Simran Hans

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Drive-Away Dolls: a lesbian road trip comedy that feels authentic to the 1990s but stuck there, too

Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s self-consciously trashy road movie has some laughs, but at times the jokes just feel dated.

By Simran Hans

Drive-Away Dolls: a lesbian road trip comedy that feels authentic to the 1990s but stuck there, too
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Femme: a modern erotic thriller with looks to kill

By Simran Hans

Femme: a modern erotic thriller with looks to kill
Reviews

Past Lives second look review: Celine Song explores the power of the unsaid

By Simran Hans

Past Lives second look review: Celine Song explores the power of the unsaid
Features

Lost and Found: The Heartbreak Kid

By Simran Hans

Lost and Found: The Heartbreak Kid
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. offers a witty adaptation of Judy Blume’s beloved teen novel

By Simran Hans

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. offers a witty adaptation of Judy Blume’s beloved teen novel
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Neptune Frost: an exuberant, deeply political afrofuturist musical

By Simran Hans

Neptune Frost: an exuberant, deeply political afrofuturist musical
What to watch at LFF

Chee$e: a playful, inventive Caribbean stoner comedy

By Simran Hans

Chee$e: a playful, inventive Caribbean stoner comedy
Reviews

Elvis: a frenetic jukebox musical that’s heavy on style and light on substance

By Simran Hans

Elvis: a frenetic jukebox musical that’s heavy on style and light on substance
Reviews

A-ha: the Movie finds Norway’s synth-pop legends still haunted by the fame dream

By Simran Hans

A-ha: the Movie finds Norway’s synth-pop legends still haunted by the fame dream
Features

“We gave them too much power”: how Rocks became a gem by giving its young cast license to shine

By Simran Hans

“We gave them too much power”: how Rocks became a gem by giving its young cast license to shine
Interviews

Jordan Peele on Us: “I knew I was gonna forge new ground in the pantheon of doppelganger tales”

By Simran Hans

Jordan Peele on Us: “I knew I was gonna forge new ground in the pantheon of doppelganger tales”
News

Vanishing directors: five of the best films at IDFA 2019

By Simran Hans

Vanishing directors: five of the best films at IDFA 2019
Reviews

The Souvenir first look: Joanna Hogg’s potent self-portrait as a young artist

By Simran Hans

The Souvenir first look: Joanna Hogg’s potent self-portrait as a young artist
Reviews

Honey Boy first look: Shia LaBeouf unearths his own childhood trauma

By Simran Hans

Honey Boy first look: Shia LaBeouf unearths his own childhood trauma
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High Life first look: Claire Denis floats Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson in mortal space

By Simran Hans

High Life first look: Claire Denis floats Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson in mortal space
Reviews

Widows first look: Steve McQueen steals the heist genre

By Simran Hans

Widows first look: Steve McQueen steals the heist genre
10 great

10 great erotic thrillers

By Simran Hans

10 great erotic thrillers
News

Podcast: Six highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018

By Kelli Weston, Sophie Brown and others

Podcast: Six highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
News

Breaking the silence: Hot Docs 2018 addresses the #MeToo moment

By Simran Hans

Breaking the silence: Hot Docs 2018 addresses the #MeToo moment
Reviews

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot review: Gus Van Sant charts John Callahan’s winding road to redemption

By Simran Hans

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot review: Gus Van Sant charts John Callahan’s winding road to redemption
Reviews

Grass review: Hong Sangsoo explores the art of (writing about) conversation

By Simran Hans

Grass review: Hong Sangsoo explores the art of (writing about) conversation
Reviews

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. review: troubles of a pop tiger

By Simran Hans

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. review: troubles of a pop tiger
News

The best of Berlinale 2018 – the awards and our critics’ picks

By Geoff Andrew, Patrick Gamble and others

The best of Berlinale 2018 – the awards and our critics’ picks
Reviews

Moonlight first-look review: masculinity, differently

By Simran Hans

Moonlight first-look review: masculinity, differently
Features

Screening it for themselves: young DIY British film programmers

By Simran Hans

Screening it for themselves: young DIY British film programmers
Reviews

A United Kingdom – first look

By Simran Hans

A United Kingdom – first look
Features

Black Film, British Cinema 2017: from representation to radicalism

By Simran Hans

Black Film, British Cinema 2017: from representation to radicalism
News

DIY punk: Flatpack 2014

By Simran Hans

DIY punk: Flatpack 2014
Reviews

Manchester by the Sea review: on the waves of grief

By Simran Hans

Manchester by the Sea review: on the waves of grief
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