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Review - Sing Sing
Colman Domingo summons deep wells of pain and pride as a maximum security inmate in this deeply authentic prison drama.
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Review: Stylish Nosferatu lacks bite
12 Jan 2025Dan Slevin finds Robert Eggers' remake of Nosferatu a little bloodless. Video
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Review: The President's Wife
31 Jul 2024The President's Wife sees the unstoppable Catherine Deneuve (Belle de Jour) portray another force of nature - Bernadette Chirac, wife of President Jacques Chirac, who became more popular than her…
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These are the films to watch out for, says film fest boss
3 Jul 2024Simon Morris talks to the new director of Whānau Mārama, the New Zealand International Film Festival. Paolo Bertolin plucks some highlights from. this year's programme, including Cannes sensation The…
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At The Movies - The Watchers
19 Jun 2024The Watchers is the directorial debut of Ishana Shyamalan, produced by her rather more famous father M Night Shyamalan. In it, a young woman (Dakota Fanning) finds herself trapped in the Irish woods…
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At The Movies - The Promised Land
19 Jun 2024The Promised Land is a historical drama set in Denmark in the early 18th century. A retired army captain (Mads Mikkelson) plans to turn a barren heath into successful farmland but makes a powerful…
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Review: Mothers' Instinct
19 Jun 2024Mothers' Instinct is a Hitchcock-style suspense thriller produced by its stars Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. (Now streaming on Prime Video)
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At the Movies: Hit Man
12 Jun 2024Hit Man, from arthouse darling Richard Linklater, tells the true-ish story of a "fake hitman" working for the New Orleans Police Department.
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At the Movies - Bad Boys: Ride or Die
12 Jun 2024Bad Boys: Ride or Die is the fourth in the buddy-cop franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Does it have the same magic 30 years after the first episode?
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At the Movies: Under Paris
12 Jun 2024Under Paris is part shark-thriller, part French cop movie and part Greenie parable - which is why it's getting enthusiastic thumbs-up from unexpected quarters.
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Review: Furiosa
29 May 2024Furiosa follows the 15 year backstory of the co-star of Mad Max Fury Road. Anya Taylor-Joy plays the girl kidnapped from her idyllic home, and out for vengeance. Once again directed by George Miller…
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Review: Freud's Last Session
29 May 2024Freud's Last Session is a play about a fictitious meeting between the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and the Christian writer, and later creator of the Narnia books, C S Lewis. Starring Sir…
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Movie review: The Strangers - Chapter 1
22 May 2024The Strangers: Chapter 1 is the first part of an extended remake of a 2008 Liv Tyler horror film, directed by the notorious Renny Harlin.
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Movie review - The Way, My Way
22 May 2024The Way, My Way is the film of director Bill Bennett's book about how he walked the 800-kilometre pilgrims' walk - the Camino de Santiago.
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Review: IF
22 May 2024IF is about a girl who discovers a world of Imaginary Friends of children who've outgrown them. Can she find them new homes, and can they get her through some personal traumas? Starring Ryan Reynolds…
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Review: Jackie Stewart
15 May 2024Jackie Stewart tells the story of one of the most popular drivers on the Formula 1 scene. Sir Jackie tells his story from his childhood in Scotland to his superstar status that continues to this day…
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Review: The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
15 May 2024The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes sees the return of the popular series, many years after the last episode. Starring Owen Teague (It) and Freya Allen (Baghead) but the real stars are the amazing…
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Movie review: The Idea of You
8 May 2024The Idea of You imagines what would happen if a 40-year-old gallery owner (Anne Hathaway) fell in love with a 24-year-old singer in a boy band.
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Movie review: The Moon is Upside Down
8 May 2024The Moon Is Upside Down is a New Zealand film following three stories of love gone wrong - a mail-order bride, a long-distance Skype affair and a woman wrestling with death.
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Movie review: Back to Black
8 May 2024This new biopic of British singer Amy Winehouse is everything you were expecting and less, says Simon Morris.
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At The Movies - Before Dawn
1 May 2024Before Dawn is an ambitious, low-budget World War I film made in Western Australia.
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Review: The Fall Guy
1 May 2024The Fall Guy is a reboot of an old TV series about stunt men which benefits from three suddenly very hot stars - Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Hannah Waddingham (TV's Ted Lasso) and particularly Ryan…
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At The Movies - Golda
1 May 2024Dame Helen Mirren stars as 1970s Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in Golda.
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Review: Challengers
24 Apr 2024Challengers sees top star Zendaya (Dune) playing a top tennis star, torn between two competing suitors, Mike Faist (West Side Story) and Josh O'Connor (The Crown). Directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me…
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Review: Civil War
17 Apr 2024Civil War imagines a future America torn apart by another civil war, and the people who have to cover the story. Written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina), it stars Kirsten Dunst (Power of the…
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At the Movies - Late Night With The Devil
17 Apr 2024In Late Night with The Devil, a 1970s TV host goes for the ultimate shock interview at Halloween. "Absolutely brilliant," says Stephen King. Is he right?
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