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Perhaps the most complimentary thing that can be said about Barney Elliott’s directorial debut, The Debt, is that it has the best of intentions. Unfortunately, a worthy message doesn’t necessarily equate to a good movie and, in this case, ...

The difficulty with making a thriller based on actual events is that aspects of the film are often at cross-purposes. There’s a little of this going on in Eduardo Mendoza’s 2017 feature, The Last Hour, but, on balance, the historical elemen...

Writer/director Javier Fuentes-Leon’s The Vanished Elephant is a moody, atmospheric neo-noir crime story that starts in traditional territory before taking the viewer on a trippy, mind-bending journey where the reliability of the narrator com...