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A Glitch in the Matrix

Censor

CODA

Coming Home in the Dark

El Planeta

How It Ends

Human Factors

In the Earth

In the Same Breath

Judas and the Black Messiah

Knocking

Luzzu

Ma Belle, My Beauty

Marvellous and the Black Hole

Mass

Mayday

Night of the Kings

One for the Road

Passing

Prime Time

R#J

Sabaya

Searchers

Strawberry Mansion

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Superior

The Blazing World

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet

The Pink Cloud

The World to Come

Together Together

Violation

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

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The World to Come

Chilly lesbian drama is stifled by its literary trappings

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Judas and the Black Messiah

Furious Black Panther drama balances politics and entertainment to great effect

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Ma Belle, My Beauty

Unusual angle on the messy heartache of love

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Together Together

Non-romantic romcom follows a wannabee single dad and his surrogate

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Searchers

Sensitive look at the search for love online

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Marvellous and the Black Hole

Charming indie flick about growing up and getting over loss

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Night of the Kings

Ivorian ode to the power of storytelling

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Violation

Twisted revenge thriller is graphic but not gratuitous

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Superior

Natty twin flick nails comedy but bungles finale

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We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

Subversive study of lonely soul seeking comfort in darker corners of the internet

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The Blazing World

Nightmarish vision of what overcoming personal grief looks like

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Mayday

Imaginative but unsatisfying parable about recovering from trauma

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The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet

Softly-spoken parable about the virtues of rolling with the punches

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Coming Home in the Dark

Sparse, violent and nihilistic thriller is a perfect midnight movie

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Passing

Luscious period racial drama with the seductive sense of a fable

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El Planeta

Quirky black comedy carries barbed undercurrent of social commentary

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A Glitch in the Matrix

Philosphical documentary posits interesting ideas about the nature of reality

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R#J

Screenlife adaptation supplements Shakespeare with txt spk

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Prime Time

Hyperintense thriller from Poland gets blood pumping

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Sabaya

Harrowing documentary exposes plight of Kurdish Yazidi women

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Knocking

Blistering central performance drives mental health thriller

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Mass

Punishing drama sees two couples attempt to discuss the unspeakable

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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

An unabashed celebration of perhaps the most important TV show ever made

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Strawberry Mansion

Gorgeous, imaginative and playful deep dive into the realm of dreams

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In the Earth

Lysergic folk horror is flawed but hugely entertaining

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How It Ends

Slight but charming lockdown comedy imagines a cheery Apocalypse

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Luzzu

Sensitive story of the plight of a struggling Maltese fisherman

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The Pink Cloud

Intriguing thought experiment film bears uncanny resemblance to real-life events

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Human Factors

Carefully crafted portrait of a disintegrating family

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Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Astonishing concert film hauls a black cultural touchstone from obscurity

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Censor

’80s-set horror that fetishises the period as much as the films that inspired it

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One for the Road

Thai buddy movie undone by inconsistent approach

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In the Same Breath

Alarming documentary exposes the lethal consequences of state censorship during COVID-19

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CODA

Tender, heartfelt drama moored by a compelling depiction of a deaf family

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Sundance Round Up Part 4

The final round up of other films from the Sundance Film Festival 2021

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Sundance Round Up Part 3

A further instalment of quick-fire reviews from Sundance ’21

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Sundance Round Up Part 2

Some more quick-capsule reviews from the Sundance Festival

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Sundance Round Up

A round up of other films from Sundance Festival 2021