Talent Willem Dafoe

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The Legend of Ochi review – well-crafted but tame family adventure

A shy young girl embarks on a mission to save a mystical creature in Isaiah Saxon's throwback to the days of Amblin greatness.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Poor Things review – Lanthimos at his most playful and comedic

Emma Stone gives a career-defining performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ opulent provocation about the human body as a nexus for pleasure and pain.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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The Northman

Robert Eggers assembles an intrepid team for the epic tale of a wronged Viking prince’s quest for vengeance.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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River

Not even Willem Dafoe’s narration can save this meandering documentary with tired colonial overtones.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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The Lighthouse

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe take a brutal tumble into the abyss in Robert Eggers’ monochrome nightmare.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Opus Zero

Willem Dafoe plays a composer who goes looking for answers in Mexico in this slow and meandering drama.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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At Eternity’s Gate

Despite a fine turn from Willem Dafoe, Julian Schnabel’s Vincent van Gogh biopic is a messy affair.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Mountain

This visually arresting documentary asks why we climb, but doesn’t offer any satisfactory answers.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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The Florida Project

There’s magic in every single frame of writer/director Sean Baker’s spellbinding latest.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Murder on the Orient Express

The potency of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel shines through the glossy, high-camp screen adaptation.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Dog Eat Dog

Paul Schrader gets silly with a ’90s-inspired crime caper which prizes stoopid fun above all else.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect

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