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Kirikou and the Men and Women (2012)

Kirikou and the Men and Women (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 5, 2017Animation/African Folk Tales
The third of Michel Ocelot's Kirikou films, delightful tales about the ingenuity and plain-speaking wisdom of a young boy winning out over adult pomposity and foolishness. Animated with a simplicity that is magical
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The Tall Man (2012)

The Tall Man (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Nov 25, 2012Child Abducting Boogeymen/Conceptual Reversal Twister
Pascal Laugier returns with this fascinating effort about a small town subject to child abductions by a possible boogieman. A film that is as blatantly manipulative as it is ingenious in its way-out twists and turns where everything we assume is going on at the outset is eventually turned completely on its head
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Wrong (2012)

Wrong (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 16, 2014Gonzo Surrealism
Quentin Dupieux's follow-up to the hilariously culty Rubber, an absurdist film about a man setting out to find his missing dog. You keep expecting something as mind-bendingly hilarious as Rubber but this is more of a mild amusement in the David Lynch-ian deadpan surrealist vein
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Brick Mansions (2014)

Brick Mansions (2014)
Rating: ★★
May 2, 2014Near Future Action/Walled-Off Ghetto
The English-language remake of the Luc Besson-produced Banlieue 13. The electrifying parkour scenes of the original now seem routine and the film's social set-up so thinly sketched as to be negligible as science-fiction
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Beauty and the Beast (2014)

Beauty and the Beast (2014)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 18, 2015Fairy-Tale
Adaptation of the fairytale that takes place in an exquisitely dreamy sumptuousness – a stunningly designed, costumed and photographed world that has a genuine magic. However, the motion-capture animated Beast looks far too much like a CGI effect
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Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Aug 8, 2015Aardman Animation
Probably the loudest I have laughed and the most unabashed fun I have had in a theatre all year. The most 100% successful of all of Aardman's films to date at capturing the quirky and uniquely homesy style of their short films, this comes with gags packed in every single frame
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April and the Extraordinary World (2015)

April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 3, 2015Animation/Steampunk Alternate History Adventure
Animated film that takes place in a Steampunk alternate history. This brims over with an extraordinary degree of visual invention from the amazingly detailed vistas of the world to a script tossing in quirky twists and wacky inventions
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The Little Prince (2015)

The Little Prince (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 20, 2016Animation/Young Boy Alien Visitor Fable
On its own terms, a frequently lovely film. The director made a big thing of how much he loved the Saint-Exupery original but makes a completely different story with only occasional Little Prince interludes
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The Warriors Gate (2016)

The Warriors Gate (2016)
Rating: ★
Oct 2, 2017Videogamer Transported to Ancient China
Luc Besson written/produced effort where a videogamer kid is transported to Ancient China. A blatant copy of The Forbidden Kingdom that manages to be fundamentally implausible on every level and one of the worst attempts to pander to the Chinese box-office
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What Happened to Monday (2017)

What Happened to Monday (2017)
Rating: ★★
Sep 3, 2017Overpopulated Dystopian Future
From Tommy Wirkola, director of Dead Snow and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a film where Noomi Rapace plays seven identical sisters hiding their existence in an overpopulated dystopian future, A film where neither the scenario nor the central characters end up convincing in any way
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The Son of Bigfoot (2017)

The Son of Bigfoot (2017)
Rating: ★★
Jun 10, 2021Animation/Family with Bigfoot Genetics
The title is misleading as this features no Bigfeet but is an animated film about a family that sprouts all-over body hair and big feet. This quickly falls into the usual formulaic inanities of the modern animated film
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The Night Eats the World (2018)

The Night Eats the World (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 15, 2019French Zombie Film
The zombie genre has become creatively overused and exhausted in recent years but this French entry plays with an appealing originality, sort of like a low-key version of Dawn of the Dead where a man builds a Parisian apartment building into his own paradise
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The Room (2019)

The Room (2019)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 21, 2019House With a Room That Answers Wishes
Not to be confused with Tommy Wiseau's bad movie classic. This comes from Christian Volckman who made an impressive debut a few years ago with the animated Cyberpunk film Renaissance. Moving to live-action, this creates an air of unspeakable dread as a couple buy a house that has a hidden room that can manifest anything they wish for
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The Pod Generation (2023)

The Pod Generation (2023)
Rating: ★★
Dec 15, 2025Future Where Babies Can Be Born Externally
SF film that feels like it should be an episode of Black Mirror. Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor are a couple who sign up for a process where a baby can be gestated externally inside an egg
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Survive (2024)

Survive (2024)
Rating: ★★
Nov 30, 2025Catastrophic Reversal of the Earth’s Poles
A French catastrophe film where the Earth’s poles abruptly reverse, transforming what was ocean into a desert. A survival film that is based on a premise that is fundamentally scientifically absurd
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Flow (2024)

Flow (2024)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 28, 2024Animation/Animals on a Journey
A delightful animated film from Latvia made entirely without dialogue, following a group of animals fleeing as their territory is flooded. The winner for my top film of 2024.
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