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Tom Cruise hams it up as an oil-drilling oligarch in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s overstuffed satire. Digger review: lwlies.com/reviews/digger
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Digger review – a satire with no meaningful target
Tom Cruise hams it up as an oil-drilling oligarch in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s overstuffed satire.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 28/09/2026
Molly Manners’s witty coming-of-age tale follows two schoolgirls who turn falling in love with their Geography teacher into a summer project. Extra Geography review: lwlies.com/reviews/extr...
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Extra Geography review – a delightfully heightened take on girlhood
Molly Manners’s witty coming-of-age tale follows two ambitious schoolgirls who turn falling in love with their Geography teacher into a summer project.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 28/09/2026
Suzannah Mirghani spins a tender coming-of-age story from Sudanese cotton, reclaiming a country too often seen only through tragedy. Cotton Queen review: lwlies.com/reviews/cott...
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Cotton Queen review – reclaims the crown for Sudanese girls
Suzannah Mirghani spins a tender coming-of-age story from Sudanese cotton, reclaiming a country too often seen only through tragedy.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 24/09/2026
Charles Melton on getting jacked up and fighting fit for his enigmatic role in Her Private Hell. In conversation with Charles Melton: lwlies.com/in-conversat...
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Charles Melton: ‘It was like a waking dream’
Charles Melton on getting jacked up and fighting fit for his enigmatic role in Her Private Hell.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 24/09/2026
With Crazy Lips and Gore From Outer Space resurfacing, we speak to J‑Horror pioneer Takashige Ichise about the unruly side of Japan’s Y2K horror boom and the films that slipped through the cracks. lwlies.com/in-conversat...
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The forgotten hybrids of Japan’s Y2K horror boom
With Crazy Lips and Gore From Outer Space resurfacing, we speak to J-Horror pioneer Takashige Ichise about the unruly side of Japan’s Y2K horror boom and…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 23/09/2026
Horror heroine Sophie Thatcher talks music, madness and surrendering to the strange world of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell. In conversation with Sophie Thatcher: lwlies.com/in-conversat...
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Sophie Thatcher: ‘It felt like the most I’d ever been seen’
Horror heroine Sophie Thatcher talks music, madness and surrendering to the strange world of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 23/09/2026
Cult auteur Nicolas Winding Refn on his return to cinema – and from the dead – with a neon-hued fable about a father-daughter relationship from hell. In conversation with Nicolas Winding Refn: lwlies.com/in-conversat...
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Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘I’d been given a gift to start over again’
Nicolas Winding Refn on his return to the cinema – and from the dead – with a neon-hued fable about a father-daughter relationship from hell.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 23/09/2026
Irrepressible and unique, Nicolas Winding Refn returns for some big-screen shenanigans in this pristine, slowcore cyberpunk fable that offers a masterclass in atmosphere and worldbuilding. Her Private Hell review: lwlies.com/reviews/her-...
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Her Private Hell review – a phantasmagoria bathed in neon
Irrepressible and unique, Nicolas Winding Refn returns for some big-screen shenanigans in this pristine, slowcore cyberpunk fable that offers a…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 23/09/2026
Jane Austen’s classic romance finds fresh life in Georgia Oakley’s moodier, more naturalistic adaptation. Sense and Sensibility review: lwlies.com/reviews/sens...
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Sense and Sensibility review – a wildly beautiful successor
Jane Austen’s classic romance finds fresh life in Georgia Oakley’s moodier, more naturalistic adaptation.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 21/09/2026
Na Hong-jin returns with the most expensive Korean film ever made, a rip-snorting creature feature with eccentricity and action to burn. Hope review: lwlies.com/reviews/hope
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Hope review – a rip-snorting creature feature
Na Hong-jin returns with the most expensive Korean film ever made, a rip-snorting creature feature with eccentricity and action to burn.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 21/09/2026
In his first film in 14 years, Ross McElwee comes to terms with the death of his son Adrian, and what good documentary is in the face of heartbreak. Remake review: lwlies.com/reviews/remake
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Remake review – a remarkable tribute
In his first film in 14 years, Ross McElwee comes to terms with the death of his son Adrian, and what good documentary is in the face of heartbreak.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
Saoirse Ronan excels as a burnt-out primary school teacher in this unhinged satire that’s as funny as it is unsettling. Bad Apples review: lwlies.com/reviews/bad-...
