RUN (2019) – ON DVD AND DOWNLOAD FROM 25 MAY 2020
★★★☆☆
Scottish nouveau dreich, downbeat Run, expanded from a short by director Scott Graham, still has a way to go.
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Villain (2020)
★★★☆☆
Villain, director Philip Barantini’s feature debut, is an ironically titled, violent slice of old and new crime in the East End, with a dominating performance by Craig Fairbrass.
Dark Waters (2019)
★★★★☆
Dark Waters, caringly directed by Todd Haynes and starring Mark Ruffalo, is the true story of one brave man’s exposure of the cover-up of a far-reaching environmental catastrophe.
The True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
★★★★☆
In The True History of the Kelly Gang Justin Kurzel memorably reimagines the Australian legend in the searing, burning landscapes of Peter Carey’s award-winning novel.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) – ON DEMAND
★★★★☆
Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a sumptuously sensual lesbian love story set in 1770 that comments fiercely on the role of women in society – then and now.
End of the Century (2019)
★★★★☆
Writer/director Lucio Castro’s intimate drama End of the Century sees two men meet and form a passionate connection before realising that they had met similarly twenty years earlier.
Greed (2019)
★★★★☆
Nothing exceeds like excess in Michael Winterbottom’s broad satire Greed, starring Steve Coogan as a super-rich high-street-fashion mogul.
Steve McQueen Exhibition (2020)
★★★★★
Director Steve McQueen’s stunning new exhibition of photographs and video installations at the Tate Modern makes you open your eyes and really, really look.
First Love (Hatsukoi) (2019)
★★★★☆
Deceptively titled First Love is Takeshi Miike’s irresistibly anarchic yakuza noir, stuffed with gratuitous violence, comedy, romance and severed heads.
Emma. (2020)
★★★★☆
Beautiful to look at, clever and funny – that’s Jane Austen’s heroine Emma and also Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation of it – Emma. .
Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
Boon Joon-Ho‘s Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece Parasite is an unforgettable, genre-bending black comedy about social status, class and inequality, aspiration and materialism.
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The Lighthouse (2019)
Queen & Slim (2019)
★★★★☆
Queen & Slim is a first film fuelled by controlled anger by black female director Melina Matsoukas. It’s always gripping.
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
The Personal History of David Copperfield is Armando Iannucci’s quirkily imaginative transformation of Dickens’ novel bringing out its contemporary resonances.
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