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REVIEW: Speak No Evil (2022)

January 4, 2023 Grant Watson

Danish couple Bjørn and Louise travel on vacation with their daughter Agnes to Tuscany. There they meet a Dutch family – Patrick, Karin, and son Abel – and immediately hit it off. Once back at home, they receive an invitation … Continue reading REVIEW: Speak No Evil (2022)

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MIFF REVIEW: A House Made of Splinters (2022)

July 26, 2022 Grant Watson

Please note that this review contains references to self-harm and mental illness. We first encounter Kolya wiping his own graffiti from the doors of a halfway house. He cuts a rebellious figure, using the same marker pen with which he … Continue reading MIFF REVIEW: A House Made of Splinters (2022)

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REVIEW: A Trip to Mars (1918)

October 25, 2021April 30, 2022 Grant Watson

An ambitious war hero (Gunnar Tolnæs) leads a mission to the red planet in Danish filmmaker Holger-Madsen’s ambitious silent feature A Trip to Mars (1918). A Trip to Mars was released just 16 years after George Méliès’ iconic A Trip to … Continue reading REVIEW: A Trip to Mars (1918)

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REVIEW: The Guilty (2018)

September 9, 2021 Grant Watson

Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren) is a police officer under investigation for the illegal shooting of a suspect. While protesting his innocence, he finds himself restricted to working the emergency telephone lines night after night. On the last night of work … Continue reading REVIEW: The Guilty (2018)

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REVIEW: Another Round (2020)

February 14, 2021 Grant Watson

Thomas Vinterberg’s new comedy-drama is a striking piece of work. It is genuinely funny in all of the right places, yet often feels too awkward to laugh at due to its overwhelming patina of melancholy. At the same time that … Continue reading REVIEW: Another Round (2020)

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REVIEW: Aniara (2018)

November 17, 2020 Grant Watson

Who could have guessed that a Swedish science fiction film would turn out as bleak and troubled as every other genre of Swedish cinema? Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja’s 2018 film Aniara is based, on all things, on a 1956 … Continue reading REVIEW: Aniara (2018)

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REVIEW: Song of the Sea (2014)

September 10, 2020 Grant Watson

Ben (David Ralwe) lives on a lighthouse with his father Colin (Brendan Gleeson) and little sister Saoirse. His mother vanished the night she gave birth to Saoirse, who is non-verbal. Ben blames his sister for his mother’s disappearance, while Colin … Continue reading REVIEW: Song of the Sea (2014)

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REVIEW: Koko-Di Koko-Da (2019)

August 19, 2019 Grant Watson

A couple spend a holiday with their eight year-old daughter, only for it to reach an inexplicable and tragic end. Three years later – now in a broken relationship – they go camping in the woods, only to encounter a … Continue reading REVIEW: Koko-Di Koko-Da (2019)

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REVIEW: The Man (2017)

July 2, 2019 Grant Watson

Simon (Søren Malling) is a hugely successful fine artist living in Copenhagen. There he runs a workshop of young artists assisting him in producing his works, with a devoted wife (Ane Dahl Torp) and a not-so-secret mistress (Sus Wilkins). When … Continue reading REVIEW: The Man (2017)

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REVIEW: Red Road (2006)

May 21, 2019 Grant Watson

Jackie Morrison (Kate Dickie) lives in Glasgow, and monitors CCTV cameras for a living. One night she recognises a man on one of the monitors, Clyde Henderson (Tony Curran), and tracks his movements to the notorious Red Road apartments in … Continue reading REVIEW: Red Road (2006)

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