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Nick Bradshaw

@nickkinocritic.bsky.social
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Film critic/journalist

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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
One Battle After Another has won Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards. Read the @nickkinocritic.bsky.social’s review of the film here. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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One Battle After Another review: Revolutionary road
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as an off-the-grid freedom fighter searching for his vanished teenage daughter in an absurdist action thriller that thunders along with Mad Max-like propulsion.
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Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
As the #BBC lurches from crisis to crisis, I took a look at its mantra of impartiality – what it means, where it came from, who calls it, and how you stand up to those who would game it. Or, as it turns out, not…
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The Explainer: What Is British Impartiality (And Can It Survive)?
How the BBC elevated impartiality to its “very essence” amid documentary cancellations and regulatory pressures, and whether this embattled value can survive partisan challenges
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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
“Claude Barras’s follow-up to his justly celebrated 2016 debut My Life as a Courgette shares with that film a commitment to placing its big-eyed, brightly painted clay-model innocents in dark corners of the real world” @nickkinocritic.bsky.social reviews Savages. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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Savages review: tree no evil
An 11-year-old rescues an orangutan orphaned by loggers in Claude Barras’s unsurprising but vibrantly designed follow-up to 2016 hit My Life as a Courgette.
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Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
For @documentary.org, I took the measure of last month's @sheffdocfest.bsky.social, its platforming of deplatformed political filmmakers, visions of Palestine and more from Ukraine, and four great finds (including my favourites, A Simple Soldier and The Gas Station Attendant)
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Sheffield DocFest 2025: Tender Shoots
“Always balance, everything in balance,” intones Raul Niño Zambrano, all smiles and relaxed on the last morning of his fourth year as creative director of Sheffield DocFest. It’s an aspirational mantr...
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Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Meanwhile this year's CPH:DOX awards are out cphdox.dk/cphdox-2025-... and the jury is right – Deming Chen's Always is exquisite, a tone poem on youth, wonder and sensitivity, as I wrote for this year's Ekko critics' panel: www.ekkofilm.dk/stjernebarom...
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CPH:DOX 2025 announces award winners - CPH:DOX
The juries have deliberated and the winners of the international competitions at CPH:DOX 2025 have been announced this evening at the festival’s Award Show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The internationa...
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Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Here's one I caught a year ago, at CPH:DOX 2024. It looked good then (www.ekkofilm.dk/stjernebarom...) and it grows on you – www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other review
New York photographer Joel Meyerowitz and artist Maggie Barrett take stock of their 30-year marriage, contemplating mortality, equality and how to move forward together, in this richly artful document...
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