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There’s an inevitability about The Danish Girl being well received by critics and at awards ceremonies.  This is, after all, a movie with a strong social message about tolerance and inclusivity. Dramatically, however, it’s a mixed ba...

During the early part of his career, filmmaker Richard Linklater had a fondness for freeform films that were strong on setting and character interaction and light on narrative. His first three professional productions – his calling-card Slackers...

I'm sure the story of bounty-hunter Domino Harvey would make for compelling cinema if only Tony Scott had decided to film it without the masturbatory excesses that are evident in Domino. Over-the-top doesn't begin to describe Scott's off-putting, ...

I have seen Ari Aster's Eddington described in several places as a "provocation." To me, that's too erudite a term to apply to this middling, unfocused motion picture. Aster's cThe more he tries to amp up the "controversial" elements, the more he ...

In recent years, the two animation studios working under the Disney umbrella have been making a concerted attempt to shake free of their reputation as a White Princess Factory. The result: a pipeline of features populated with diverse casts – Coc...

If I was looking for a single word to describe Enola Holmes, I’d probably settle on “charming.” That’s not because it features the best example of period-piece romance (although it shows signs of appealing to the rom-com crowd) or that...

Generic and forgettable - those are the two words that immediately come to mind to describe Chris Wedge's first solo outing as an animated feature film director. (With Carlos Saldanha, he created Ice Age). What makes matters worse is that Epic isn'...