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Two Prosecutors
(Zwei Staatsanwälte)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 26 2026
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(Zwei Staatsanwälte)
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Director – Sergei Loznitsa – 2025 – France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania – Cert. 12A – 118m ****1/2 Stalinist Russia, 1937. A young, idealistic prosecutor takes up the case of an unjustly imprisoned, political prisoner – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th A prison yard. Impassive guards. Inmates on scaffolding work at plastering the […]

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Kontinental ’25 (Kontinental ’25)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 31 2025
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Director – Radu Jude – 2025 – Romania – Cert. 15 – 109m **** Although operating within the bounds of the law, a bailiff is smitten with guilt and remorse for the effect of her job on a ‘client’– out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 31st Carrying large bags, he scavenges at the bases of tree trunks in […]

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the G

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 21 2024
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Director – Karl R. Hearne – 2023 – Canada – Cert. 15 – 106m ***** A 72-year-old conned out of her home and assets calls up someone from her past to exact revenge – gripping thriller is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, June 21st After a brief opening in which two men […]

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Compartment
No. 6
(Hytti Nro 6)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 15 2021
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No. 6
(Hytti Nro 6)
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Director – Juho Kuosmanen – 2021 – Finland – Cert. 15 – 107m ***** A student taking a long, sleeper train from Moscow to the Arctic finds herself sharing a compartment with a drunken male slob – out in cinemas on Friday, April 8th Finnish archaeology student Laura (Seidi Haarla) lives in Moscow with her […]

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The Courier

Director – Dominic Cooke – 2020 – UK – Cert. 12a – 112m ***** The real life story of businessman Greville Wynne who smuggled secrets out of Moscow and helped avert the Cuban missile crisis – out on premium digital Monday, September 27th The early 1960s. The cold war. High up Kremlin bureaucrat Oleg Penkovsky […]

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Justine

Director – Jamie Patterson – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 82m ***1/2 LGBQT romance. Fiercely intelligent, young woman living in Brighton with no prospects falls for a student teacher – out exclusively on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, February 5th A young woman with a bruised lip soaks in the bath. Her landlord […]