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Nick James

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The Bikeriders (2023) 79% EDIT “The one member of the gang, Johnny says, that all the others want to be, remains a cool-looking enigma of absent personality, a void at the film’s heart.” – Sight & Sound Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Vermiglio (2024) 93% EDIT “Director Maura Delpero shows phenomenal restraint in her beautifully observed drama about a poor remote alpine community, set during World War II. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% EDIT “Given Torres’s brilliant, understated performance and Salles’s deep understanding of what he’s trying to achieve, the film would stand as a shining, thoroughly convincing exception.” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “F1 loves blurring after-images, retina-stabbing lights, decal numbers, logos, stats, on-screen charts, night skies full of endless fireworks and the polished gleam of stationary state-of-the-art racing cars. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Below the Clouds (2025) 94% EDIT “It has a sepulchral melancholy to it, gifted by Rosi’s own beautiful, high contrast, black-and-white cinematography, and his fondness for the city lit up at night. It is even a touch funereal.” – Sight & Sound Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% EDIT “Amongst this sombre psychological backdrop, the frantic antics of Casper and his uncles to amuse and annoy are neither sufficiently sinister not cheering enough to stand out.” – Sight & Sound Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% EDIT “Hard Boiled, a film directed by John Woo, could have been [likened to] a James Bond movie, so standard is its premise, yet it is executed with such visual panache that it becomes clear that Woo enjoys a dramatically different licence to kill.” – Observer (UK) Jul 27, 2023 Full Review The Score (2021) 53% 2/5 EDIT “Electro-folk song interludes offer images about rivers and such that might better suit another film – one that doesn’t feel as if it’s waiting for darkness so that it can finally become a noir.” – Observer (UK) Sep 11, 2022 Full Review Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) 86% 3/5 EDIT “By the end, I was fond of every single brat, dead or alive.” – Observer (UK) Sep 11, 2022 Full Review See How They Run (2022) 75% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a fine, if mild, escapist hoot.” – Observer (UK) Sep 11, 2022 Full Review Both Sides of the Blade (2021) 84% 3/5 EDIT “Denis’s usual panache with mood and imagery doesn’t mitigate... awkwardness, nor does it alter the feeling that, although both leads individually portray impassioned suffering brilliantly, there’s little chemistry between them.” – Observer (UK) Sep 10, 2022 Full Review Azor (2021) 98% EDIT “Restraint and alarm are the film's keynotes, with a hint of wry black comedy in every exchange.” – Sight & Sound Nov 13, 2021 Full Review About Endlessness (2019) 95% EDIT “The quiet audacity with which Andersson has discarded the elements of his style that people appreciate the most - the absurdity and the payoffs - is not only admirable but more effective in bringing an inclusive feel to his cinema.” – Sight & Sound Sep 5, 2019 Full Review Pain and Glory (2019) 96% EDIT “It's an exquisitely put together film, beautifully designed, much of which has lingered in my memory, but I wonder how much interest and pleasure someone unfamiliar with Almodóvar's previous work could derive from it.” – Sight & Sound Aug 24, 2019 Full Review Mr. Jones (2019) 86% 6 EDIT “A tad procedural and even more melodramatic but the urgent power of what we see helps one to ignore the mechanism.” – Sight & Sound Feb 13, 2019 Full Review 22 July (2018) 80% 5 EDIT “There is a technical facility to the film that's almost too good, that zaps past too much like its part of the 24-hour news cycle.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2018 Full Review Cold War (2018) 92% EDIT “This film fizzes with a devotional energy and political relevance.” – Sight & Sound May 11, 2018 Full Review Everybody Knows (2018) 78% 5 EDIT “With a cast this starry and talented the play of revelation and counter-revelation that is reckoned to be Farhadi's metier could hardly fail to entertain, even if the film rather shuns its environment and landscape in favour of somewhat stagey interiors.” – Sight & Sound May 10, 2018 Full Review Unsane (2018) 80% EDIT “An adroit, if occasionally glib study of American paranoia and of some reasonable justifications for feeling paranoid.” – Sight & Sound Feb 21, 2018 Full Review Isle of Dogs (2018) 90% EDIT “A winningly affectionate and delightfully detailed dystopian fable.” – Sight & Sound Feb 16, 2018 Full Review Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 90% EDIT “It's Rockwell who's the real revelation here, winning the sympathy that only the best of Calibans capture with a performance of an astonishing range of awkwardnesses. I loved it.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2017 Full Review The Shape of Water (2017) 92% EDIT “Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is that big romantic all-out imaginative coup (with a sly political undercurrent) that so many of us have been waiting for from the director.” – Sight & Sound Sep 4, 2017 Full Review Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 93% EDIT “Moonrise Kingdom makes a winning appeal to the precious joys of the pre-teen imagination circa 1965.” – Sight & Sound Aug 30, 2017 Full Review Amour (2012) 93% EDIT “Scene after scene is an exquisite masterclass of astonishing acting.” – Sight & Sound Aug 29, 2017 Full Review The Hunt (2012) 83% EDIT “The Hunt is a tremendously gripping melodrama.” – Sight & Sound Aug 29, 2017 Full Review
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