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The Woman in the Window (2021)
She has nothing to prove but what's real.
Filmmaker(s): Joe Wright
Crime
Mystery
Thriller

An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

13 May

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Painful wonder why filmmakers make the choices they do. Here is a filmmaker who specialises in acute realism, expansive vision and narrative clarity. He’s chosen a project designed to expand his palette, one that depends on claustrophobic madness and resulting visions. These visions are what...


Published May 13, 2022
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Hanna (2011)
Adapt or die.
Filmmaker(s): Joe Wright
Action
Thriller
Adventure

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

09 Feb

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Young Angelina films spring from the human soul; others are mechanised. A problem is that the commercial process that brings films to us is itself a machine, so we are faced from time to time with the clumsy act of that machine valiantly trying to give...


Published February 9, 2024
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Darkest Hour (2017)
Never never never surrender
Filmmaker(s): Joe Wright
Drama
History

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

29 Jan

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Tunnels, Crossings a scene in this, where Churchill takes ‘the tube’ so that he can meet the citizens. It is the turning point in this story where he is emboldened to fight the Germans agains the odds. It is — if to be lived —...


Published January 29, 2025
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
Filmmaker(s): Joe Wright
Drama
Romance

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

17 Jun

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Juxtapositions amazed at how many people think of books as being encompassed by their stories. When that story appears in a film relatively unaltered, purists rejoice. How silly. Stories are there as frames on which all the meaningful stuff is draped. Or so it would be...


Published June 17, 2025
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