Drama films
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3 out of 5 stars.
Between Two Worlds review – Emmanuel Carrère’s jagged, furious tale of low-paid work
3 out of 5 stars.Newcomer Hélène Lambert excels alongside Juliette Binoche in this gritty drama about friendship and lies on the breadline
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4 out of 5 stars.A son reflects on the struggles he faced with his brother and wayward mother after they moved to France from Africa, in a meditative coming-of-age story
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2 out of 5 stars.
Broker review – Kore-eda gets the tone all wrong in sudsy Korean baby adoption tale
2 out of 5 stars.The director of Shoplifters shows naivety in trying to turn two baby kidnappers into lovable rogues. Even Parasite’s Song Kang-ho can’t make it stick
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4 out of 5 stars.Agnieszka Smoczyńska directs this well-acted, disturbing drama about June and Jennifer Gibbons, whose shared isolation ended in criminal acts
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3 out of 5 stars.
Tori and Lokita review – clarity of purpose in the Dardennes’ parable of the dispossessed
3 out of 5 stars.The new film from double Palme d’Or winners focusses on a pair of young immigrants to Belgium who find themselves working in dangerous situations -
2 out of 5 stars.Mildly eco-catastrophising offering, in which pasty boiler-suited characters try to cope with liquid disaster
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Lee Mi-Mi’s intoxicating film, which sits in a rich cinematic tradition of all-girls’ schools, with their homoerotic tensions, as social microcosms, earns a rare screening this week
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4 out of 5 stars.Casting real-life fishers as his stars, Maltese-American director Alex Camilleri’s paean to his homeland is a neo-realistic classic in the making
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3 out of 5 stars.On the eve of war, a young woman is hit by a double disaster in this unabashed Scottish melodrama
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3 out of 5 stars.Latest from Romania’s Cristian Mungiu is a low-key drama about a multi-ethnic community in Transylvania who turn on a group of Sri Lankan immigrants
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2 out of 5 stars.
The Triangle of Sadness review – heavy-handed satire on the super-rich loses its shape
2 out of 5 stars.The new film from Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund takes aim at obvious targets, and makes a mess of hitting them
Luzzu review – moving account of Maltese fishers in choppy waters
4 out of 5 stars.