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Animal Collective: Painting With
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With broader strokes and big blocks of colour, Animal Collective have made a record that is more immediate than their previous work, but that seems to have misplaced something essential to their sound. -
Trumbo
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Crooked from hours hunched over a typewriter (or working in the bath) as a screenwriter, Cranston vividly portrays an erudite genius with a penchant for troublemaking. -
Boy & Bear Hordern Pavilion
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It was there first crack at the Hordern Pavilion. The crowd danced and cheered. -
Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is indeed a rare example of translating book to film that deserves accolades. Five stars. -
Jack of Hearts
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You cannot fail to enjoy this show. It entertains as it unpicks the seams of our delusions of love, ambition and honour that leave us with something beautifully woven as a play. -
DIIV: Is the Is Are
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There is an undercurrent of melancholy running through the entirety of Is the Is Are, which finds frontman Zachary Cole Smith confronting his own addiction. -
Porches: Pool
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Much of the dreamy pop on Pool plays like party music for the shy, the introverted and the alienated. For people who want to socialise, but are terrified at the thought. -
Eleanor Friedberger: New View
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It’s a warm and cosy recollection of time gone by. It feels like we’re sitting on a couch and flicking through a photo album with her. -
RÜFÜS: Bloom
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Surprisingly for dance music, and from a band who has made their name playing to enormous festival crowds, Bloom feels intimate and heartfelt, like a mix CD received from a friend. -
The Hateful Eight
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There’s a thrill to the gleeful way he breaks the rules of cinema, by knowingly using metatextual references, anachronisms, and fascinatingly oblique structures to tell the story that he wants to tell, and that only he could. -
David Bowie: Blackstar
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At an age when other artists of his stature are either releasing pointless duets albums or doggedly re-recording the songs that made their name, David Bowie is refusing to lie down. -
The Revenant
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As a technical achievement, The Revenant is often breathtaking, but there is a lopsided aspect to its storytelling and ultimately its execution. -
Carol
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Composed as painstakingly as a beautiful piece of music, and played with every ounce of feeling its players could muster, Carol is one of the finest romantic dramas to grace the screen in years. -
Young Fathers at Oxford Art Factory
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When the three were side-by-side at the front of the stage, such was their chemistry as performers that they were like a mythical Hydra, or Cerberus; three heads attached to one body. -
Hinds: Leave Me Alone
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It’s “lo-fi,” but never lazy, and “D.I.Y.” while sounding like a wholly communal effort, which is pretty special. -
They've Already Won
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Through lengthy political discourse, deadpan acting, sound poetry of 21st Century internet buzzwords, an excerpt from one of the most popular Australian plays of the past few years, and even lyrical dance, Harriet and Pierce get wet, sweaty and silly. -
The Good Doctor
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Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor is a collection of short stories inspired by Chekhov that are held together by Cappelletta’s writer narrator. -
In the Heart of the Sea
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Ron Howard’s latest film as director, In the Heart of the Sea, tells the story of the whaleship Essex and its unfortunate fate following its encounter with an enormous white whale in 1820. -
Creed
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Rocky Balboa is back except now he’s a bit older, a bit slower and taking more of a back seat in Creed. -
SOPHIE: Product
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Product is a brief collection of UK-based producer and rising electronic star SOPHIE’s most mind-bending and innovative works.