Gere’s loveable creep
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Written and directed by Joseph Cedar
118 minutes, rated M
4 stars
Casting Richard Gere as a supremely …
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Depravity down-under
Hounds of Love
Written and directed by Ben Young
Rated MA 15+, 104 minutes
4 stars
Violent crime in Australian cinema, when it’s really nasty, is usually pegged to a …
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Bring back Ripley!
Alien: Covenant
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by John Logan and Dante Harper, based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett
122 minutes, rated MA 15+
3.5 stars
Teresa Palmer’s star turn
Berlin Syndrome
Directed by Cate Shortland
Written by Shaun Grant, based on a novel by Melanie Joosten
116 minutes, rated MA 15+
3.5 stars
Berlin Syndrome is a modern horror …
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The attraction of sin
Rules Don’t Apply
Directed by Warren Beatty
Written by Warren Beatty and Bo Goldman
Rated M, 127 minutes
4 stars
Warren Beatty begins this pageant of Hollywood life in the …
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Bad people doing bad things
Detour
Written and directed by Christopher Smith
97 minutes, rated MA 15+
3 stars
There’s no such thing as originality, but that doesn’t mean you stop aiming for it. Detour …
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An elegy for Emily D.
A Quiet Passion
Written and directed by Terence Davies
125 minutes, rated PG
4 stars
When one artist makes a film about another artist, you can be reasonably sure that …
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Kartoonish Korean ultra-violence
The Villainess
Directed by Jung Byung-gil
Written by Jung Byeong-sik and Jung Byung-gil
122 minutes, rated R
3.5 stars
The Villainess is a high-octane Korean thriller about a young woman …
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Fascinating half-true story
Monsieur Chocolat
Directed by Roschdy Zem
Written by Cyril Gely, Olivier Gorce, Gerard Noiriel and Roschdy Zem
114 minutes, rated M
4 stars
This is the fascinating true story of …
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Black and white and red
Get Out
Written and directed by Jordan Peele
104 minutes, rated MA 15+
4 stars
A guide to African–American horror films would be a slim volume. There are black people …
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Fine and brave
Don’t Tell
Directed by Tori Garrett
Written by Anne Brooksbank, Ursula Cleary, James Greville, based on a book by Stephen Roche
108 minutes, rated M
4 stars
Child abuse. …
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Gurinder’s personal Partition
Viceroy’s House
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Written by Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini and Gurinder Chadha
106 minutes, rated PG
3 stars
Where to begin with this fascinating, infuriating, entertaining …
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Pablo Neruda as fantasy
Neruda
Directed by Pablo Larrain
Written by Guillermo Calderon
Rated MA 15+, 108 minutes
4 stars
A chubby man with a comb-over (Luis Gnecco) sits bare-chested in front of a …
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