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Dark River

By Bradley Gibson | June 2018

Clio Barnard’s Dark River is a study in the psychological damage done to a family by sexual abuse. A dark cloud spreads…

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Clio Barnard’s Dark River is a study in the psychological damage done to a family by sexual abuse. A dark cloud spreads out from pastoral flocks of sheep...

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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami mixes concert footage and documentary styles to offer an unprecedented look behind the mask of the worlds most enigmatic...

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The Lower Rooms runs on dread—not of anything specific, but the dread that comes from uncertainty. It does so quietly and without drawing attention to...

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Purdah is defined as “...the custom in certain Muslim communities of keeping women in seclusion, with clothing that conceals them completely, in order to...

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So, I guess food docs are a bona fide genre now. I’ve seen a lot of food docs this year and it makes it that much harder for a single film to stand out...

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Lucas (Oliver Singer) lands a part on a major new Netflix fantasy series. But after retooling the script, his character gets sidelined to just two...

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Contrary to its title, The Year of Spectacular Men is a showcase for a series of pretty forgettable men. There’s the straight-up asshole, who’s...

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Efficient pacing and a couple of genuinely surprising developments elevate the eminently watchable if flawed Remote, a Canadian-produced short film that...

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Describing a movie’s plot as ‘X meets X’ is pretty darn lazy when you get right down to it. For example, stating Equilibrium is like The Matrix meets...

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