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# *Il Postino (The Postman)* — 9/10 *Il Postino* is a small, gentle film about an enormous idea: **that encountering poetry can change the way a person experiences the world—and, in doing so, change the person himself.** It is romantic without being syrupy, funny without breaking its melancholy spell, and deeply moving without ever forcing the audience to feel. Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo Troisi) begins the film almost without a language for him... - Full Review

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Rated 16 Aug 2026

There is something wonderfully unfussy about *The Taking of Pelham One Two Three*. Four men hijack a New York subway car, demand a million dollars, give the city an hour to deliver it, and threaten to start killing passengers if the money arrives late. That's essentially the entire premise. Yet Joseph Sargent turns it into one of the sharpest, funniest and most effortlessly entertaining American thrillers of the 1970s. What makes *Pelham* so... - Full Review

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L'une chante, l'autre pas (1977) - Rated 14 Aug 2026

There’s something wonderfully effortless about *One Sings, the Other Doesn’t*. Agnès Varda makes a film about abortion, motherhood, marriage, independence and the women’s movement without allowing any of those subjects to overwhelm the two people at its centre. Before anything else, this is a film about Pauline and Suzanne, and about a friendship that survives years of separation, marriages, children, grief and completely different ways... - Full Review

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The Odyssey (2026) - Rated 13 Aug 2026

Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey* is the rare blockbuster that genuinely earns the word **epic**. Not simply because of its enormous scale, its IMAX landscapes, monsters, battles and staggering ensemble, but because Nolan understands that Homer’s story is ultimately about something far more intimate: a man trying to find his way home after war has fundamentally changed who he is. What surprised me most is how perfectly the material fits... - Full Review

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The Invite (2026) - Rated 11 Aug 2026

Olivia Wilde’s *The Invite* is an enjoyable but uneven chamber comedy that gets a lot of mileage out of its excellent cast. Seth Rogen is easily the funniest of the four and works surprisingly well in the more dramatic moments, while Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz bring exactly the right mixture of smugness, mystery and charm. There are some genuinely sharp exchanges and the central idea of two very different marriages colliding over one increasingly uncomfortable dinner gives the actors ple

90 _65%

Happy as Lazzaro (2018) - Rated 02 Aug 2026

**9/10** *Happy as Lazzaro* feels like an old folk tale somehow telling us everything about the modern world. Alice Rohrwacher begins with something close to Italian neorealism: an isolated community of tobacco farmers trapped in an almost feudal system, exploited by the landowners and quietly exploiting the one person even lower than themselves. Then, halfway through, the film makes a strange and beautiful leap into myth, and suddenly the... - Full Review

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A Poet (2025) - Rated 31 Jul 2026

**9/10** The romantic idea of the poet is that he suffers because the world cannot understand him. *A Poet* proposes a less flattering possibility: perhaps the world understands him perfectly well, and is simply tired of lending him money. Oscar Restrepo was once a promising Colombian writer. Several decades later, he remains devoted not so much to writing poetry as to remembering that he once wrote it. He is unemployed, alcoholic, financially... - Full Review

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Je, tu, il, elle (1974) - Rated 31 Jul 2026

**9/10** *Je, tu, il, elle* feels like Chantal Akerman stripping cinema back to its bare essentials until all that's left is time, bodies, silence, and longing. It's a film that asks for patience rather than attention, and if you surrender to its rhythm, it becomes quietly devastating. The opening half-hour is one of the most honest portrayals of heartbreak I've ever seen. Julie's compulsive rituals—rewriting the same letter, spooning sugar... - Full Review