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Helen Hawkins

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The Extraordinary Miss Flower (2025) 2/5 “Geraldine’s most interesting facets...are left underexplored...There’s a big difference between people telling you something is amazing and experiencing that amazement for yourself. The film can’t bridge that gap, sadly.” – The Arts Desk May 2, 2025 Full Review April (2024) 95% 4/5 “This is a remarkable film, rich in its spareness, reminiscent at times of Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin though creating a cinematic language all of its own.” – The Arts Desk Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Mr. Burton (2025) 83% 3/5 “Although Mr Burton's style is conventional, it is so engagingly performed that its oversights seem less important than its achievements. ” – The Arts Desk Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Santosh (2024) 100% 4/5 “Goswami is superb, but it’s a film full of minutely nuanced performances with a compellingly sombre message. ” – The Arts Desk Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% 4/5 “Zellweger is now so embedded in Bridget’s character that it seems wrong to question her performance, but she could dial down some of her facial twitches and not walk around like a blissed out teen quite so much.” – The Arts Desk Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Saturday Night (2024) 78% 4/5 “To capture the anarchic birth of this 온라인카지노추천 institution, Jason Reitman has made a stylish film that initially seems as wayward as the show. But it gradually comes to seem like the obvious way to handle the material.” – The Arts Desk Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Vermiglio (2024) 93% 4/5 “The film leaves you sensing you are watching people with a profound attachment to their world, but it does this without a shred of sentimentality or editorialising emotionalism. The simplicity of its storytelling is a treat to watch.” – The Arts Desk Jan 17, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% 3/5 “This isn’t an Eighties erotic thriller featuring boiled bunnies or even Saltburn-style grand guignol. It’s more like a chess game with inventive orgasms. ” – The Arts Desk Jan 10, 2025 Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% 4/5 “This extraordinary film is as stirring in its way as I Am Not a Witch, while more earthbound in content and tone. It’s billed as a comedy, but it also delivers a blistering critique of social ties that have become gags and blindfolds. ” – The Arts Desk Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) 93% 4/5 “This is an intriguing watch, and often a strikingly beautiful one: the artwork of the backdrops is a triumph.” – The Arts Desk Dec 6, 2024 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% 5/5 “It’s neither sentimental nor strident and goes about digging into its material with the same resolve with which the women tackle their problems.” – The Arts Desk Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 71% 4/5 “A Mexican drugs cartel boss. A transitioning man. A strikingly beautiful woman lawyer risking all against corruption. Bittersweet songs that the characters suddenly break into, and occasionally dance to. A film in praise of women. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 28, 2024 Full Review The Crime Is Mine (2023) 98% 3/5 “[François Ozon]’s both recycling this kind of project’s superficial kerb appeal while feeding off its wrong-headedness. Whatever: it’s entertaining fodder on a drab day.” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2024 Full Review The Outrun (2024) 82% 5/5 “Ultimately an upbeat film, inventively realised, perfectly pitched: the exultation on Rona’s face as she senses her recovery is within her reach is hard-earned and deeply felt. And Ronan has found the best role to date to match her astonishing skills. ” – The Arts Desk Sep 27, 2024 Full Review About Dry Grasses (2023) 92% 4/5 “The epic length of the film for what’s essentially a chamber piece isn't a problem because the twists and turns of Samet’s personality are compelling. ” – The Arts Desk Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Janet Planet (2023) 85% 4/5 “Baker’s move to film is impressive. She has sidestepped a key pitfall for stage directors of using too much dialogue and thinking all the mise-en-scène has to be arty and inventive.” – The Arts Desk Jul 22, 2024 Full Review Àma Gloria (2023) 100% 4/5 “In Marie Amachoukeli’s Àma Gloria there’s a remarkable performance by a child actor, Louise Mauroy-Panzani. So key is her contribution that It’s fair to say the director couldn’t have delivered the film she had planned without her.” – The Arts Desk Jun 14, 2024 Full Review The Book of Clarence (2023) 66% 3/5 “A confident, entertaining jaunt with smart humour, whose evangelicism goes only as far as preaching the importance of self-belief. Which its creator clearly has by the bucketload.” – The Arts Desk Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Back to Black (2024) 35% 3/5 “The more sordid elements seem to have been hustled off-screen. Still, go for the music... for the genuine sense of her genius that the film is still able to project. ” – The Arts Desk Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Drive-Away Dolls (2024) 63% 2/5 “Coen has fun, too, with camera-angles and editing... But these are surface touches that can’t disguise the script’s lack of either a strong comedy compass or some kind of gentler core; somehow it stumbles to a sappy conclusion.” – The Arts Desk Mar 19, 2024 Full Review Janey (2024) 86% 4/5 “This is a standard piece of verité film making, but it’s also smart and well edited, gradually building up a rounded portrait of a woman who hid in her local library when things at home got bad and she needed humour to get her through.” – The Arts Desk Mar 13, 2024 Full Review Origin (2023) 81% 3/5 “[Ava Duvernay's] approach has the benefit of yoking together all the disparate historical elements in Wilkerson’s book, and adding the author in as a narrator. But this hefty mix unbalances the film and stifles some of its momentum.” – The Arts Desk Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Lisa Frankenstein (2024) 52% 3/5 “A schlockfest for horror fans still yearning for the ersatz flavours of 1980s pop culture, from the novelty phones to the ornamental flamingos on the lawn. It’s an amusing exercise in style, but emotionally thin, despite the bravura of its presentation.” – The Arts Desk Mar 1, 2024 Full Review The Taste of Things (2023) 97% 4/5 “It’s a small, agreeably idiosyncratic film, beautifully crafted.” – The Arts Desk Feb 19, 2024 Full Review All of Us Strangers (2023) 96% 5/5 “It’s an extraordinary film, both delicate and intense, a miniature that covers epic territory -- grief, loss, loneliness, fear and, above all, love. ” – The Arts Desk Jan 26, 2024 Full Review
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