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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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Power of the Dog, The - Though set on a Montana cattle ranch in 1925, this extremely slow film is not really a western, more a drama of psychosexual tension. Phil (Cumberbatch) and George...

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King Richard - Tennis films tend not to do very well at the box office, and despite the richness of Smith's performance, this is probably not going to break the mould. The star plays...

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Director Reitman has produced, on the whole, a worthy successor to his father Ivan Reitman's original. This one's a slow starter, but sparks (and spirits) soon fly when...

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You Will Die at Twenty - This award-winning, exquisitely shot Sudanese film is also something of a one-trick pony. For we spend the entire movie wondering whether our teenage hero will succumb...

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Colour Room, The - A pleasant, watchable biography of the early life pf the famous potter and ceramicist Clarice Cliff, who broke a glass ceiling to succeed in a world totally dominated by...

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