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The Intern
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The Intern is ‘reality’ for those who prefer life through filters. Like the promise of an internship in a flashy but morally vacuous company, this is a position best avoided. -
Macbeth
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Someone must have spoken the name Macbeth too many times on set, because this film is a tragedy not just in the dramatic sense. -
The Martian
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The score is subtle, the writing is intelligent and the casting is fresh. -
My Own Pet Radio: Goodlum
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...a solo project taking inspiration from the last six years of demos, beats, samples and unfinished songs that have been swimming around in his head, and turning them into a beautiful debut album. -
Ivanov
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Eamon Flack's radical adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 19th Century play Ivanov is a strange combination of Russian melancholy and modern satirical farce. -
Julia Holter: Have You in My Wilderness
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...this record feels like the first time Holter is letting us get close to her songs, pick them up, feel them, and even unfold them. -
Cut Snake
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Bubbling under all the violence and machismo – all of which we’ve seen before – is a fascinating story begging to be told. -
Battles: La Di Da Di
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...the rubbery melodies and morphing rhythms of the music itself sound like an extra-terrestrial version of rock music, learned from a transmission of a mangled Black Sabbath tape beamed across the galaxy. -
Empress Of: Me
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This album, recorded during a long stay in a small rural town in Mexico, combines gritty rhythms with jagged synthesizer textures for a stunning collision of the physical and the cerebral. -
Gold Class: It's You
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The magnetism of Gold Class’s live show doesn’t always come across on their debut album It’s You, but it is still a strong collection of post-punk influenced rock. -
Life
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Despite its rather flecked moments of insight, Life is a beautifully expressed portrayal of a star on the brink of supernova, as seen through the lens of history. -
Beach House: Depression Cherry
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They continue to follow their muse and conjure their gorgeous, glacial ballads. -
A Walk in the Woods
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The movie adaptation of Bill Bryson’s 1998 travel memoir, A Walk in the Woods, feels like a bit more of an uneven amble. -
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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It’s a tear jerker but a clever one. There are strange details that weave into the tapestry and make it less of a Fault in our Stars and more of a Scott Pilgrim vs The World. -
Destroyer: Poison Season
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Imagine if, in 1975, David Bowie decided to collaborate with Van Dyke Parks and John Updike on a rock opera. -
The Gift
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In his directorial debut, acclaimed screenwriter Joel Edgerton has made a taut, brainy mystery story that is more than worthy of the standard set by his past successes. -
The Paper Kites: twelvefour
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The late night vibe of the record crackles with the energy of computer screens in dark rooms, or headlights cutting through the night. -
Royal Headache: High
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On High the band is back and in full swing, ready to tear down society’s walls with their unique sound. -
Southpaw
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Southpaw is a confident and un-flashy movie that knows what it wants to do and does it well. -
Irrational Man
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Woody Allen invokes both Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Alfred Hitchock in his latest, the surprising and ambitious Irrational Man.