A Separation (2011) Director: Asghar Farhadi Screenwriter: Asghar Farhadi Starring: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi When reflecting upon this decade in film, one thing becomes very apparent: it has been a stellar ten years for International cinema. Just this year, South Korea’s Parasite demonstrated a masterclass in storytelling, […]
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A Hidden Life (2019) Director: Terrence Malick Screenwriter: Terrence Malick Starring: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz Terrence Malick, the divisive Palme d’Or winning filmmaker known for his nearly 50 years of deeply philosophical poetic undertakings and other-worldly visual journeys, returns to the more formal form of film narrative
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Ema (2019) Director: Pablo Larraín Screenwriters: Guillermo Calderón, Alejandro Moreno Starring: Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Santiago Cabrera, Paola Giannini, Cristián Suárez, Mariana Loyola One of the most alive, bustling and energetic movies of 2019, Pablo Larraín’s intense and morally atypical character study combines the trademark features of some of Europe’s most provocative filmmakers
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) Director: Tim Miller Screenwriters: James Cameron (Story), David S Goyer, Justin Rhodes, Billy Ray Starring: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna It has been rough being a Terminator fan since T2. Every instalment following the first sequel has missed the mark in usually more than one way,
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Parasite (2019) Director: Bong Joon-ho Screenwriter: Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won Starring: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam In The Guardian’s live Cannes coverage, Gwilym Mumford wondered “whether [Parasite]’s genre elements might hold it back” in the competition for the Palme d’Or. It went on to win the award unanimously, as 2019 judge Alejandro
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Jojo Rabbit (2019) Director: Taika Waititi Screenwriter: Taika Waititi Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomas McKenzie, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, Archie Yates Satire has always been one of cinema’s more daring genres, from Stanley Kubrick’s sharp and bizarre 1964 film Dr. Strangelove to the modern works of Armando
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Doctor Sleep (2019) Director: Mike Flanagan Screenwriter: Mike Flanagan Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind Stephen King famously disliked how Stanley Kubrick chose to adapt “The Shining”. Director Mike Flanagan famously loves Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick. Thirty-nine years later, with his film adaptation of King’s “Shining”
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This review was written by Holly Weaver and originally published at Screen Queens. The Aeronauts (2019) Director: Tom Harper Screenwriter: Jack Thorne Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Himesh Patel Tom Harper’s biographical adventure film The Aeronauts puts fiction before fact from the moment the words ‘inspired by true events’ flash onto the screen. It is not a
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Countdown (2019) Director: Justin Dec Screenwriter: Justin Dec Starring: Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Bateman, Tichina Arnold How often do you go to a movie and come out with a hot take? It’s pretty easy when it’s the center of controversy like Joker, or clearly in poor taste and objectively poor like Slender Man. Seeing Countdown
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Waves (2019) Director: Trey Edward Shults Screenwriter: Trey Edward Shults Starring: Taylor Russell, Sterling K. Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Alexa Demie, Lucas Hedges, Bill Wise, David Garelik, Justin R. Chan A24 is having a year. Between The Farewell, Midsommar, The Lighthouse and the forthcoming Uncut Gems, the New York-based film company has established itself as not
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