Manchester by the Sea (2016)
★★★★☆
Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea is well-crafted, superbly acted film for grown-ups.
★★★★☆
Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea is well-crafted, superbly acted film for grown-ups.
★★★☆☆
A portrait of the artist as a pregnant teen, Micah Magee’s Petting Zoo is a sensitive study of a girl growing up and finding her way in Texas.
★★★★☆
JA Bayona’s magical fantasy A Monster Calls tugs at adult heartstrings.
★★★★☆
Billy O’Brien’s teen horror I Am Not a Serial Killer uncovers the dark, elderly underbelly of American suburbia.
★★★★☆
The Birth of a Nation is director Nate Parker’s emotional condemnation of America’s brutal history of slavery through the true story of one man who led a rebellion.
★★★★☆
A dazzling rap musical against the epidemic of gun violence amongst Chicago’s black communities, Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq is sensational.
★★★★☆
Jim Jarmusch celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary life in Paterson, starring Adam Driver.
★★★☆☆
Adapting Philip Roth’s novel, producer turned director James Schamus’ Indignation is a stylish but passionless feast of Fifties melancholia.
Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival is a highly original, thrilling and mind-boggling take on close encounters.
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