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Citizen Bio

The story told is the stuff of outrageous sci-fi, at least to those of us without doctorates in biology or medicine.

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The Witches

Between the relish with which Rock approaches his task and Spencer’s commanding presence, things get off to a rollicking start.

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Come Play

If the monster movie is only reasonably effective in frightening its audience, it is at least refreshingly free of objectionable material, including gore.

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2 Hearts

The primary cast of the film takes what could be another predictable tear-jerker and infuses fresh perspectives.

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Baby Done

This is a pregnancy film. There is plenty of comedy. And there are serious themes. In fact, quite a pleasing combination.

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Honest Thief

A film for 2020 audiences, especially older audiences looking for some kind of easy entertainment in difficult times.

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Savage

The emphasis is not so much on gang aggression towards outsiders but strong fighting for turf, for the formation of gangs, forming the Savages, trying to find one’s place in this marginalised world.

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Hope Gap

This film is essentially about what 'not to do', as well as 'what to do', to protect a relationship that is fracturing badly.

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Spree

For a younger demographic, Kurt’s world is approximating to a real world, the world of social media, the world of being preoccupied with what is on a screen rather than in reality.

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Miss Juneteenth

It is a film that projects African-American pride at a time when positive antidotes are urgently needed to the media’s hunger to show violence and aggression.

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Sputnik

A Russian perspective on popular space and monster films of recent decades, tension and drama, some grim moments, but all presented very seriously.

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On the Rocks

A spirited comedy that delves wittily into the relationships between husband and wife, and between father and daughter.

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Two Crowns

I was very moved that the filmmakers included the dark expressionist paintings of a Holocaust survivor.

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Enola Holmes

It shows that there are alternative ways to resolve conflict and redress wrongs other than violence.

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On the Rocks

As written and directed by Sofia Coppola, it sometimes feels as though meager material is being stretched out to fit feature length.

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