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Bad Apples review – twisted black comedy
Saoirse Ronan stars as a burnt-out teacher in this gleefully unhinged satire on a jolted system that’s as funny as it is unsettling.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
Garth Jennings mines a treasure trove of archive footage in this joyous concert film, bringing Pulp’s magic to the big screen. Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review: lwlies.com/reviews/pulp
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Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – will leave a huge smile…
Garth Jennings mines a treasure trove of archive footage in this joyous concert film, bringing Pulp’s magic to the big screen.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
Lance Hammer’s long-awaited follow-up to Ballast is a harrowing yet vital tale of dementia, family and the limits of consent. Queen at Sea review: lwlies.com/reviews/quee...
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Queen at Sea review – a harrowing vision of the future
Lance Hammer's long-awaited follow-up to Ballast is a harrowing yet vital tale of dementia, family and the limits of consent.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
Bad Bunny video director Stillz makes a startling feature debut with this found-footage odyssey through Medellín’s hillside comunas. Barrio Triste review: lwlies.com/reviews/barr...
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Barrio Triste review – a haunting requiem for the lost boys
Bad Bunny video director Stillz makes a startling feature debut with this found-footage odyssey through Medellín’s hillside comunas.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
A light, amusing run-out for Shaun and co, this time battling a Bigfoot-like monster who’s laying siege to their sleepy English village. Shaun the Sheep review: lwlies.com/reviews/shau...
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom review – little sheep of…
A light, amusing run-out for Shaun and co, this time battling a Bigfoot-like monster who’s laying siege to their sleepy English village.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
A new high bar has been set for video game adaptations in Zach Cregger’s unabashedly nasty take on the beloved, long-running zombie franchise. Resident Evil review: lwlies.com/reviews/resi...
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Resident Evil review – an absolute blast
A new high bar has been set for video game adaptations in Zach Cregger's unabashedly nasty take on the beloved, long-running zombie franchise.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 16/09/2026
’Miike is a director of almost superhuman productivity who churns through genre setups with a first-thought-best-thought directness and uncensored id, but Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo is a quite straightforward policier in a grim, often staid register.’ Bad Lieutenant review: lwlies.com/toronto-film...
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Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo – first-look review
A corrupt cop chases two serial killers through Tokyo’s underworld in Takashi Miike's contribution to the Bad Lieutenant series.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 16/09/2026
’The impossible and self-absorbed Method actor is a stereotype everyone knows; Eisenberg’s humor depends on recognition and exaggeration, not satire or absurdity.’ The Debut review: lwlies.com/toronto-film...
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The Debut – first-look review
An impressive showcase for Jesse Eisenberg’s musical theatre hobby, but this is Julianne Moore’s movie all the way.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 16/09/2026
’Morally vile, intellectually void, badly made and interminably dull.’ The Last Photograph review: lwlies.com/toronto-film...
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The Last Photograph – first-look review
The passion project that Zack Snyder has spent the last two decades developing is an unforgivably dreadful, turgid slog.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 16/09/2026
’Rock’s last film as writer-director, the misogynistic and self-aggrandising autofiction Top Five, was an entertainment-industry passion play, and so is this one.’ Misty Green review: lwlies.com/toronto-film...
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Misty Green – first-look review
Chris Rock’s latest feature leans hard on Rosalind Eleazar’s lead performance as a fading actress to carry a plot that rarely rises to meet her.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 16/09/2026
’An adaptation of the frequently filmed Japanese ghost-story Yotsuya Kaidan, The Face of Horror analyses male lust and feminine revenge in an era of primal gender norms.’ The Face of Horror review: lwlies.com/toronto-film...
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The Face of Horror – first-look review
Anna Biller’s long-awaited follow-up to her cult classic The Love Witch adapts the famous Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan for 14th-century England.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 16/09/2026
’Its loud insistent allyship can only feel like another tiresome layer of artifice atop a modern-day dating world that’s already more complicated than anyone wants it to be.’ Everybody Wants to F*ck Me review: lwlies.com/toronto-film...
