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There is a particular pleasure in stumbling on a film almost nobody has seen yet and finding it is the real thing. Carlo Milillo's Bundle has barely registered anywhere so far, and that feels like an oversight, because this is a genuinely accomplished short: an aggressive, symbolic and
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There is a very particular kind of spiral that anyone who has ever made an impulsive decision in front of a mirror will recognise instantly, and Micro Bangs nails it in just five sharp minutes. Iris Breward's short is a neat, funny and surprisingly truthful little piece about
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Some of the most affecting films work on you like a held breath, and Listen is one of those. Taliesin Black-Brown's short documentary is a quiet, aching and genuinely beautiful piece about memory, love and the sounds that tether us to who we are, and in barely
Rating: 4.0★
By the autumn of 2000, M. Night Shyamalan was operating under a pressure that very few filmmakers ever have to manage: the weight of a genuine phenomenon. The Sixth Sense (1999) had been one of the biggest surprise hits of the decade, a film that rewrote the rules of the
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I will be honest that I came to Masc with more than a critic's interest. My own son is autistic, and a film that genuinely inhabits the perspective of an autistic man, rather than observing him from the outside, is a rare and precious thing. Bertil Nilsson'
Rating: 4.0★
Nomadland arrived in late 2020 carrying the particular weight that certain films do when they feel tuned to the precise frequency of their moment. Released during a period when questions about economic precarity, community and what it means to belong somewhere had a fresh, uncomfortable urgency, Chloé Zhao's
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If you have ever wished a film would drop you headfirst into the chaos and simply not let up, Bad Day at the Office is built for you. Chee Keong Cheung's first-person action thriller is a lean, frantic, adrenalised ride that wears its influences loudly, and while
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HyperNormalisation (2016) at ten: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
Rating: 3.0★
Jordan Peele's debut feature arrived in early 2017 with the kind of cultural momentum that very few horror films ever generate. Made for a reported budget of around 4.5 million dollars under the Blumhouse Productions model (low cost, creatively unencumbered, share in the upside if it lands)
Rating: 3.5★
By 1964, Italian genre cinema was operating in a world of its own, producing work that bore little resemblance to what Hollywood or the British studios were turning out. Blood and Black Lace sits at the centre of that moment, a film that helped crystallise the giallo as a recognisable
Rating: 3.0★
Licorice Pizza arrives with the kind of creative pedigree that tends to generate genuine anticipation rather than mere industry buzz. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, it is a loose, sun-drenched coming-of-age story set in the San Fernando Valley during 1973, a film built less around
Rating: 4.0★
New Zealand cinema has always punched well above its weight, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) is one of the cleaner examples of why. Adapted by writer-director Taika Waititi from Barry Crump's 1986 novel Wild Pork and Watercress, the film is a collaboration between the small New
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