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Film round-up: February 15, 2024
Hideous violence, food porn, funk legends and incomprehensible trips; MARIA DUARTE reviews The Promised Land, The Taste of Things, Getting it Back: the story of Cymande, and Eureka
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Film of the week
Revolutionary for sale
MARIA DUARTE salutes a new biopic of Bob Marley, but is this the ghetto kid who dreamed of Che Guevara and the Black Panthers?
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Film round-up: February 8, 2024
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews The Settlers, Occupied City, The Iron Claw and Gassed Up
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Film of the Week:
A clear-cut warning from history
MARIA DUARTE recommends a chilling reconstruction of the Nazis' deceptive 'ordinariness'
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Film of the Week:
Your body, your choice
MARIA DUARTE welcomes a campaigning film that aims to raise awareness of intersex people
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Film of the week
Feuds and feudalism
MARIA DUARTE is captivated by an epic tale about the hardship of peasant life in Poland in the late 19th century
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Film of the week
Making a spectacle
MARIA DUARTE is impressed by the portrait of a radical queer activist in Putin’s Russia
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Film of the Week:
Ama of the Scots
Never mind the blockbusters says MARIA DUARTE, this unique and intimate study of immigrant experience in the UK is the film to see
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Film of the week
Mirren Mirren, on the war
MARIA DUARTE respects an extraordinary performance by Helen Mirren in a highly partisan account of the Golda Meir premiership
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Film round up: September 28, 2023
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews The Creator, Flora and Son, The Retirement Plan, and Where The Wind Blows