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Hector

In Films by Sabina Smitham

Peter Mullan is warm and weather-beaten as Hector, a grizzled homeless man on his way from Scotland to London for Christmas. For Mullan fans, it’s a rare opportunity to see …

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The Intern

In Films by Sabina Smitham

The Intern wants you to know that it’s OK for women to want it all. Women! It yells. You can run your own start up and have a perfect family …

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The Wolfpack

In Films by Sabina Smitham

Reviewing Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack should be an uncomplicated business: it’s spectacular, and everyone needs to see it. Haunting and funny and moving and sad and uplifting: name your adjective, …

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The Wonders

In Films by Sabina Smitham

Watching The Wonders teaches you a lot about making honey. Long and intricate – very long, very intricate – sequences give a step by step guide to this rural industry, …

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Mr Holmes

In Films by Sabina Smitham

Obviously, everyone loves a sexy Sherlock. But there’s no trace of one here, which is terribly worrying: will anyone under 50 go to see Mr Holmes? Bill Condon’s take on …

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Pelo Malo

In Films by Sabina Smitham

Pelo Malo teases out themes of identity and belonging through Junior, a 9-year-old boy with an unusual passion, and his mother whose life of violence and poverty means she can’t …

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Margaret

In Films by Sabina Smitham

Margaret finished shooting in 2005. And, just six years of re-edits, studio-disputes and ugly legal battles later, it exploded into movie theatres up and down the UK. Well, actually, it exploded …