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  • The Good Boss (2021)
    Review preview for The Good Boss

    The balance of Javier Bardem's central performance as the CEO of the title is what elevates this from being another run-of-the-mill satire.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Trouble brews at a factory after a boss finds himself in line for an award for excellence.
  • Mondays In The Sun (2002)
    Review preview for Mondays In The Sun

    It's like Boys From The Blackstuff, Spanish-style, a tragic story, told with love and black humour.

    Symon Parsons · 4 out of 5
    Men without jobs in Galicia share friendship, black humour and alcohol.
  • The Night Of The Sunflowers (2006)
    Review preview for The Night Of The Sunflowers

    Ultimately, this morally ambiguous curiosity has too much chill and not enough thrill.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Violence bubbles up in small town Spain.
  • Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006)
    Review preview for Salvador (Puig Antich)

    Where we should be caught up in the emotion of a man staring death in the face, we are, instead, marvelling at the sudden clunky switch from Seventies crime thriller posturings to run-of-the-mill prison melodrama.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Biopic of a Catalan anarchist.
  • The Sea Inside (2004)
    Review preview for The Sea Inside

    Bardem's performance is astonishing, not so much in his ability to mimic a wasted body, but by capturing the essence of a lively intelligence.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    True story of a quadriplegic Spanish poet who fights for the right to die.

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