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A Real Pain
Eisenberg's script is brought to life by an electric performance from Kieran Culkin, who adds depth to his own actorly niche as the charming, hyperactive and exhaustingly chaotic Benji.
Stephen Troussé
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Nickel Boys
Adaptation feels too tame a word for what Ross is up to in this astonishing film. What he accomplishes here is on the level of the magic that Charlie Parker worked on the 12-bar blues
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Suede: the insatiable ones
The mundane reality of addiction, it turns out, is not Byronic wraiths in Ghormenghast mansions but a pie-eyed Anderson plonking atonally on a cheap synth, vainly trying to compose Head Music.