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William Stottor
Tomatometer-approved critic
I am a London-based freelance film critic, who writes for publications including Loud & Clear, Movie Marker and Filmhounds.
Movies reviews only
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Wayfinder (2022) |
In his first feature film Wayfinder, British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong hypnotises with his epic, beautiful and challenging account of England. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Mondocane (2021) |
Drawing on franchises such as Mad Max, Mondocane ’s impressive worldbuilding and engaging story stand out even amongst its lack of originality and innovation. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Vortex (2021) |
A haunting rumination on old age and death, but lacks the narrative and emotional consistency needed to make it fully engaging. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Small Body (2021) |
A delicately realised portrait of a mother on a quest to find peace for both herself and her stillborn baby. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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The Novice (2021) |
A breathless and harrowing journey through physical and psychological self-torture. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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The Divide (2021) |
The Divide is an intense snapshot of one night in a French A&E department on the night of a yellow vests protest, juggling political and societal themes. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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A Distant Place (2020) |
Visually ravishing and exquisitely detailed, A Distant Place observes a deep, beautiful love knocked down by society and its horrific bigotry. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Girl Picture (2022) |
Young love flourishes in Alli Haapasalo’s charming Girls Girls Girls, a coming-of-age drama with a compelling narrative and strong emotional heft. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Murina (2021) |
Psychological drama Murina masterfully unfolds like a nightmare, as it follows an abusive father and the control he exhibits over his wife and daughter. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Happening (2021) |
Happening grabs you from the first minute and never lets go, taking you on a dark and real journey alongside a young woman facing an unwanted pregnancy in the 1960s. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Prayers for the Stolen (2021) |
Adolescence arrives amidst the backdrop of drug violence and human trafficking in Prayers for the Stolen, a disturbing and gritty drama. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Anaïs in Love (2021) |
Anaïs Demoustier charms as a big ball of energy in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s fleeting but enjoyable Anaïs in Love. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Benediction (2021) |
Often poignant but frequently disjointed, Benediction is a scattered portrait of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, juggling themes of homosexuality, war and religion. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020) |
Striking in its abstract form and hypnotic in its unique compositions, The Metamorphosis of Birds is a deeply personal consideration of life, death and the natural world. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Yuni (2021) |
Shining a fierce light on the societal issue of arranged marriage, Yuni is an affecting, meticulously crafted drama from a director in full control of her craft. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Ali & Ava (2021) |
Ali & Ava might feel thematically slight, but this comforting drama warms the heart and soul with its central romantic relationship. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Cow (2021) |
In her first documentary feature Cow, Andrea Arnold concocts a deeply profound and strikingly resonant film about a mother’s forced separation from her child. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Petrov's Flu (2021) |
Dystopian sci-fi Petrov’s Flu is an intriguing but cluttered mixture of thoughts and musings on Russian society, which makes for a fresh but sometimes frustrating watch. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Licorice Pizza (2021) |
Like taking a time machine back to the 1970s, Licorice Pizza is a delightful piece of cinema, one rich with detail, character and an undeniably charming playfulness. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Memoria (2021) |
Memoria is director Apichatpong Weerasethakul at his best and most daring, with its hypnotic tone and startlingly refreshing conclusion. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Asakusa Kid (2021) |
Asakusa Kid is not the sprawling account of Takeshi Kitano’s life you might expect, but instead is a satisfyingly intimate, focussed view of his formative years. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Encounter (2021) |
Encounter is a paranoid tragedy masquerading as a science fiction thriller, featuring fine work from Riz Ahmed and a deeply human current running through its centre. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Rebel Dykes (2021) |
Rebel Dykes is a dynamic documentary that finds celebration in the face of discrimination, bringing a group of friends’ stories to life in vibrant and giddy detail. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Nowhere Special (2020) |
Rarely emotionally manipulative, Nowhere Special is a sensitive, true-to-life drama about a father and son facing a life-changing moment. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Ear for Eye (2021) |
debbie tucker green’s ear for eye moves from the stage to the screen and retains its fierce voice through its rightly uncomfortable look at racism in the UK and the US. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Bull (2021) |
A brutal tale told with an unflinching callousness whilst offering little reward or glory, only twisted revenge. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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The Velvet Underground (2021) |
Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground is everything the band was: experimental, unique, energetic and, above all else, hypnotic. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Hit the Road (2021) |
Hit the Road is a chaotic but tender snapshot of a family on a journey, shifting at ease between light-hearted humour and affecting drama. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Shepherd (2021) |
Shepherd is an occasionally scary story of grief and isolation, but it ultimately never does anything particularly out of the ordinary or memorable. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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The Hand of God (2021) |
Paolo Sorrentino’s new Netflix feature, The Hand of God, is an expectedly poetic coming-of-age drama set against a sun-kissed Neopolitan backdrop. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) |
Through three distinct but thematically connected stories in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi paints a vivid portrait of people facing choices and fates. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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The Souvenir Part II (2021) |
Joanna Hogg signs off on her double feature with The Souvenir: Part II, a quietly powerful, meta journey through grief and beyond. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Boiling Point (2021) |
Consistently captivating, Boiling Point serves up a main course of tension with side portions of humour, effective drama and memorable acting. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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The Harder They Fall (2021) |
With The Harder They Fall, Jeymes Samuel gives a voice to those who existed but were rarely heard, and issues in a new and exciting era for the Western genre. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Il buco (2021) |
Veering from the magical to the mundane, Il Buco is a missed opportunity to really capture the wonder and adventure of a real-life cave expedition. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Belle (2021) |
Belle is a visually intense, modern-day riff on the classic fairy tale, with wonderful world-building and a charm that never outstays its welcome. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) |
Radu Jude’s scintillatingly outrageous drama comedy, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, roars ahead with its singular vision and incisive screenplay. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Ballad of a White Cow (2021) |
A restrained death penalty drama, Ballad of a White Cow is necessarily harsh in its tone but finds a tangible, human element to anchor its messages. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
Thelma is a film of acceptance, a comforting reference and a sweet ode to his own experiences. - FILMHOUNDS Magazine
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Mad God (2021) |
Mad God is an apocalyptic nightmare of the highest order and boasts some of the most impressive stop-motion animation and world-building of the year.
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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The Justice of Bunny King (2021) |
The Justice of Bunny King is a rollercoaster of spiralling events, with a glowing heart at its centre and intelligent commentaries galore. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Prince of Muck (2021) |
Moving and quiet, Cindy Jansen’s documentary Prince of Muck takes the audience on an atmospheric, grounded journey to the remote reaches of the world. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Don't Breathe 2 (2021) |
Gone is the tense and terrifying silence of the first film, replaced instead by the confused and cluttered noise of its sequel, Don’t Breathe 2. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Paddington 2 (2017) |
Paddington 2 delivers an even more impressive celebration of pure decency and kindness breaking down evil. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Cinema Paradiso (1988) |
One of the greatest Italian films, Cinema Paradiso is a special, timeless classic that will make you smile and weep in equal measure. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Deerskin (2019) |
Jean Dujardin dazzles in absurdist horror. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) |
One of the greatest films to emerge from the pandemic, an always funny, frequently scathing and often emotional tour-de-force of comedy. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) |
Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a meditative, impactful farewell to a cinema in Taipei and exerts even more resonance when looked at through the lens of the past year. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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The Kid Detective (2020) |
Oozing with style and delivering a top-notch mystery story, The Kid Detective is a refreshing piece of cinema with a poignant performance from Adam Brody. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Moffie (2019) |
Moffie is necessarily difficult viewing and on occasion surprisingly beautiful. - Loud and Clear Reviews
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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