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Not sure why this was Best Picture - a film about a gay black drug dealer's coming of age in Miami. Bits were very poignant and well d...

I was rather disappointed with this. The book was great - it explained complex things and unfamiliar institutions without being patronizin...

A thoughtful, moving film about adoption and lost children. A little Indian boy gets lost from his family, swept in to an orphanage, and t...

Surprisingly gentle film about the life and work of Ken Loach - lots of talking heads from actors and others, scenes of the director at wo...

  The Red Flag Kasatchok Down by the Riverside Power in a Union African Market Place     La Cucaracha   Solidarity Forever   Bandier...

Everybody has been so down on this that I was quite surprised by how much it touched me. I think sometimes how a film affects the viewer s...

I've been watching this on an off for a while, without quite getting round to finishing it. I finally watched the last half on a train...

Rewatched this, partly to get some interior decoration ideas for our new flat, which I'd like to Mexi-theme. I'd quite enjoyed it ...

In some ways this is a stereotypical jazz musician film. Like the recent Miles film, it's set during a period in which Chet Baker had ...

A disappointing, plodding, boring film about a subject that ought to have been disturbing and too-engaging. It wasn’t particularly long, ...

A sad film about bereavement, responsibility, masculinity, alcohol. A bloke  (well, an American bloke, so he's probably a guy...but a ...

Interesting poignant Japanese film about food, nature, loneliness...a young man operates a bean cake shop for someone else. An older woman...

When a friend told me about this film I confused it with ' The Commune ', another Scandinavian film about communal living. This ...

  Excellent critical account about key developments in cities - technology, development, governance - from a great author. There were a fe...

The first thing to say is that I am astonished that this film has a 12 rating. Although the subject matter (boy discovers hidden world wit...

A nice enough Iran-set film about a young man who wants to dance even though it's banned by the Islamic state. He sets up a secret und...

An enjoyable comedy-drama, with some rom-com elements. It's set in the world of voice-over artists, who naturally have their own hiera...

French film about a Zairean doctor who qualifies in Lille, doesn't want to go home to become a personal physician to Mobutu and so tak...

Well, it wasn't so bad - almost a decent film, with a plot and acting and so on. There were some cute references to others in the seri...

Enjoyed this much more than I expected to. There's only one joke, really - the juxtaposition of the genteel and emotionally restrained...