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Reviews July/August 2022
24/06/2022 | ReformTransformed by an atrocity
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In TimeDirected by Robert B. Weide, Dan ArgottCertificate tbc, 127 minutesReleased 22 July (cinemas and digital platforms)
The late Kurt Vonnegut claims that after touching a tree trunk he saw the bombing of … Read More
Reviews June 2022
28/05/2022 | ReformHelping a loved one to die
Everything Went FineDirected by François OzonCertificate 15, 113 minutesReleased 17 June
France. Two daughters, Emmanuèle and Pascale Bernheim (Sophie Marceau and Géraldine Pailhas), visit their 85-year-old father André Bernheim (André Dussollier) as he recovers … Read More
Reviews May 2022
27/04/2022 | ReformGlum heroes
BenedictionDirected by Terence DaviesCertificate 12a, 137 minutesReleased 20 May
Films about poets are few; however, the director Terence Davies has now made two in a row as different as their historical subjects. The earlier A Quiet Passion (Reform, … Read More
Reviews April 2022
28/03/2022 | ReformSins of the flesh
BenedettaDirected by Paul VerhoevenCertificate 18, 131 minutesReleased 15 April
The Dutch director Paul Verhoeven revels in controversy. In Hollywood, he pushed the boundaries of taste with the violent Robocop in 1987 and the sexually explicit Basic … Read More
Reviews March 2022
25/02/2022 | Reform 1Romantic self-doubt
CyranoDirected by Joe WrightCertificate 12a, 124 minutesReleased 25 February
Edmond Rostand’s 1897 romantic play Cyrano de Bergerac concerns a man who, because of his long nose, considers himself too ugly to tell the girl of his dreams and … Read More
Reviews February 2022
28/01/2022 | ReformOn being a refugee
FleeDirected by Jonas Poher RasmussenCertificate 15, 83 minutesReleased 11 February
There have been animated films about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan before, including The Breadwinner (reviewed in Reform, June 2018), but Flee is different. It … Read More
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