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  • Ben Is Back (2018)
    Review preview for Ben Is Back

    The subject is important and relevant and Peter Hedges avoids the obvious pitfalls with a skilful, honest approach.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A young man who returns home is welcomed by his mother, little realising trouble is coming through the door with him.
  • Boy Erased (2018)
    Review preview for Boy Erased

    This is, as a whole, a finely crafted piece of cinema which handles its explosive subject with great delicacy.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
  • French Exit (2020)
    Review preview for French Exit

    Pfeiffer’s delivery is fantastically inscrutable.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A Manhattan socialite whose inheritance is running out moves to a borrowed apartment in Paris with her son and cat.
  • Honey Boy (2019)
    Review preview for Honey Boy

    This is a highly personal work that opens the door on some dark truths of Hollywood and fame, but it also doesn’t quite know what to do to elevate itself beyond a peep show into human misery.

    Jeremy Mathews · 2.5 out of 5
    A child TV star and his ex-rodeo clown father face their stormy past through time and cinema.
  • Lady Bird (2017)
    Review preview for Lady Bird

    Her honesty cuts through you like an Arctic storm

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Teenage traumas in Sacramento, Cal, for 17-year-old Lady Bird who has love issues, sex issues, mom issues, when what she wants most is to be out of there, anywhere, especially New York because it's a long way away and packed with artistic promise.
  • Manchester By The Sea (2016)
    Review preview for Manchester By The Sea

    Manchester By The Sea is a masterful study of clumsiness.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A man returns to his hometown following the death of his brother.
  • Mid90s (2018)
    Review preview for Mid90s

    This is astonishing stuff.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The story of a teenager and his life between domestic violence and the newfound recognition from a group of local skaterboarders.
  • Sorry, Baby (2025)
    Review preview for Sorry, Baby

    Writer/director/star Eva Victor has created a poem about the pain and absurdity of entering and continuing adulthood, even when things feel heavy and hopeless.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4.5 out of 5
    Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
    Review preview for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    Fortunately, McDormand never lets Mildred's hold on us slip, balancing the conundrum of a woman who is simultaneously a mum, who likes a beer and a game of pool, and a Rambo-style avenging angel.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A grieving mother takes on a town's police chief after the murder of her daughter goes unsolved.
  • The Zero Theorem (2013)
    Review preview for The Zero Theorem

    The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A reclusive computer genius, plagued with existential angst, works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the meaning of life.

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