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Dog And Wolf - The independent film review magazine for the latest in world cinema and the best of the film festivals

Alexa Dalby

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★★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2016, Black filmmakers, London Film Festival 2016, music, Reviews, USADecember 2, 2016

Chi-Raq (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
A dazzling rap musical against the epidemic of gun violence amongst Chicago’s black communities, Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq is sensational.

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★★★★, Africa, biopic, London Film Festival 2016, romance, UKNovember 25, 2016

A United Kingdom (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Director Amma Asante evokes a powerful interracial love story that threatened the British Empire.

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★★★★, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, USANovember 18, 2016

Paterson (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Jim Jarmusch celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary life in Paterson, starring Adam Driver.

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Indignation
★★★, Sundance, Sundance London 2016, USANovember 17, 2016

Indignation (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Adapting Philip Roth’s novel, producer turned director James Schamus’ Indignation is a stylish but passionless feast of Fifties melancholia.

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★★, Cannes Film Festival 2016, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, thriller, USANovember 17, 2016

DOG EAT DOG (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Flashily shot, ultra-violent and at times absurd. Paul Schrader’s fast-moving failed heist movie stars Nicholas Cage and Willem Dafoe. Dog Eat Dog CAUTION: Here…

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★★★★, animation, Japan, London Film Festival 2016November 17, 2016

Your Name (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

In Makoto Shinkai’s haunting Japanese anime, two teenagers swap bodies and lives.

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★★★★★, biopic, France, Reviews, SilentNovember 11, 2016

Napoleon (1927)

By Alexa Dalby

A silent masterpiece years ahead of its time. Napoleon by French director Abel Gance has been lovingly restored by Kevin Brownlow, with a new score by Carl Davis.

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★★★★, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, sci-fi, USANovember 10, 2016

Arrival (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival is a highly original, thrilling and mind-boggling take on close encounters.

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★★★, documentary, Reviews, UKNovember 9, 2016

Generation Revolution (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Young black political activism and idealism in London is revealed in Generation Revolution, a powerful documentary by first-time directors Usayd Younis and Cassie Quarless.

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Wulu
★★★, Africa, Film Africa 2016, London Film Festival 2016, MaliNovember 6, 2016

Wùlu (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Daouda Coulibaly’s Wùlu is a must-see, tense, contemporary West African thriller.

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★★★★, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, thriller, USANovember 4, 2016

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Nocturnal Animals, Tom Ford’s mesmerising second feature after the acclaimed A Single Man is a visually stunning and disturbingly gripping examination of the connection…

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★★★, comedy, Reviews, UKOctober 28, 2016

The Comedian’s Guide to Survival (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

James Mullinger’s and Mark Murphy’s The Comedian’s Guide to Survival takes the hard-won life lessons of a struggling would-be stand-up and plays them for…

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★★★★★, animation, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, UKOctober 26, 2016

Ethel and Ernest (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

A beautiful, very moving animation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, voiced by Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn. It’s a tribute to…

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★★★, features, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, UKOctober 22, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: SPACESHIP (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Spaceship is a dreamlike, semi-psychedlic, free-flowing story of teenage cyber goths and alien abductions. Spaceship CAUTION: Here be spoilers A spaceship is what gets…

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