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Nosferatu Review
When The VVitch came out ten years ago, horror aficionados felt as excited as a virgin on prom night: their date was Robert Eggers, the...
Jack Salvadori
Dec 26, 20242 min read
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2024 Best Films - Top 10
As we bid adieu to 2024, let’s take a moment to spotlight the titles that delivered the goods in the last 365 cinematic days. 2024 has...
Jack Salvadori
Dec 25, 20249 min read
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Coming Soon in 2025: Movies You’ll Forget by 2026
Ready or not, 2025 is lurking around the corner, poised to become known as the Year of the Great Film Famine . The silver screen is...
Jack Salvadori
Nov 11, 20249 min read
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Venice #81 - Peacock
The Critic's Week, or Settimana della Critica as the natives say, has always been quite a gamble at the Venice Film Festival. The...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 8, 20241 min read
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Venice #81 - April
With April , Dea Kulumbegashvili brings to the Lido the biggest surprise of the 2024 Venice Film Festival, shocking and dividing the...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 7, 20242 min read
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Venice #81 - Joker: Folie à Deux
Back in 2019, director Todd Philipps reassured that Joker was always pitched as one movie, not set up to have any sequels, and in his...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 5, 20242 min read
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Venice #81- Queer
Trying to capture an author’s literary style into moving pictures is a challenging task. When that author is no less than William S....
Jack Salvadori
Sep 4, 20242 min read
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Venice #81 - The Room Next Door
After two short films in English, Pedro Almodóvar delivers his first feature not in his native Spanish with The Room Next Door . And he...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 3, 20242 min read
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Venice #81 - The Brutalist
I thought the days when films looked great were gone forever. You know, when they actually looked like films, with that special magical...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 2, 20242 min read
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Venice #81 - Maria
There is no doubt that Chilean director Pablo Larraín is the master of biopics. By developing his own formula, he specialised in...
Jack Salvadori
Aug 30, 20242 min read
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Venice #81 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Disclaimer: in the following review I’ll be careful not to say "Beetlejuice" three times, in the slightest chance he comes back and they...
Jack Salvadori
Aug 30, 20242 min read
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Raiders of the Lost Art
Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato is the cinephile’s ultimate oasis “No, this time I won’t go”. After months of pondering, rationality struck...
Jack Salvadori
Jun 29, 20246 min read
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Cannes #77 - "Grand Tour" Review
It’s the journey, not the destination. Few films aim to lift the audience to a different dimension. Even fewer actually succeed in such a...
Jack Salvadori
May 24, 20243 min read
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Cannes #77 - "Anora" Review
Sean Baker’s downbeat vision of America is back with his latest film, starring Mikey Madison as a colourful stripper, Anora, chasing her...
Jack Salvadori
May 22, 20242 min read
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Cannes #77 - "The Shrouds" Review
What is Vincent Cassel doing in a David Cronenberg costume? Perhaps The Shrouds is so personal to the cult director that its protagonist,...
Jack Salvadori
May 21, 20242 min read
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Cannes #77 - "Emilia Perez" Review
Emilia Perez is a film like no other. French auteur Jacques Audiard goes crazy, and brings to the screen a pop opera that never loses its...
Jack Salvadori
May 18, 20242 min read
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Cannes #77 - "Kinds of Kindness" Review
After the uber-success of Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos delivers his second film of the year, Kinds of Kindness. In this minor work, the...
Jack Salvadori
May 18, 20242 min read
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Cannes #77 - "Megalopolis" Review
I believed in America. And I believed in New Hollywood, helmed by Francis Ford Coppola. Thus, it particularly saddens me that...
Jack Salvadori
May 16, 20243 min read
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Cannes #77 - "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" Review
George Miller takes us back to his iconic dystopian, post-apocalyptic Australian Wasteland in a reverse journey to discover the origins...
Jack Salvadori
May 15, 20242 min read
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Cannes #77 - "The Second Act" Review
Cannes-cel culture. An unsettling grey and rainy weather anticipated the lukewarm reception of the 76th edition of the most prestigious...
Jack Salvadori
May 15, 20242 min read
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