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POST TENEBRAS LUX (Carlos Reygadas, 2012)

Starring: Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalie Acevedo, Willebaldo Torres You may like this if you liked: To the Wonder (Terence Malick, 2012), The Banishment (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2007), Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004) Translating as Latin for “light after darkness”, Post Tenebras Lux … Continue reading

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WHAT RICHARD DID (Lenny Abrahamson, 2012)

Starring: Jack Reynor, Roisin Murphy, Sam Keeley You may like this if you liked: Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011), Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine, 2011), This is England (Shane Meadows, 2006) Dublin teenager Richard Karlsen seems to lead a perfect and privileged life. … Continue reading

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BOXING DAY (Bernard Rose, 2012)

Starring: Danny Huston, Mathew Jacobs, Lisa Enos You may like this if you liked: Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002), The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999), Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012) Based on Master and Man, which was a short … Continue reading

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THE SWEENEY (Nick Love, 2012)

Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Drew, Hayley Atwell You may like this if you liked: Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton, 2012), Outlaw (Nick Love, 2007), Harry Brown (Daniel Barber, 2009) Lead by old school style DI Jack Reegan (Winstone), the flying squad … Continue reading

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BEYOND THE HILLS (Cristian Mungiu, 2012)

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Starring: Cosmina Stratan, Christina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta You may like this if you liked: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2008), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011), Biutiful (Alejandro Gonźalez Iñárritu, 2010) Inspired … Continue reading

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SINISTER (Scott Derrickson, 2012)

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson You may like this if you liked: Insidious (James Wan, 2010), The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007), The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002) After a series of commercial failures, true crime writer Ellison … Continue reading

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RUBY SPARKS (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2012)

Starring: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening You may like this if you liked: Stranger than Fiction (Marc Forster, 2006), The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry, 2006), Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006) Calvin Weir-Fields (Dano) is … Continue reading

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SAVAGES (Oliver Stone, 2012)

Starring: Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Taylor – Johnson You may like this if you liked: U Turn (Oliver Stone, 1997), The Informers (Gregor Jordan, 2008), Layer Cake (Mathew Vaughan, 2004) On a sun drenched beach in California best friends … Continue reading

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LORE (Cate Shortland, 2012)

Starring: Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, Kai-Peter Malina You may like this if you liked: Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985), The Downfall of Berlin: Anonyma (Max Färberböck, 2008), The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff) Lore is adapted from one of the … Continue reading

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ZERO DARK THIRTY (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)

Starring: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong You may like this if you liked: The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008), Rendition (Gavin Hood, 2007), Green Zone (Paul Greengrass, 2010) Zero Dark Thirty is a chronicle of the ten years between … Continue reading

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