1% marks the latest chapter in the subgenre commonly known as ‘ultra-violent Australian crime movie’.
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Loveless
Andrei Zvyagintsev recently told The Guardian that ‘living in Russia is like being in a minefield’. If his latest film is any reflection of reality, then it’s safe to say that he was putting it mildly.
Read More Let the Corpses Tan
Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani are arguably the most controversial duo in horror. Famed for their mysterious, enigmatic forays into giallo – Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears – they’re the masters of sellable obscurity. Many have interpreted these pieces as hollow imitations of far more genuine works, or otherwise as meaningless…
Read More Foxtrot
What is Foxtrot? Structurally, this thing is a marvel: Foxtrot does the foxtrot, as main character Joseph explains to his captive audience. 3 steps, and you return to the same place – or, rather, 3 very different acts bookended by the same scene. A lot of the surprises and finesse of the movie come from…
Read More My Friend Dahmer
Ross Lynch makes a promising first step into more mature cinematic territory with an astute portrayal of what makes a murderer.
Read More Battle of the Sexes
Emma Stone thrills in this exciting biopic of women’s tennis and the still all-too-familiar misogyny that surrounds it.
Read More Raindance 25: Our Reflections
This year the team at The Panoptic were delighted to attend the 25th Raindance Film Festival, celebrating indie films from across the world. Now that it has ended, we wanted to share our reflections from the festival from everyone who was part of the reviewing team.
Read More Thoroughbreds
A misanthropic trip into the dark heart of suburbia, Corey Finley’s glossy Thoroughbreds hits all the right notes to craft an esoteric, seductively sinister symphony that shocks and pleases in equal measure.
Read More 25th Raindance Winners Announced
Winners announced for 25th Raindance Film Festival in London The iconic independent festival announced its winners in a glittering award ceremony at The Mayfair Hotel on 29th September.
Read More Maya Dardel
Not even a powerful performance by Lena Olin can save this film from its suffocating snobbery and unjustified ageist elitism.
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