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Review: The Awakening [***]

Aleona Krechetova finds it less spooky than ludicrous.


   

Review: Bel Ami [**]

Isabella Silver on a superficial R-Pattz vehicle.


   

Review: 21 Jump Street [***]

Isabella Silver finds it quick, quirky, and Coke-shooting-out-of-nose-from-laughing funny, but also facile, obscene and stupid.


   

Review: The Kid with a Bike [***]

Kirsty Kenney on the Dardenne brothers’s touching new film.


   

Lucian Freud: Portraits

Shyam Desai on an extensive exhibition that has become a shrine to the late master.


   

A bloody, romantic horror

Rasha Al-Dabagh finds a violent and distubring, yet emotionally harrowing horror film in Eden Lake.


   

Dramality is more boring than reality

Edward Larkin’s anti-dramality rant on why Made in Chelsea leaves him cold.


   

Open City by Teju Cole

Wafi Abd-Manan doesn’t find much of a plot in Open City, but that doesn’t stop it’s author from delivering an alluring and entrancing novel.


   

More than a whistle-blower?

Ling Yah deems this analysis of the role and impact of whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks a terrific read.


   

The Ruins of Detroit, Wilmotte Gallery

Alessandro Allegra observes the decline of the once greatest of industrial cities through the photography of Marchand and Meffre.



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