5 min movie guide
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Miss Sloane
Jessica Chastain gives a powerful career-best performance in the title role of the excellent Miss Sloane which is unquestionably the most compelling political thriller of the year and which will certainly captivate audiences everywhere …. particularly ones that include feminists …. and may finally give Miss Chastain the Best Actress Oscar that she has been nominated…
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The Brand New Testament
God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is not a very nice deity. He is mean to his wife (Yolande Moreau) who he bullies into silence, and he will not allow Ea (Pili Groyne) his 1o-year-old daughter go out of their high rise apartment in Brussels. He spends his whole day dressed in his pajamas in his office on his computer taking…
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Manchester By The Sea
Having directed just three feature films in 16 years the twice Oscar nominated filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan can hardly be described as prolific, but when the work is as phenomenally wonderful as Manchester By The Sea, then the long wait is definitely worth it. A breakout hit at Sundance earlier this year, the movie was originally…
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Ukrainian Sheriffs
The pair of Ukrainian Sheriffs featured in this intriguing odd-ball documentary written/filmed/directed and edited by Roman Bondarchuk bear no resemblance at all to anyone bearing the same title in the Wild West. But then that is hardly surprising as Stara Zburjivka their remote dilapidated village in Southern Ukraine bordering on to Crimea looks like time has…
