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Where we answer the question, "What did you see this year that you liked?

Trophy Case

Where we answer the question, "What did you see this year that you liked?

Sep 09, 2024 Nightbitch: Feral Motherhood
Nightbitch: Feral Motherhood

I am not yet a mother, but to look with the eyes of one through this movie was at once a warning and a love letter. A true treat. Amy Adams once again earns her status as the most nuanced and intelligent performer of her time, putting in a fantastic

Sep 09, 2024 Men Of War: Required Reading
Men Of War: Required Reading

Ok, so the joke is over. That failed Venezuelan coup was actually very serious. Ok. Kind of serious. Ok. Listen. Ok, hold on. Men of War will give you a very clear and incredibly well organised and probably accurate account of the entire situation — one that seemed so opaque at

Lean in to ‘The Listeners’
Sep 09, 2024 Lean in to ‘The Listeners’

What a feast of two episodes, at the edge of my seat the entire time only to drop the twist right when we’re leaving. As it should be. The Listeners is very deceptive, for reasons that will become obvious when you see the second episode, but for the first

by Umnia El-Neil
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Sep 09, 2024 Lean in to ‘The Listeners’
Lean in to ‘The Listeners’

What a feast of two episodes, at the edge of my seat the entire time only to drop the twist right when we’re leaving. As it should be. The Listeners is very deceptive, for reasons that will become obvious when you see the second episode, but for the first

by Umnia El-Neil
Sep 09, 2024 Nightbitch: Feral Motherhood
Nightbitch: Feral Motherhood

I am not yet a mother, but to look with the eyes of one through this movie was at once a warning and a love letter. A true treat. Amy Adams once again earns her status as the most nuanced and intelligent performer of her time, putting in a fantastic

by Umnia El-Neil
Sep 09, 2024 Men Of War: Required Reading
Men Of War: Required Reading

Ok, so the joke is over. That failed Venezuelan coup was actually very serious. Ok. Kind of serious. Ok. Listen. Ok, hold on. Men of War will give you a very clear and incredibly well organised and probably accurate account of the entire situation — one that seemed so opaque at

by Umnia El-Neil
Sep 06, 2024 Meet the Barbarians
Meet the Barbarians

Julie Delpy has a brilliant sense of humour for such a politically minded auteur. With this film, and despite her recent public gaffes, she paints an incredibly defiant portrait of the current European anti-refugee sentiment, all of it’s facets and arguments, and refuted each with a careful, hopeful hand.

by Umnia El-Neil
Trophy Case   -   Sep 06, 2024 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

TW: African Women vs Familial Patriarchy Rungano Nyoni has handed the world a looking glass they haven’t held before. This is not an unfamiliar story — but it is unfamiliarly told, amongst iPhones and Zoom Jobs and Pink suitcases, we find the same Familial secrets being held, the generational cycle.

by Umnia El-Neil
Reviews   -   Sep 05, 2024 Sing Sing, soothe your soul
Sing Sing, soothe your soul

I can’t promise you’re going to leave this film feeling that goody goody fuzzy wuzzy feeling. Maybe a tiny bit. What you’ll leave the theatre with is relief. In Colman Domingo’s hands, you are always safe. However, in an incredibly rare turn of events, it’s

by Umnia El-Neil
Reviews   -   Sep 05, 2024 Kneecap is a party
Kneecap is a party

Oh my god holy fuck this was amazing. So I’d never heard of Kneecap before - seated in the Imperial Core as I am, I haven’t even heard it around! Which is why this film making it to theatres, and Fassbender’s endorsement, is truly as much a

by Umnia El-Neil
Reviews   -   Sep 05, 2024 Blink Twice couldn’t have been any other way.
Blink Twice couldn’t have been any other way.

There was no version of this film that was going to be able to warn you properly in advance about what you were about to see. content warning: GRAPHIC depictions of sexual violence, coercion and r*pe. SPOILERS. For a film that attempts something this big, and that does not

by Umnia El-Neil
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