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Operation Mincemeat | Review

Get Them to the Greek: Madden Traipses Lightly Through Factual WWII Espionage Despite it’s presentation as a frothy pseudo-comedy, the events transpiring in John...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat

An acquisitions friendly title from across the pound with all the production value trimmings that we feel would have normally splashed in the Premieres...

Eternal Beauty | Review

Unhappy-Go-Lucky: Hawkes Shines in Roberts’ Mental Illness Drama The depiction of mental illness, particularly something like schizophrenia, a real condition often posed as a catch-all...

Summerland | Review

Castles in the Sky: Swale Finds Love During Wartime in Likeable Debut Although it’s a somewhat simple and ultimately schmaltzy dose of narrative convenience, Jessica...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #150. Operation Mincemeat – John Madden

Operation Mincemeat Moving into his fourth decade of filmmaking, British director John Madden returns with a major pull the rug WWII drama in Operation Mincemeat....

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #24. Craig Roberts – Eternal Beauty

Not really the dark horse pick selection that was his feature debut, actor Craig Roberts has been to the fest beforehand (Richard Ayoade’s Submarine...

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No Disappearing Act Here: Kino Lorber Locates Manuela Martelli’s ‘The Meltdown’

Following its Un Certain Regard premiere at Cannes, Manuela...

Two Prosecutors | Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2026 Eurimages: Kira Kovalenko, Monia Chokri & Camille Vidal-Naquet Land Coin

Some Cannes Film Festival alumni in Kira Kovalenko, Monia...