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Case 137

★★★★ - TIME OUT - Léa Drucker is superb in a lean, riveting French police procedural - Back in 2022, The Night of the 12th examined an all-male detective team’s attempts to solve the murder of a young woman in a small town and exposed sad truths about how women are perceived and treated.  As its…
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Savage House

★★★★★ - THE TIMES - Grant excels as a slippery Georgian social climber and Foy is equally compelling as his long-suffering wife in a brilliant black comedy - You don’t need to be even loosely conversant in the Jacobite uprising of 1715, the smallpox outbreak of the same year and the political…
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Colours of Time

★★★★ - THE POST - Absorbing French familial drama will leave an impression - Two years of “unravelling” family ties has resulted in a gathering together of all the known descendants of Adele Vermillard. It’s not for some altruistic purpose or hitherto undiscovered fortune they’ve been assembled…
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Islands

★★★★★ - THE STANDARD - Sam Riley sizzles in this scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight - As Sam Riley’s Tom wakes up face-down in the sand in what looks like the Sahara, audiences are in for a scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight from German director Jan-Ole Gerster.In fact it’s the…
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The Odyssey

★★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN - Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis - Christopher Nolan reinvents the Homeric legend as a colossal origin-myth story of postwar disillusion, an epic ordeal of anguish witnessed by the dead and presided over by capricious…
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Hamilton Gardens

★★★★ - THE POST - Hamilton Gardens is a national treasure. Go and see this film. - I lived around Hamilton until I was 18 or so, but all I knew about Hamilton Gardens was that they existed. I've never visited them. Which, as so many things do, makes me feel like an idiot. It turns out that…
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