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Novocaine

Novocaine successfully maps Jack Quaid as a terrific leading man

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Marching Powder

Marching Powder is not for everyone

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A Working Man

Less is ultimately more when it comes down to David Ayer’s A Working Man

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Black Bag

Black Bag is another yearly reminder that Steven Soderbergh is a cinematic genius

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In the Lost Lands

In the Lost Lands falls into the camp of being an excruciating missed opportunity.

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Heart Eyes

Heart Eyes wears idiocy as a badge of honour, plays with its statements, ridicules the ridiculous, and finds a surprising amount of heart and entertainment

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The Monkey

An effective and entertaining feature that once again puts Perkins front and centre of the Horror genre as a master of his craft

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Gladiator II

Gladiator II seems to strip away so much of Scott’s own thematic and tone of emotive catharsis: be it morality, empathy and the like

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The Exorcism: Cinematic Healing

In his latest essay, Jak-Luke Sharp takes a look at the deeply personal and often haunting look at Cinematic Healing in Joshua John Miller’s The Exorcism

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Rebel Ridge

Rebel Ridge pushes and pushes to an inevitable climax and yet still feels refreshing

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Kneecap

Kneecap have successfully managed to educate, bring conversation and dialogue into the mainstream

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Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus is best described as a 'best-of' from the franchise

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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F is a fine and occasionally good endeavour

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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

Costner has put everything on the line to deliver a vision on-screen of not only America, the West but the power and immersion of cinema. Does he succeed?

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Boy Kills World

Boy Kills World is an engaging and entertaining rollercoaster ride of thrilling action

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Back to Black

Back to Black is a conscience cleaner from the very same people who damned this woman

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Psycho (1998): Dissecting the Auteur

In his latest essay, Jak-Luke Sharp takes a look at the maligned remake of Psycho to see what on earth director Gus Van Sant was doing

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a great entry into a surprising franchise that still feels it has more to give thematically and narratively

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Wicked Little Letters

Sharrock's Wicked Little Letters is another entry into her growing operandi of feel-good dramas

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I.S.S.

I.S.S. has no reason to care about or watch such a venture that feels so ordinary and flat