
Tara Judah
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2 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Claire I. Monk |Adam Nayman |Tara Judah |Jessica Kiang
When Paul Verhoeven’s divisive Vegas melodrama first arrived in UK cinemas, critic Claire Monk was unconvinced by its relentless ‘tits-in-your-face’ voyeurism and flawed ideas about women’s sexual ‘power’. 9 June 2025As is clear from the plot summary alone, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas’s first collaboration since Basic Instinct (1992) is driven by preoccupations other than psychological and narrative credibility.
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2 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Jessica Kiang Festivals |Jessica Kiang |Adam Nayman |Tara Judah
After the birth of her baby, Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) experiences a psychological rupture that devours her life, her relationship with husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) and her own identity, in Lynne Ramsay’s ferociously maximalist psychodrama. 5 June 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalHarrowing, beautiful and very possibly cursed, Lynne Ramsay’s magnificently unlovable adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel begins as it refuses to continue, in quiet.
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3 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Tara Judah |Adam Nayman |Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold
The Encampments uses the natural momentum of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University in New York as its structural spine. What began with 50 students pitching tents in the campus’s designated protest zone soon became a national and international movement of students occupying campus lawns, demanding university administrations divest from Israel and weapons manufacturing.
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3 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman |Tara Judah |Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold
“Fight like a girl,” the heroine of Ballerina is instructed. Apparently, taken to its logical conclusion (to the extent that any movie set in the John Wick universe can be said to have a logical conclusion) this imperative means duelling with flamethrowers and using ice skates like bayonets, impressively inventive bits of carnage in a movie whose body count is in triple digits before the end of the first act.
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2 months ago |
bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Nick Davis |Adam Nayman |Tara Judah
Jared Hess’s A Minecraft Movie is a big (and not just in budget), brash and brazen family film – so don’t by fooled by the apparent modesty of its title’s indefinite article. It is the middle word that does the heavy lifting in the first feature film to be based on Mojang Studios’ Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time.
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