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Reviews November 2022
01/11/2022 | ReformA repressive Islamist regime
No BearsDirected by Jafar PanahiCertificate 12a, 106 minutesReleased 11 November
The Iranian director Jafar Panahi (whose son Panar made the excellent road movie Hit the Road) has been in trouble with the country’s repressive Islamist regime … Read More
Reviews October 2022
03/10/2022 | ReformTesting conventions
Doctor Who Am IDirected by Matthew Jacobs & Vanessa YuilleCertificate 12a, 80 minutesReleased in cinemas 27 October andDVD & Digital 28 November
What is a church, and why do people attend it? This is a documentary about Doctor … Read More
Reviews September 2022
20/09/2022 | ReformHiding from deportation
Where Is Anne FrankDirected by Ari FolmanCertificate PG, 99 minutesReleased 12 August
Amsterdam, about a year from now. Inside the Anne Frank House, Anne’s imaginary pen-friend Kitty (voiced by Ruby Stokes) materialises out of the ink from … Read More
Reviews July/August 2022
24/06/2022 | ReformTransformed by an atrocity
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In TimeDirected by Robert B. Weide, Dan ArgottCertificate 15Released 22 July (cinemas and digital platforms)
The late Kurt Vonnegut claims that after touching a tree trunk he saw the bombing of Dresden before … 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
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