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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 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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Me You Madness - There are some films that are so bad they're almost good, some that are enjoyably bad and some that are so bad as to be just plain awful. Regrettably, actress Linton's...

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