Rating: 4.0★
To mark the centenary of cinema, Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf placed a simple newspaper advertisement in Tehran in 1994, calling for anyone who wanted to appear in his next film to show up at a given time and place. He expected perhaps a few dozen people. Roughly three thousand turned
Rating: 4.0★
There is a particular strain of American indie filmmaking that strips everything back, no genre scaffolding, no high-concept hook, just a character wandering through their own life and hoping you find it as interesting as they do. Done badly, it produces films that feel like homework. Done well, it
Rating: 4.0★
The First World War has occupied British cinema for over a century, from the silent era newsreels shot a few miles behind the actual front line to the mud-soaked poetry of films like Paths of Glory and Oh! What a Lovely War. It is a conflict that refuses to
Genre Drama
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Genre Comedy
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Genre Drama
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Genre Drama
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Genre Crime
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Genre Adventure
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Genre Animation
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Genre Crime
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Genre Drama
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