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• When Critics Disagree
  It boils down to a matter of opinion in the end
  

  Mike Goodridge

  Published: 23/08/2011

• "We laughed a lot": Interview with the late Michael Cacoyannis
  A fascinating talk with the director of Zorba The Greek
  

  GEORGE SAVVIDES

  Published: 17/08/2011

• Nina Hibbin
  The Tyneside Cinema and Nina Hibbin
  

  William Russell

  Published: 14/07/2011

• My First Cannes
  Vice Chair of the Critics' Circle Film Section Anna Smith on Cannes 2011
  

  Anna Smith

  Published: 24/05/2011

• FDA's UK CINEMA SHOWCASE
  The FDA shows its star power
  

  Marianne Gray

  Published: 09/05/2011

• KINO
  The BFI Russian Pioneer Film Season
  

  Marianne Gray

  Published: 06/04/2011

• BOOK REVIEW: 100 Ideas That Changed Film
  By David Parkinson
  

  Review by Laurence Boyce

  Published: 20/08/2012

• The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology by Virginie Selavy
  Film Essays For People Who Like Film
  

  Laurence Boyce

  Published: 23/01/2012

• The Tree Of Life: Cannes Controversy
  Critical controversy surrounds the UK release of Terrence Malick's Palme D'Or contender
  

  Tim Robey

  Published: 19/04/2011

• The Anthony Minghella Film Festival - March 2011
  A festival with a different touch
  

  Marianne Gray

  Published: 22/03/2011

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Poster for The Ides of March, starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney

Bring on the thinking movies.

Summer's mindless spectacle gives way to harsher weather's thinking movies.

Mike Goodridge

Published: 02/09/2011

Summer is for inane, mindless spectacle, but autumn and winter – as if the harsher weather demands it – bring on the thinking movies.

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