Babygirl (2024)
76%
5/5
“Audacious, sexy and deliciously smart, Babygirl is one of the most welcome entries into the erotic thriller canon in years.” –
The Skinny
Jan 6, 2025
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2073 (2024)
48%
“Certainly, the film is uncompromisingly, unrelentingly furious, as it remorselessly holds to light the countless dystopias we currently live under and tolerate.” –
Little White Lies
Sep 5, 2024
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Kill the Jockey (2024)
96%
“Silly, shambolic, and sincere, Kill the Jockey feels like the cinematic equivalent of throwing spaghetti at the wall: not all of it sticks, and some of it is overdone, but there is something charming about the wilfulness of doing it at all.” –
Little White Lies
Aug 30, 2024
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Origin (2023)
81%
“A hugely ambitious political and narrative feat, illuminating millennia of oppressive systems through the lens of one woman writing against a personal backdrop of loss and grief.” –
Little White Lies
Sep 6, 2023
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Bones and All (2022)
82%
4/5
“A film so entirely monstrous, and so entirely flush with love.” –
The Skinny
Sep 20, 2022
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Athena (2022)
86%
4/5
“Athena considers how the revolution might not only be televised, but rendered electric and sublime.” –
The Skinny
Sep 20, 2022
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Beyond the Wall (2022)
50%
“Beyond the Wall is a film that rewards patience, drawing its deliberately oblique, stray threads together into an eviscerating conclusion that foregrounds solidarity as the sole beacon of hope in an oppressive world.” –
Little White Lies
Sep 8, 2022
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The Matchmaker (2022)
“This documentary does very little to uncover the real machinations of power at play. Instead, it merely gawks, and prods, and indicts.” –
Little White Lies
Sep 8, 2022
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Happening (2021)
99%
5/5
“The boxy aspect ratio is near-suffocating as [Diwan] soberly charts the imposed risk of female desire, the impossibility of lust when so much punishment might ensue.” –
The Skinny
Mar 17, 2022
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Both Sides of the Blade (2021)
84%
3/5
“Set in the aftermath of COVID-19, Fire is most interesting when in direct conversation with its contemporary context of social upheaval.” –
The Skinny
Mar 17, 2022
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Licorice Pizza (2021)
90%
5/5
“It's all so wonderfully fresh and zingy, shot with a spontaneity that is both naturalistic and deliciously offbeat.” –
One Room With A View
Jan 6, 2022
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Ear for Eye (2021)
100%
4/5
“Within ear for eye's uncompromising portrait of a broken society lies a deeply emotional core, which well understands how the political will always be personal and raw.” –
The Skinny
Dec 9, 2021
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Benediction (2021)
92%
5/5
“Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi play Siegfried Sassoon at different ages in Terrence Davies' elegant, haunting biopic of the war poet.” –
The Skinny
Nov 8, 2021
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7 Days (2021)
86%
2/5
“Some of the jokes really land, but unfortunately 7 Days breaks the golden rom-com rule: that the audience should really want the leads to get together.” –
One Room With A View
Oct 19, 2021
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Great Freedom (2021)
97%
3/5
“Meise's determination to show history in all its stained reality has real power, a tense, moving portrait of masculinity struggling against the bounds of violence and punishment in which it is placed.” –
One Room With A View
Oct 11, 2021
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The Last Duel (2021)
85%
1/5
“It makes a sick kind of sense that corporate Hollywood turned women's overwhelming rage into something so reassuring, and so trite.” –
One Room With A View
Sep 13, 2021
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Land of Dreams (2021)
63%
4/5
“Stubbornly opaque and infinitely rewarding, Land of Dreams is a case study in how the most surreal imaginaries can very often be the most disturbingly real.” –
One Room With A View
Sep 13, 2021
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Dune (2021)
83%
4/5
“Balanced by a largely stellar cast and sumptuous visual storytelling, Dune breathes life into Herbert's plentiful world.” –
One Room With A View
Sep 7, 2021
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Parallel Mothers (2021)
96%
5/5
“A chaotic whirl of vivid colour and misunderstanding fit for the horniest and queerest of Shakespeare plays.” –
The Skinny
Sep 5, 2021
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The Lost Daughter (2021)
94%
5/5
“Gyllenhaal's eye is extraordinarily perceptive, the camera almost indecently intimate in its attention to the heady sensuality of frustrated desire.” –
The Skinny
Sep 5, 2021
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The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
88%
5/5
“Rarely has the West's wilful exploitation of the Middle East been so audaciously represented, or so deliciously mocked.” –
The Skinny
Aug 30, 2021
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Ballad of a White Cow (2021)
89%
4/5
“A granular social drama that grapples with the inherent contradiction of brutality and grace that characterises everyday life under the Iranian regime.” –
The Skinny
Aug 25, 2021
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Dreams on Fire (2021)
100%
3/5
“Where Dreams on Fire thrives is in its unapologetic examination of trying to make it in a precarious industry, of the reality of pursuing creative ambition in an unaccommodating world.” –
The Skinny
Aug 22, 2021
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Wendy (2020)
42%
3/5
“This is ambitious, wild filmmaking that pushes with childlike recklessness against the rigid bounds of literary adaptation: it doesn't always succeed, but when it does, everything feels -- just for a moment -- extraordinary.” –
One Room With A View
Aug 17, 2021
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Black Widow (2021)
79%
4/5
“Natasha has long been one of the Avengers' most interesting members -- a human amongst superheroes, a woman amongst a horde of ego-driven men -- and this film gives her, if not her due, then space to breathe.” –
One Room With A View
Jul 12, 2021
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