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Maria Duarte
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Film of the week / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of an enterprising US convict whose campaign of theft involved military planning and exquisite manners

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Film of the week / 2 October 2025
2 October 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends a tense reminder that nuclear war remains a frighteningly real possibility

one battle
Film of the Week / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025

MARIA DUARTE is entertained by a wry portrait of befuddled resistance to US authoritarianism

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Film of the week / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends the powerful study of an underfunded reform school and the staff who struggle to do good

sanatorium
Film of the week / 4 September 2025
4 September 2025

MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium

motherboard
Film of the Week / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable documentary, culled from 20 years of smartphone footage, that documents the trials of being a single parent

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Film of the Week / 24 July 2025
24 July 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family

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Film of the week / 17 July 2025
17 July 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends the ambitious portrait of an agricultural community confronted by the trauma of enclosure

apocalypse
Film of the week / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends a chilling examination of the influence of Evangelical Christianity over the far right in Brazil

shrouds
Film of the Week / 3 July 2025
3 July 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends the creepy thrills of David Cronenburg’s provocative and macabre exploration of grief

peake
Film of the week / 26 June 2025
26 June 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends the very human portrayal of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist in Putin’s Russia

zombie
Film of the week / 19 June 2025
19 June 2025

Is there a political message in the scenario of a plague of raging zombies in the UK, and kids growing up with it, wonders MARIA DUARTE