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Review - The Smashing Machine

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is an unusually conventional sports biopic that pulls some punches without much surprise. Johnson’s lead performance is safe and commendable but never a knockout.

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Review - Eternity

A rom-com that prides itself in a high-concept execution of a fantastical world beyond our lives; Eternity is a surefire crowd-pleaser where love, life and loss all collide in a world in transit.

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Review - Hamnet

Thunderous in emotion yet ghostly in touch, Hamnet transforms the tragedy of loss into a haunting meditation on survival, life and love. Anchored by Jesse Buckley’s career defining performance; Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet is a gutting portrait of grief that will leave you breathless.

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Review - Train Dreams

Train Dreams is a melancholy memory that is bound to devastate and encapsulate you. Joel Edgerton’s quiet silence echoes across generations; a story about the longing for a simple life at the turn of the century. Every frame will haunt you long after its final scene.

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Review - The Ballad of a Small Player

A fantastical sweat-soaked fantasy across the neon lights of Macau; Edward Berger’s newest feature is a foray into gambling hell - a misfire of epic proportions, an exponentially boring character study that wastes a great performance from Colin Farrell.

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Review - Christy

David Michod’s Christy is a sports biopic that straddles the safety of structure than reinvent the conventions. Christy Martin’s inspiring and tumultus story marks a bold new step in Sydney Sweeney’s career.

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Review - The End

Joshua Oppenheimer's post apocalyptic musical, THE END is a dense emotional journey to the centre of the earth. A misfire of ambition and talent that feels more than a whisper than a showstopper.

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Review - The Brutalist

Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is a generational towering Prometheus; a 215 minute journey across continents and decades of a man searching for a new beginning. Centered around an empathic and devastating performance by Adrien Brody; The Brutalist earns every second of its intimdating, visceral journey.

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