It's award season everywhere but I have to confess some admiration for the Irina Palm d'Or: For critics, such films have now become a fact of life, the lumpen low-budget…
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Compelled once again by Christmas deadlines to sum up the year in cinema, I have been thinking a lot about how some movies stay with you and some don't, how…
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The most purely emotional experience I have had in a cinema this year was watching the delightful documentary Young @ Heart during the Film Festival. It’s a life-affirming (and by…
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