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Everybody Wants to F*ck Me – first-look review
When Taron Egerton’s nice guy becomes irresistible to every woman he meets overnight, Jonathan Schey’s takedown of performative allyship doesn’t quite…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 16/09/2026
🧵 Toronto International Film Festival 2026: Review Master Thread 🧵 lwlies.com/toronto-film... #TIFF26
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 15/09/2026
Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph: Morally vile, intellectually void, badly made and interminably dull. First-look review from #TIFF26
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The Last Photograph – first-look review
The passion project that Zack Snyder has spent the last two decades developing is an unforgivably dreadful, turgid slog.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 15/09/2026
Sterling Point is less scary than Widow’s Bay, and far less fraught than Furious, but each of these shows is not pretending to be something they aren’t, and viewers are responding accordingly. Maybe we want TV to feel like TV after all, writes @frazbelina.bsky.social
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Widow’s Bay, Furious, and Sterling Point: How TV fell in love with…
With TV’s biggest night of the year just behind us, we take a look at a new crop of series embracing the medium for what it does best.
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Emma Fraser @frazbelina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is great to see TV shows like Widow's Bay, Sterling Point, and Furious that actually feel like they are embracing the medium they are made for. So, it is a real treat that I got to dig into how these shows are doing this for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/small-screen...
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Widow’s Bay, Furious, and Sterling Point: How TV fell in love with…
With TV’s biggest night of the year just behind us, we take a look at a new crop of series embracing the medium for what it does best.
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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/09/2026
Wrapped Venice competition with one of its great surprises, Marco Bechis’ tight dictatorship thriller BACK TO BUENOS AIRES. Here’s me for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/venice-film-...
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Back to Buenos Aires – first-look review
Marcho Bechis' tense drama documents a man's return to a country where he endured brutal treatment in order to testify against the perpatrators.
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Matt Thrift @matt-thrift.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Have the fondest memories of time spent with Jeremy. What were meant to be short chats at his Hanway St, and later Notting Hill, offices ended up lasting hours, as he walked and talked me through his vast archives. Boy, could that man tell a story. A warm, generous titan, and a devastating loss.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 12/09/2026
Sad to hear about the death of maverick British super producer Jeremy Thomas, responsible for The Shout, The Last Emperor, Naked Lunch, Crash, Sexy Beast, The Dreamers, Thirteen Assassins, Only Lovers Left Alive and many more auteur-driven classics. RIP
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
Nicolas Winding Refn, live and in person, will be joining us THIS EVENING for a preview of his neon-lit headfuck, Her Private Hell, at Curzon Soho in London. Last few tickets remaining, grab 'em while you can! www.curzon.com/films/her-pr...
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
Naza continues Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s difficult work of confronting the horrors committed by their government and people, and the weight of that process is never clearer than in Abraham’s heavy pauses before posing questions such as: ​“Why did you kill them?” writes @rafiews.com
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Naza – first-look review
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s damning and stark documentary outlines the horrifying extent of civilian deaths in Palestine through interviews with…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
Manuel Wetscher’s intimate and personal film does an excellent job at placing us within close proximity of its two young leads, creating a sense of being given access to their secret world – @hannahstrong.co.uk on from Eklipse #Venezia83
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Eklipse – first-look review
Drawing from personal experience, Manuel Wetscher's coming-of-age drama about two boys reckoning with a world-changing secret is a little too restrained…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
The tensions between Japanese and American occupants of Okinawa inform Xavier Tera’s feature debut, where teenagers make the most of the summer sprawl. The Color of the Sun – first-look review #Venezia83
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The Color of the Sun – first-look review
A sullen teenager living in Okinawa finds his life upended by the arrival of a boy raised on a nearby American airbase in Xavier Tera's feature debut.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
Riddled with flimsy humour and by-the-book clichés, Place to Be never builds enough momentum to even take off, let alone land with any real resonance, writes Yasmine Kandil #Venezia83
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Place to Be – first-look review
Despite the presence of the excellent Ellen Burstyn, Kornél Mundruczó’s avian-based road movie never takes flight.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
French director Stéphane Brizé returns to the genre where he’s found most success and acclaim: the social drama @marshallshaffer.bsky.social reviews A Good Little Soldier #Venezia83
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A Good Little Soldier – first-look review
Alba Rohrwacher is a HR manager struggling to manage people and performance in Stéphane Brizé's effective workplace drama.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
Andrei Kutsila reaches far beyond Belarus and further still beyond a reckoning with what democracy can cost, writes Sonya Vseliubska Letters from the Silenced Country – first-look review #Venezia83
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Letters from the Silenced Country – first-look review
Belarusian director Andrei Kutsila turns the correspondence of the imprisoned and exiled into a formally inventive, morally unflinching account of life…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 10/09/2026
🎬 Join us at Curzon Soho tomorrow at 9pm for a preview screening of HER PRIVATE HELL (+extended live intro by Nicolas Winding Refn) 🎟️ Tickets: www.curzon.com/ticketing/se...
