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Review Encore Re-released in the UK: Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire

Commentary Flashback 4 August 2011 Sometimes the perfect antidote to Hollywood summer blockbusters is a smaller double dose of smart and/or heartfelt filmmaking

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Feature Film Review After becoming the victim of a telephone fraud scam, 93-year-old Thelma Post is determined to get back what is hers

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Documentary Film Review An actor revisits the past to explore how being labeled Brats back in the 1980s affected the lives and careers of him and his colleagues

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Feature Film Review A cemetery reunion for Lucas and Edith, ten years after a shared tragedy, reveals the emotional Poison of lingering grief and resentment

Feature Film Review Rootless young Nana, Haofeng and Xiao cling to one another, hoping their closeness will be like The Breaking Ice in a frozen landscape

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Feature Film Review On a car journey across America, 18-year-old TJ learns that What We Find on the Road can change us forever

Documentary Film Review Best friends and band mates Omar and Cedric tell each other, If This Ever Gets Weird, we can always just stop

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Feature Film Review Corporate turnaround artist Hideki is sent to reorganize a ranch in Montana where his unlikely lot will be to become something of a Tokyo Cowboy

Short Film Review Success at her job leads to some Remote Strutting by software developer Mia, but what will happen when WFH ends?

Short Film Review An innovative idea for door-to-door in-house ironing transforms Tony into The Iron Man

Short Film Review A tragic and fiery end is only the beginning of the afterlife of Emily and Mary, The Wilde Sisters

Feature Film Review The Hypnosis session that Vera has with her therapist leads to unexpected consequences when she and her partner André go to pitch their new app

Review Encore Now on DVD in the US: Shane Atkinson’s LaRoy, Texas

Review Encore 25th anniversary re-release in the UK: The Wachowski siblings’ The Matrix

Review Encore 10th anniversary re-release in the UK: Matthew Warchus’s Pride

Review Encore Criterion DVD release in the US: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall

Review Encore 20th anniversary re-release in the UK: Alfonso Cuarón’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Review Encore Playing for one week in Seattle: Zia Mohajerjasbi’s Know Your Place

Feature Film Review Rose Gooding, an Irishwoman living in a West Sussex town, is arrested and accused of writing Wicked Little Letters to her next-door neighbor, Edith Swan

Feature Film Review Will a woman’s fate in a woodland outside Paris come down to mere chance, or what the French call un Coup de Chance?

Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 3,025