Mark Kermode
Writer and broadcaster Mark Kermode is the Observer's chief film critic. He is the author of Hatchet Job and The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex. Twitter @kermodemovie
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4 out of 5 stars.Mark Kermode's film of the weekPretty Red Dress review – toe-tapping London tale of desire and identityNatey Jones and Alexandra Burke play a couple tussling with dreams and secret shame in Dionne Edwards’s defiant yet uplifting drama with music at its core
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4 out of 5 stars.Mark Kermode's film of the weekReality review – palm-sweatingly tense whistleblower drama
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4 out of 5 stars.Mark Kermode's film of the weekLittle Richard: I Am Everything review – thrilling documentary about the rock’n’roll pioneerLisa Cortés’s richly enjoyable film examines the alter egos and queer theories surrounding a conflicted star who was way ahead of his time
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4 out of 5 stars.Mark Kermode's film of the weekInfinity Pool review – Mia Goth electrifies in a nightmarish thrillerThe actor’s live-wire performance in Brandon Cronenberg’s outlandish satire about super-rich tourists being cloned on a holiday from hell is worth the admission price alone
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3 out of 5 stars.Elizabeth Banks’s playfully anarchic creature-feature about a rampaging beast high on drugs is as daft as it is entertaining
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