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  • As I Lay Dying (2013)
    Review preview for As I Lay Dying

    As I Lay Dying looks and sounds great, and offers many individual moments of heightened intensity.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    The death of a family matriarch and her loved ones' efforts to have her buried according to her wishes.
  • The Disaster Artist (2017)
    Review preview for The Disaster Artist

    Rather than simply turn Tommy into a laughing stock, Franco teases out the tragicomedy of the man.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of the making of the 'Citizen Kane of bad movies', The Room.
  • Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)
    Review preview for Interior. Leather Bar.

    This is a curious film, an important film and, in its oblique way, a very funny film.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    An attempt to recreate 40 minutes of gay bdsm-focused footage cut from William Friedkin's 1980 crime thriller Cruising.
  • Pretenders (2018)
    Review preview for Pretenders

    The film's principal weakness is that it's so busy being clever at being something else that it forgets to be itself.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.

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