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Review: You Hurt My Feelings
21 Jun 2023You Hurt My Feelings asks what do people want to hear: the truth or a comforting white lie? Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said, The Last Duel), it stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)…
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Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
14 Jun 2023Dan Slevin reviews the long awaited sequel to the animated smash hit superhero film from 2018.
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Review: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
14 Jun 2023Dan Slevin recommends this understated and moving British tale, which stars Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton.
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Review: The Tank
14 Jun 2023Dan Slevin reviews a Kiwi-made horror film about a young family who inherits an old house only to discover it's already occupied... by an amphibious creature who doesn't take kindly to their arrival.
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Hollywood: The Oral History
7 Jun 2023Simon Morris talks to Sam Wasson, one of the authors of the massive Hollywood: The Oral History, in which the story of the movie capital of the world is told by the people who made them.
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Review: The Little Mermaid
31 May 2023The Little Mermaid is the latest live-action remake of a Disney animated classic. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem and Halle Bailey as Ariel. Directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago, Into the Woods)…
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Review: Armageddon Time
31 May 2023Armageddon Time is the story of a young boy in 1980s New York confronted with some harsh realities behind the American Dream. Starring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong and Sir Anthony Hopkins, it's…
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Review: Bank Of Dave
31 May 2023Bank of Dave is the real-life story of a man who defied the establishment to create the first new British bank in 150 years. Starring Rory Kinnear (No Time to Die), Joel Fry (Yesterday) and rock band…
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At The Movies - The Mother
24 May 2023Jennifer Lopez plays a homicidal parent protecting her daughter in this new thriller from Kiwi director Niki Caro.
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Review: Fast X
24 May 2023Fast X is the tenth, if not quite the final, episode of Vin Diesel's petrol-head epic. Co-starring Rita Moreno, Jason Statham, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron and, as the film's villain, a showboating…
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At The Movies - A Good Person
24 May 2023Can someone who did bad things still be a good person? Writer and director Zach Braff explores this question in a new film starring Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman.
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Review: Hypnotic
17 May 2023Hypnotic is the new film by low-budget thriller maestro Robert Rodriguez. Ben Affleck stars as a burnt-out cop on the search for a bank robber who uses hypnotism to get strangers to do his dirty work.
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Review: Close
17 May 2023Close is the Cannes Film Festival winner, and Oscar nominee about two best friends whose first year at high school causes friction between them. Written and directed by Lukas Dhont (Girl).
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Review: Jos
10 May 2023Jos is an affectionate film about a half-forgotten West Coast photographer, Czech-born Joseph Divis.
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At The Movies - Guardians of the Galaxy
10 May 2023Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is, apparently, the final of the franchise, starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and the voices of Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel. Directed by James Gunn before he crosses over…
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Review: Cairo Conspiracy
10 May 2023Cairo Conspiracy is a thriller set in Al-Azhar university, the centre of Sunni Islam. An innocent young student finds himself being used as a spy to manipulate the election of a new leader. Directed…
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Review: Polite Society
3 May 2023Polite society is the first feature from writer/director Nida Manzoor (We are Lady Parts). Budding teenage stunt-woman Ria sets out to save her sister from an unsatisfactory marriage, but can she…
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Review: Marlowe
3 May 2023Marlowe sees the Irish team of director Neil Jordan and star Liam Neeson attempt to revive the film noir world of private eye Philip Marlowe. Also starring Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange.
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At the Movies: Paper Spiders
26 Apr 2023Indie queen Lili Taylor and up-and-coming American-Kiwi actor Stephania LaVie Owen play mother and daughter in the American art film Paper Spiders.
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At the Movies: Evil Dead Rise
26 Apr 2023A popular horror-comedy franchise returns with this gory new film shot in Auckland.
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At the Movies: Huda's Salon
26 Apr 2023A Palestinian hairdresser blackmails her clients into spying for the Israeli Secret Service in this fraught thriller.
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Movie review - Allelujah
19 Apr 2023Allelujah is a star-studded adaptation of Alan Bennett's play about a Yorkshire hospital in danger of being closed down by market forces.
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Movie review - Shackleton
19 Apr 2023Australian adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces English explorer Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 attempt to cross Antarctica in Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival.
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Movie review - Mafia Mamma
19 Apr 2023Toni Collette and Monica Belucci pair up for a comedic tale about a suburban housewife who inherits an Italian crime family.
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