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Review: ‘Macbeth’
Like it or not, Kenneth Branagh’s well-known brand of easy optimism, kindness, and generosity that characterised all of his Shakespearean adaptations (yes, even his Henry V and Hamlet) seems a thing of...
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Film in Oxford: The masked conservatism of Deadpool
Deadpool has been peddled as one of a kind in the ever-growing Marvel cinematic canon. To some extent, the pitch is a fair one. It is difficult to imagine a member of The Avengers freely dropping...
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Film in Oxford: ‘American Honey’
American Honey starts with a beginning and then goes and goes, with no middle-peak and ending-plateau to complete a classical plot arc. Instead, we ride along on a journey which takes various pit stops...
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Film in Oxford: ‘Café Society’ is classy but not a classic
Shake together a cocktail of jazz, glamour, melancholy, gangsters, fame and doomed young love, and you will get Woody Allen’s latest nostalgic homage to 1930s Hollywood, Café Society. Premiered at the...
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Review: ‘I, Daniel Blake’
When uttering the title out loud, “I, Daniel Blake” is a weighted declaration. The words are ordered and phrased as the opening of a testimony, an introduction spoken before a jury, or typed on a paper...
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Film in Oxford: Melancholic Luxury in ‘A Single Man’ and ‘Nocturnal Animals’
Tom Ford, after only two films, has captured and developed a distinctive style — aesthetically clean cut, and inhabited by quietly soulful and lonely characters. A Single Man (2009) saw Ford’s...
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Review: ‘Paterson’
Paterson is both a film and a poem, a loving poem that throws a warm light on the faces in the cinema. Adam Driver plays Paterson, a New Jersey Transit bus driver living in the town of Paterson. The...
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Review: ‘Arrival’
Twelve mysterious spaceships arrive on earth – who should we send as a spokesperson for the human race? In Arrival (2016), the answer is Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams); a linguistics expert suffering...
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Review: ‘A Ghost Story’
It is a trying task to fit David Lowery’s A Ghost Story into a cinematic category. It is neither horror, drama, comedy or thriller. Instead it occupies a meditative, oneiric tone and mode of...
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Review: ‘Loving Vincent’
Loving Vincent is a recent biographical picture focused on Vincent Van Gogh, directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman. “Loving Vincent” as a title, I suppose, is intended to invoke both the film’s...
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