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Maria Duarte
round up
Cinema / 29 May 2025
Film round-up: May 29, 2025
29 May 2025

The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Along Came Love, The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Ritual, and Karate Kid: Legends

fotw
Film of the Week / 29 May 2025
You’ll never walk alone
29 May 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends the powerful dramatisation of the true story of a husband and wife made homeless

IMPECCABLE: Benicio Del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda and Mia Threapleton as his daughter Liesl in The Phoenician Scheme
Film of the week / 22 May 2025
The Marmite-like Mr Anderson
22 May 2025

MARIA DUARTE is in two minds about a peculiar latest offering from Wes Anderson

hallow
Film of the week / 15 May 2025
Cracking dashcam thriller
15 May 2025

MARIA DUARTE is gripped by a tense drama set almost entirely in a car as distressed parents try to rescue their wayward daughter

Treading Water / Pic: IMDb
Film of the week / 24 April 2025
For Laura - with love and squalor
24 April 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends a tough love story that unfolds among mental health issues, drug addiction and inadequate housing

THE PERILS OF INTERNET DATING: (L) Ruaridh Mollica in Sebast
Cinema / 3 April 2025
Film round-up: April 3, 2025
3 April 2025
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Sebastian, Four Mothers, Restless, and The Most Precious of Cargoes
YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF PORT TALBOT, BUT: Toby Jones and
Film of the week / 3 April 2025
Drop the accent, boyo
3 April 2025
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends a drama that explores the formative years of Richard Burton’s life
FATAL TIES: Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett in Black B
Film of the week / 13 March 2025
Mid wife crisis
13 March 2025
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends a deliciously dark thriller that explores the complex loyalties within a marriage
VALENTINE'S DAY BLUES: (L) Memoir Of A Snail; (R) Bridget Jo
Cinema / 13 February 2025
Film round-up: February 13, 2025
13 February 2025
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE review Cottontail, Memoir of a Snail, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and Captain America: Brave New World
TRUE STORY: Aram Sabbah and Mahmoud Bakri in Mahdi Fleifel's
Film of the Week: / 13 February 2025
No direction home
13 February 2025
MARIA DUARTE recommends a tense thriller that uses Palestinian characters to explore the predicament of migrants in Europe
(L) Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbot in Bring Them Down;
Cinema / 7 February 2025
Film round-up: February 7, 2025
7 February 2025
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews September 5, The Fire Inside, Bring Them Down, and Love Hurts
Niousha Akhshi in The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Film of the Week: / 6 February 2025
Iranian thriller, to be handled with care
6 February 2025
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE is enthralled by a complex thriller, but advises caution in accepting its depiction of reality