Contributor David Jenkins

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Festival

Interview: Cate Blanchett and Matty Sidle

by David Jenkins

With already countless strings to her acting bow, Cate Blanchett adds yet one more by starring in Matty Sidle’s experimental comic short, Bozo Over Roses.
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Festival

Guo Run – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The pain and confusion of miscarriage is presented with bracing clarity in Li Dongmei’s impressive character study.
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Festival

First Person Plural – first-look review

by David Jenkins

A bourgeois couple experience the noxious effects of a vaccine in this gorgeous, surreal study of corrupted minds and bodies.
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Festival

Vitrival – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This absorbing and carefully-crafted chronicle of a quaint Belgian village crumbling to pieces is 2025 breakout.
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In Heaven Everything Is Fine

Eraserhead and the Lady in the Radiator

by David Jenkins

In our tribute to the works and worlds of David Lynch, David Jenkins reflects on his most spiritual film.
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Review

By the Stream review – burrows under your skin

by David Jenkins

Korean director Hong Sang-soo returns with this playful study of creation, performance and why films don’t need audiences to be successful.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Here review – a forgiving and open mind is required for this one

by David Jenkins

This conceptually-intriguing folly sees Robert Zemeckis reteaming with Tom Hanks for an effects-driven everyman tale that never gets off the ground.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Emmanuelle review – anticlimactic and unerotic

by David Jenkins

Audrey Diwan’s cold take on the infamous erotic softcore French novel leaves a bit too much to be desired.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Architecton review – taps into the short-order nature of modern construction

by David Jenkins

Viktor Kossakovsky takes us on a journey through the concrete and stone that makes up much of our modern world.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Girl With The Needle review – politically pertinent Gothic horror story

by David Jenkins

Magnus von Horn brings subtlety and empathy to the serial killer genre in this extraordinary true-life yarn.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect

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