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THE INTERNET'S MOST HONEST FILM REVIEWS. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.


L'Atalante (1934)
Jean Vigo’s one and only feature length film is nearly ninety years old, and I doubt there’s anyone questioning its importance today.
Sep 16, 20231 min read


The General (1926)
A firm fixture in many best of all time film lists, this Buster Keaton silent film is an astonishing piece of physical film.
Sep 16, 20231 min read


Beau Travail (1999)
Claire Denis' fascinating adaptation of Herman Melville's 1988 novel Billy Budd is really something.
Sep 10, 20231 min read


Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Sergei Eisenstein’s astonishing early Soviet silent film is just as powerful today as it must have been almost a century ago.
Sep 10, 20231 min read


The Last Detail (1973)
Jack Nicholson and Otis Young star as career sailors escorting a young recruit from their Virginia base to Portsmouth Navel Base.
Sep 10, 20232 min read


Nostalgia (2023)
Returning to his home town of Naples after forty years living in Egypt, Felice must face the Camorra, and his past.
Sep 10, 20232 min read


The Quiet Girl (2022)
Nine year old Cáit is sent to live at a distant cousins house for the summer in rural Waterford, Ireland.
Sep 10, 20231 min read


Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2023)
Marcel is a shell who lives in an air bnb house with his Nan, and embarks on a quest to find his missing family.
Sep 10, 20232 min read


Victoria (2015)
Schipper’s film is genuinely one take, filmed over a two and half hour period one morning in Berlin, and is sensational.
Sep 3, 20231 min read


Changeling (2008)
Based on true events, Angelina Jolie stars as Christine Collins, whose son Walter disappears while she is out one day.
Sep 3, 20231 min read


EO (2023)
The titular character is a donkey that we follow over a period of time as he passes from owner to owner, some nice, some absolutely not.
Sep 3, 20231 min read


I, Tonya (2017)
Craig Gillespie’s partial biopic of American figure skater Tonya Harding is impressive, tragic, and at times highly amusing.
Sep 3, 20231 min read


The Plains (2023)
Can a three-hour art-house piece set almost entirely in a car be any good? Yes, emphatically.
Sep 2, 20232 min read


Pacifiction (2023)
Albert Serra's latest film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, and we've had to wait almost a year to get it here.
Sep 2, 20232 min read


Babylon (2023)
Babylon is Damian Chazelle's most ambitious work to date, spanning decades of depravity in Hollywood.
Sep 2, 20233 min read


Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
The IMF have to track down two parts of a connecting key that is also being hunted by an AI 'entity' in the franchise's seventh outing.
Sep 2, 20232 min read


Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
This gorgeous feature follows 13-year-old Kiki as she moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year in training....
Sep 2, 20231 min read


Sonatine (1993)
Beat Takeshi's fourth feature may well be his masterpiece, mainly focusing on the events in between the violence of a group of yakuza.
Sep 2, 20231 min read


Oppenheimer (2023)
Nolan's latest is a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the vein of Pablo Larrain's Jackie (2016) or Oliver Hirschbie's Downfall (2004)...
Aug 15, 20233 min read
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