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The Incident (2011)

The Incident (2011)
Rating: ★★★½
Mar 20, 2018Trapped in an Asylum for the Criminally Insane During a Powercut
From an early script by S. Craig Zahler, this is an incredibly brutal and harrowing work about a group of cooks trapped inside an asylum for the criminally insane during a power cut
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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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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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Camille Rewinds (2012)

Camille Rewinds (2012)
Rating: ★★
Apr 12, 2013Time Travel/Divorcee Revisists Her Youth
This French film is an uncredited copy of Peggy Sue Got Married wherein director/star Noemie Lvovsky a dissatisfied divorcee who is propelled back to her high school graduating year and gets to relive her life choices
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Upside Down (2012)

Upside Down (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 28, 2013Two Worlds with Gravity in Opposing Directions
The frustration of a film that has a scientifically nonsensical premise - two planets where gravity is oriented in opposing directions - that is also surprisingly imaginatively made. This creates some genuinely amazing visuals and designs of the two worlds and showing the people on them interacting
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Mood Indigo (2013)

Mood Indigo (2013)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 15, 2014Wackily Surreal Romance
After the disastrous misstep of The Green Hornet, Michel Gondry returns to the surreal whimsy of The Science of Sleep. A film where Gondry delights in scene after scene of visual nonsense and serving up all the appealingly capricious silliness he can muster – creativity for creativity's sake alone
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Paddington (2014)

Paddington (2014)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 17, 2015Talking Bear
From the awful slapstick-heavy trailer, the prospects for this seem dismal – less Paddington Bear than a reprise of the live-action Yogi Bear. The finished result confounds expectation and the story of a small unassuming bear at large in the world comes full of considerable charm
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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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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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Muse (2017)

Muse (2017)
Rating: ★★
May 18, 2018Man Haunted by Supernatural Muses
Jaume Balaguero has become one of the most promising of modern Spanish genre directors, principally on the basis of the [Rec] films. However, this supernatural mystery that resembles one of Dario Argento's Three Mothers films fails to quite come together
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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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Last Journey of Paul W.R. (2020)

Last Journey of Paul W.R. (2020)
Rating: ★
Feb 20, 2025Earth Endangered by an Oncoming Moon
French film about Earth endangered by an oncoming moon and how only one man can save the world. This seemed it might be something culty - before the mind-bogglingly bizarre science becomes apparent
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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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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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Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)

Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 11, 2026Homage to the 1960s Spy Movie
An extraordinarily stylised homage to the 1960s spy movie, which strips everything down to a series of provocative, stylised high-end fashion poses. The visuals in the film are quite extraordinary
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