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Monster - Rescued by Netflix after nearly four years on the shelf marked Forgotten Films, this is a sometimes absorbing drama of the theme of a defendant accused of a crime he did...

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Bound (reissue) - Available at last on Amazon Prime video, this is a terrific dark thriller with echoes of the early work of the Coen Brothers - strange, as this, too, is made by a...

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Nomadland - Empire, Nevada, during the Depression of 2011. When the town's gypsum plant closes down, recently widowed Fern (McDormand), shorn of any reason to stay in what is...

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Virtuoso, The - This hitman movie gets off to a sharpish start with an assassin (Mount) disposing of the male half of a copulating couple, though this is an early indication of the...

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Artist's Wife, The - This is quite a touching examination of the latter stages of a successful marriage. Cantankerous old abstract artist Richard (Dern), now in his eighties and steadily...

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Black Bear - This is the kind of film that highbrow critics find interesting, while the lower-brow public stays away in droves. 'Are you following this?' asks Gadon early in the...

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Promising Young Woman - Strange that two films centred on serial-killer women taking revenge on men should come out at the same time. This one, of course, is vastly superior to Me You...

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Go With Me - A belated digital release (presumably on the strength of Hopkins' Oscar-winning turn in The Father) for this underrated thriller, atmospherically set in the...

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