) – Caricatured London wastes away in Steve McQueen’s wartime drama

    Blitz (2024) – Caricatured London wastes away in Steve McQueen’s wartime drama

    Juliette Howard

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    November 16, 2024

    Steve McQueen has never been one to shy away from difficult topics. 12 Years a Slave, perhaps his…

  • Heretic (2024) – Hugh Grant expertly shepherds faulty religious horror

    Heretic (2024) – Hugh Grant expertly shepherds faulty religious horror

    Juliette Howard

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    November 10, 2024

    Only Hugh Grant can portray two sides of devilishly charming and get away with it. In Scott Beck…

  • Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) – A sequel as conflicting in reception as it is in subject

    Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) – A sequel as conflicting in reception as it is in subject

    Juliette Howard

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    November 3, 2024

    Living up to Joker is no small task. Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, first R-rated film…

  • The Outrun (2024) – Saoirse Ronan navigates between chaos and calm in tempestuous recovery tale

    The Outrun (2024) – Saoirse Ronan navigates between chaos and calm in tempestuous recovery tale

    Juliette Howard

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    October 25, 2024

    Everything feels painfully real in Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun, a tale of loss and recovery in which Saoirse…

  • Lee (2023) – A splendid portrait of the woman in Hitler’s bathtub

    Lee (2023) – A splendid portrait of the woman in Hitler’s bathtub

    Juliette Howard

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    October 5, 2024

    The list of films based on women plucked out of obscurity is infinite, such important stories from the…

  • The Substance (2024) – Coralie Fargeat does what she wants

    The Substance (2024) – Coralie Fargeat does what she wants

    Juliette Howard

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    October 3, 2024

    Here is a film that doesn’t shy away from anything. The Substance, directed by Coralie Fargeat, is one…

  • Blink Twice (2024) – Zoe Kravitz’s stylised horror says too much all at once

    Blink Twice (2024) – Zoe Kravitz’s stylised horror says too much all at once

    Juliette Howard

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    September 23, 2024

    There is a lot to like – and to be disgusted by – in Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut…


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