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Insyriated | Review ★★★★
Van Leeuw’s tense chamber piece locks us into a collapse of family and society with painful, uncompromising honesty.
Detroit | Review ★★
Bigelow and Boal’s latest collaboration depicting the 1967 Detroit race riots has crude impact, but is sorely lacking in empathy to penetrate any further.
Final Portrait | Review ★★★★
Tucci’s angle on eccentric artist Alberto Giacometti is one of the most inspired biopics in recent years.
Atomic Blonde | Review ★★
Despite Theron’s icy, intimidating lead performance, Leitch’s swaggering Cold War thriller is less seductive and subversive than it thinks.
Land of Mine | Review ★★★★
While powerfully fraught, Zandvliet’s historical drama touches sensitively on the consequences of war.
City of Ghosts | Review ★★★★
Covering the resistant civilian correspondence coming out of ISIS-held Raqqa, Heineman’s documentary is a haunting, personal account of those risking their lives to report.
Dunkirk | Review ★★★★
Nolan’s historical-survival epic has terrifying immersive power but struggles against waves of excess.
