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Beware of Mr Baker

It’s refreshing to watch a music doc, especially one with such intimate access to its subject, in which barely anyone is unreservedly polite about the person in question. By most accounts, Ginger Baker – celebrated Cream drummer, horse lover, polo pl...

I'm So Excited

One litmus test for auteurism could be whether a director is able to do his or her thing in a tightly confined space. ‘Stagecoach’ and ‘Lifeboat’ are unmistakably the work of John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock, despite being largely confined to, well, a...

The Place Beyond the Pines

American independent movies are regularly compared to Bruce Springsteen songs – so much of the DNA is the same, from blue-collar angst to simmering daddy issues, from passion and heartbreak to petty crime and prison time. At a sprawling 140 minutes,...

A Hijacking

Danish telly has taught us much: the attraction of good knitwear (‘The Killing’); the finer points of Danish politics (‘Borgen’). Now, from this classy hostage movie, we learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates, and – perhaps more usefully – how to...

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