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How bad is your drive to win? And what if you’re not playing the same game as your opponent? Challengers follows three ambitious tennis players: best friends Patrick (Josh O’Connor) and Art (Mike Faist), and rising star Tashi (Zendaya). When the two boys meet Tashi for the first time, they are adolescent wrecks, both instantaneously lust struck. It’s a libidinous spark that will affect the trio for the rest of their lives, as cocksure Patrick and more reserved Art decide to simultaneously pursue her. She promises to give her phone number to whoever wins the next match. Game on, as the on-court...
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In the near future, the United States isn’t so united anymore. At the heart of the country’s second civil war is a president (Nick Offerman, in non-distractingly Trumpian mode), who refuses to leave the White House. The Fascist-in-Chief has given himself a third term, disbanded the FBI, and used air strikes against American citizens. All for ego. Sound eerily probable? Writer-director Alex Garland (Sunshine, Ex Machina, Annihilation) is counting on it. To a point though, as he keeps things deliberately vague. What we know is carefully drip-fed to us. California and Texas have joined forces to ...
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When stepping out of Welsh director Rose Glass’ debut feature film, 2019’s Saint Maud, I was left in a prolonged dirge that I couldn't shake off. When the rotting fruit bowl I call a brain finally decided to resume its functions, the only think I could think to coherently gasp was: “Fuck.” As my sweary outburst suggests, there’s something so uniquely intoxicating about discovering a new cinematic voice. But with such a layered and nerve-jangling calling card comes the risk of the dreaded sophomore slump. Unwarranted fears, as it turns out, as Glass’ bigger, bolder follow-up only serves to conf...
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There’s been quite a bit of buzz surrounding Australian directing duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ Late Night With The Devil, which premiered over a year ago at SXSW Festival in the US. After some time on the festival circuit, a few wins along the way (Best Screenplay at the 56th Sitges Film Festival; Grand Prix at Hallucinations Collectives), and even a Stephen King endorsement, it’s finally out in cinemas. It even tallied up a suspiciously satanic $666,666 gross on its third day in the US. No joke. All promising signs that we’re in for something special. Late Night With The Devil sets the scen...
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From Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard to Nina in Black Swan or Madeline in Josephine Decker’s criminally underseen Madeline’s Madeline, there is an entire subgenre of (usually female) artists losing their grip on reality. Stopmotion, the debut feature from Robert Morgan, falls into this category, as well as another horror subgenre dealing with the act of filmmaking or filmwatching, like Prano Bailey-Bond's excellent 2021 debut Censor – which also deals with fayed reality. Operating at the intersection of these two genre spaces – with some distinct echoes of Censor throughout – Morgan crafts a...
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Filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen have spent four decades showing how oddball comedies and darkly existential dramas need not exist in segregation. From 1984’s Blood Simple to 2018’s Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, via the highs of Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men, their capacity to mood-merge has been unparalleled. From time to time, each sibling goes their own way, pursuing separate projects behind the camera and leaning into different sensibilities and creative interests. Joel Coen gave us his intense and stark The Tragedy of Macbeth in 2021, ...
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From apparently unadaptable cerebral sci-fi (Arrival) to against-all-odds superior sequels (Blade Runner 2049) via redefining how stressful traffic jams can be (Sicario), Dennis Villeneuve has proven time and time again he can deliver on the seemingly impossible. Adapting Frank Herbert’s famously sprawling (some might say tortuously impenetrable) epic sci-fi novel "Dune" may have been his most ambitious undertaking - especially when considering the space saga previously defeated Alejandro Jodorowsky and made David Lynch label his 1984 effort “a total failure”. His first instalment in 2021 was ...
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Written and directed by Ava DuVernay (When They See Us, 13th), Origin is an adaptation of nonfiction book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents". It chronicles the life of Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis), the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, as she embarks on a writer’s journey leading to the writing of her 2020 bestseller. The film opens with the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, and sees Wilkerson reluctantly drawn in by the case – especially when her mother Ruby (Emily Yancy) states that no matter how tragic the death of the young Black man is, he sho...
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The title of veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s powerful new film refers to the forests that make up the no-man’s land between Belarus and Poland. There, refugees from the Middle East and Africa desperately try to reach the European Union and find themselves trapped in an absurd to-and-fro overseen by both the Belarusian and Polish governments. Refugees are lured to the border, with the promise of safe passage to the EU. The reality is that they are political pawns in a rigged game orchestrated by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko; they are brutally evicted between the two side...
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