Contributor Leila Latif

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Review

The Little Mermaid

by Leila Latif

Halle Bailey’s charms can’t distract from all the bizarre choices at the heart of this underwhelming live-action remake.

2
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Interview

Alice Diop: ‘A fictional space could reveal my point of view’

by Leila Latif

The filmmaker behind the remarkable Saint Omer explains how her own experience informed the creation of her intimate legal drama.
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Interview

Don Cheadle: ‘Filmmaking is a very risk-averse business’

by Leila Latif

The veteran actor, musician and director speaks about his role in Noah Baumbach's White Noise, and what his long tenure in Hollywood has taught him about the world.
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Review

Call Jane

by Leila Latif

Chicago's Underground Abortion Network and a housewife's unwanted pregnancy lie at the centre of Phyllis Nagy's directorial debut.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Blonde

by Leila Latif

Andrew Dominik’s warts-and-all portrait of tragic Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe is as surreal as it is sad.

5
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Festival

Blonde – first-look review

by Leila Latif

Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ behemoth Marilyn Monroe novel is a surreal, anarchic take on celebrity and womanhood.
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Festival

Dead for a Dollar – first-look review

by Leila Latif

There should be a warrant out for someone's arrest after this dire western from Walter Hill.
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Festival

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – first-look review

by Leila Latif

Laura Poitras documents US artist Nan Goldin's attempts to expose the Sackler family for their role in the US opioid crisis, but with mixed results.
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Review

Orphan: First Kill

by Leila Latif

Malevolent conwoman Esther gets a backstory in this strangely overdue and unintentionally funny prequel to the 2009 hit.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Leila Latif

A social outcast with a love of nature is accused of murder in Olivia Newman’s pretty but vacant adaptation of Delia Owens’ best-selling novel.

2
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect

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