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Old - A preposterous concept for a chiller - and given little chance of success when laced with the director's own hysterical dialogue, in which characters say such things as...

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Deerskin - A grouchy absurdist comedy-drama about a newly divorced man, Georges (The Artist's Dujardin), obsessed with a deerskin jacket, that almost runs like a home...

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Black Medicine - A cracking Northern Irish suspense thriller that provides edge-of-seat moments almost non-stop, but especially in a nerve-crunching operation sequence at he end. It...

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Martin Eden - Film-makers from several nations have been having a go at Jack London's story of seagoing hardship - portrayed in an autobiography by an illiterate seaman who, against...

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Ellie and Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) - A lesbian rom-dramedy from Australia. I was going to say romcom, but, although the film starts out like a goofy comedy, it soon develops into mainly serious stuff. ...

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Another Round - Another uncompromising depiction (albeit with a few lighter touches) of the ravages of alcohol, focusing on four male Danish teachers in early middle age who have become...

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French Exit - An eccentric film about an eccentric widow, Frances (played by Pfeiffer with a scarlet gash of lipstick), once a famous socialite who, with the death of her (hated)...

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Fast & Furious 9 - After Another Round with a drunken Mads Mikkelson, here's another round with Vin Diesel & Co, who are only drunk on high-speed action. Like Hitman's...

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