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This romantic, Hungarian neo-noir is more A Mad Girl’s Love Song than Vertigo.

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (March 19, 2021 on Curzon Home Cinema) Cert. TBC, 94 mins Hungarian writer-director Lili Horvát’s (The Wednesday Child) second feature film ha ...

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FILMS TO WATCH AT HOME: Robert Tanitch reviews 6 films

COUNTY LINES (BFI). A national crisis: thousands of children are being recruited and groomed in Britain to work as drug mules. Director Henry Blake worked in a referral unit for eleven years as a coun ...

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God’s Own Country director does two great actresses and their characters a disservice

Ammonite (March 26, on BFI iPlayer and digital outlets) Cert 15, 120 mins. Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country might have been a pale, self-conscious, and heavy-handed imitation of Brokeback Mountain, but ...

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Orlando Bloom astonishes in a topical British feature debut that does not do him justice.

Retaliation (released digitally on March 26, 2021) Cert 18, 93 mins. It is not unusual for handsome, young actors who play romantic leads in big budget films to hit forty and realise that they have no ...

andrew 486 views 0 likes Mar 29, 2021