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Boxing Day - Director Ameen, using some of the elements from his own life, has set out to make a Love Actually/The Holiday-style film for the black London community, and in...

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Hand of God, The - An often lurid, semi-autobiographical depiction of the director's teenage years, set in the Naples of the 1980s, when the local football club had just signed the...

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Summit of the Gods, The - I should confess right away that mountain-climbing dramas are just about my least favourite kind of film. This animation from France, based on a Manga classic, does...

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Encanto - This noisy, tuneful Disney show brings new meaning to the word colourful, moves at the pace of some vivid, toe-tapping Colombian dance, and has an enchanting heroine...

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Vivo - Just now, that man Lin-Manuel Miranda is everywhere. With the film of his stage smash Hamilton in demand, his directorial debut with Tick,...

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Harder They Fall, The - This is a throwback in some ways to the blaxploitation movies of the 1970s, but director Samuel has obviously seen, and loved, Sergio Leone's Italian westerns with Clint...

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Pirates - Short and sweet (with a review to match!), this breezy comedy centres on three London youths (Edusah, Elazouar, Peters) hoping to celebrate Year 2K by getting a rapping...

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Passing - This is a sad little story filmed in black and white and nicely set in New York in 1926. Daring to enter a swish whites-only hotel, mixed-race Reenie (Thompson) runs...

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