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Review: Loveless

Review: Loveless

Zvyagintsev uses a crumbling marriage as a metaphor for the country as a whole
Review: Pitch Perfect 3

Review: Pitch Perfect 3

The third in the “acapella” series seems like a fitting conclusion, but too often seems a little off-key
Review: The Greatest Showman

Review: The Greatest Showman

It’s a showcase of humanity; a circus

The Village Angels: The everyday heroes of Manchester’s Village star in new documentary

Mancunian charity front national initiative to make nightlife more LGBT inclusive in new film

Review: Beach Rats

An anxious, dream-like story, Eliza Hittman’s tale of male sexuality is a unique depication of LGBT issues

Review: Steve McQueen’s ode to Ashes

Acclaimed director Steve McQueen uses video installation to create a haunting elegy for the violent and needless deaths of young men

Review: Battle of the Sexes

Not exactly the grand slam you would expect in a movie starring Carell and Stone

Double-up feature: Jewish Film Festival 2017

A snippet of what was on at the Jewish Film Festival this year

Review: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Director Paul McGuilian measures the balance between the serious, the comedic, and the emotional in this tender love story defying stigma and taboo

Review: Félicité

An exceptional portrayal of beautiful people and places within a country facing such harships

Remembering Partition with New North South: Neha Choksi

Manchester Art Gallery delves deep through the medium of South Asian film with Neha Choksi

Review: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

“35 dollars for a salmon. You get the salmon to blow you for that price?”

Review: The Snowman

Michael Fassbender stars in the big screen adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s bestseller

Review: The Reagan Show

“Take that Mr Gorbachev”; a charming look at Ronald Reagan’s persona through White House archival footage

Review: Sara (2015)

Director Herman Yau dropped by at HomeMcr for a very interesting Q&A following the screening of Sara

Review: Home Again

Despite the forward thinking subject-matter, Hallie Meyers-Shyer fails to reach expectations with Home Again

Review: Daphne

Emily Beecham shines above the rest in this neurotic indie drama

Review: Goodbye Christopher Robin

Simon Curtis plays it safe with this A.A. Milne biopic

Review: Flatliners

Perhaps the characters in Flatliners shouldn’t have come back to life

Review: Borg vs McEnroe

The greatest game of tennis ever played becomes another boring day at the office in this underachieving film