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  • Atonement (2007)
    Review preview for Atonement

    You'll be lucky to see another film this year as absorbing and evocative as Atonement.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A young couple are torn apart by a confused girl's accusation, by class prejudice and by war.
  • Me And The Cult Leader (2020)
    Review preview for Me And The Cult Leader

    There are huge struggles going on here, with far reaching relevance, yet everything is conducted in a very quiet, polite, downbeat way.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway system, travels with Hiroshi Araki, an executive of Aleph (formerly Aum Shinrikyo), the attack's perpetrators, visiting their respective hometowns and the university they both attended.

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