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  • Heart, Beating In The Dark (2005)
    Review preview for Heart, Beating In The Dark

    The combination of unappealing personalities and lack of hooks to get to know the characters’ motivations better means that most of the time, watching Heart, Beating in the Dark is quite an alienating experience.

    Emma Slawinski · 3 out of 5
    A young couple meet their older selves running from their dark pasts.
  • Maborosi (1995)
    Review preview for Maborosi

    Generally, this film engages more intellectually with emotion than Kore-eda's later more heartfelt work.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A young mother struggles to come to terms with grief.
  • Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983)
    Review preview for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

    Bowie and Sakamoto acquit themselves well, their otherworldly appearance and rougher edges in acting ability feel quite appropriate for the characters they are playing - outsiders.

    Owen Van Spall · 3.5 out of 5
    Study of brutality in a Japanese PoW camp
  • Spirited Away (2001)
    Review preview for Spirited Away

    The power of invention is strong and the visual imagery matches the plot's unique vision, defining all logic of storytelling.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Animated Japanese adventure of a 10-year-old girl in a magic world of ghosts and unquiet gods.

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