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Longlegs - Though hardly the 'scariest film of the decade' as advertised on the posters, this, for the most part, is a nicely-made horror film by director Perkins (son of Anthony),...

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Hundreds of Beavers - Cheslik, the director of this madcap misfire, has obviously overdosed on too many Wile E Coyote films, and not in a good way. A mixture of cartoon and live action,...

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Greyhound of a Girl, A - A charming, beautifully coloured, multi-national cartoon for both adults and children. Adapting Roddy Doyle's book, Italian animator D'Alo keeps the Irish settings and...

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Exorcism, The - Largely shot in 2019, with reshoots last year, presumably to ramp up the horror, this rather puzzling chiller centres on a powerful performance by Crowe as Tony Miller,...

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Freud's Last Session - A talky but frequently engrossing character study, based rather obviously on a play that posits Sigmund Freud (Hopkins), at the end of his life, in a (probably...

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Bad Boys: Ride or Die - The subtitle of this latest comic book-style 'Bad Boys' movie is totally meaningless with regard to the plot, but I suppose it looks good on the posters. The...

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Dead Don't Hurt, The - Critics gathered together after the preview screening of this very long, slow-moving, elegiac western, trying to make sense of it. Certainly the timeline is...

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House in Jerusalem, A - Whatever else you might expect from the title, it can't have been a ghost story. Yet this is exactly what we get from this very slow movie, making a belated appearance...

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