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Re-birth of a Rainbow Nation?
8/10
Based on a novel by South African playwright Athol Fugard, ‘Tsotsi‘ a slickly-produced, powerful drama set in a giant township outside Johannesburg. Presley Chweneyagae stars as the eponymous Tsotsi, a baby-faced assassin forced into surrogate fatherhood by the baby he unwittingly kidnaps during a bungled car jacking. Protecting the baby [...]

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Things to do In Bruges when you’re dead
7/10
Theatre director Martin McDonagh’s debut film is a memorably off-beat crime film based around two hitmen (played by Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson), sequestered to the Belgian city of Bruges by their foul-mouthed cockney mob boss (Ralph Fiennes). The first two thirds of ‘In Bruges‘ are loose and [...]

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Before the devil knows you’ve made a terrible film
5/10
Why Sydney Lumet doesn’t get the recognition that the likes of Coppola and Scorcese receive for their 1970s output is a mystery. ‘Serpico‘ (1973), ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ (1975) and ‘Network’ (1976) all feature among lists of the key films in that decade yet somehow Lumet managed [...]

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