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
Anna Paquin’s brooding performance as a teen growing up in a period of grief and heavily-enforced American patriotism is a perfect microcosm of the nation’s tragedy and accountability. Girlhood in Post‑9/​11 Cinema: Margaret at 15
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Girlhood in Post-9/11 Cinema: Margaret at 15
Anna Paquin's brooding performance as a teen growing up in a period of grief and heavily-enforced American patriotism is a perfect microcosm of the…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 10/09/2026
🎬 Join us at Curzon Soho tomorrow at 9pm for a preview screening of HER PRIVATE HELL (+extended live intro by Nicolas Winding Refn) 🎟️ Tickets: www.curzon.com/ticketing/se...
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Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In 1979, a PG version of Saturday Night Fever hit theaters. @leighsinger.bsky.social dug up this oddity for @lwlies.com and compares it to the original, more mature version. A strong video essay on the power of (re-)editing.
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The alternate Saturday Night Fever you (probably) haven’t seen
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 04/09/2026
LWLies Presents an early preview screening of our latest cover film, HER PRIVATE HELL, next Friday 9.15pm at Curzon Soho... ...with NICOLAS WINDING REFN in attendance! Snag your tickets via @curzon.com: www.curzon.com/films/her-pr...
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Jonah Jeng @jonahjeng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ahead of the new RESIDENT EVIL, I revisited the original live-action series for @lwlies.com, examining how it crafts a fascinating posthuman vision by incorporating a video game logic into its narrative and filmmaking. lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
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The Posthumanism of Resident Evil
The original live-action series made mutation and posthuman possibility its playground, and Milla Jovovich a queer icon of reinvention. Ahead of Zach…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 09/09/2026
Luca Guadagnino serves as an enthusiastic and determined shepherd of Bernardo Bertolucci’s legacy with a mammoth seven-hour documentary examination of contemporary cinema culture through Bertolucci’s lens – @hannahstrong.co.uk on Joie De Vivre from #Venezia83
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Joie De Vivre – first-look review
Luca Guadagnino's mammoth reflection on the life and legacy of Bernardo Bertolucci is a sprawling acquired taste, but has much to say about the shape of…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 09/09/2026
Barbara Kopple’s non-fiction filmmaking feels more akin to music itself, writes @marshallshaffer.bsky.social Union Town – first-look review from #Venezia83
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Union Town – first-look review
50 years later, the world had changed very little in the latest documentary about labor organizing from legendary Barbara Kopple.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 09/09/2026
Alina Șerban’s rough-hewn feature shows real potential and is a brilliant showcase for its young lead, Denisa Farcaș – @balanescumiriam.bsky.social's review of I Matter from #Venezia83
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I Matter – first-look review
A teenage girl comes up against the harsh realities of Romanian social care in Alina Șerban's exuberant drama.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 09/09/2026
It feels ironic that Casey Affleck’s gothic horror, built upon the notion of inviting one in, is so relentlessly intent on shutting us out, writes @rafiews.com Company – first-look review from #Venezia83
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Company – first-look review
Casey Affleck's sombre gothic horror is over laboured despite an intriguing premise.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 09/09/2026
Bunker​’s true source of intrigue boils down to one simple thing: Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem married on screen – t’s like De Niro and Pacino sharing a scene for the first time in film history but more niche. – Luke Hicks on Florian Zeller’s latest from #Venezia83
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Bunker – first-look review
Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz play a couple divided by a mysterious job offer in Florian Zeller's overwrought thriller.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 08/09/2026
A sequel to Practical Magic may sound like a nice idea but, in practice, this is a chore. Practical Magic 2 review: lwlies.com/reviews/prac...
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Practical Magic 2 review – lacking in magic in just about every sense
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as the Owens sisters in an uninspired sequel that conjures little magic.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 08/09/2026
Ahead of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil remake, @jonahjeng.bsky.social revisits the original live-action series to explore its most enduring qualities
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The Posthumanism of Resident Evil
The original live-action series made mutation and posthuman possibility its playground, and Milla Jovovich a queer icon of reinvention. Ahead of Zach…
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