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Film round-up: January 27, 2023
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews All The Beauty and The Bloodshed, The Fabelmans, January, Unwelcome
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed

All The Beauty and The Bloodshed (18)
Directed by Laura Poitras
★★★★


 

THIS powerful and haunting documentary by Oscar winning film-maker Laura Poitras is the epic story of artist and activist Nan Goldin, her trailblazing career and her endless fight to hold one of America’s most powerful families to account for the opioid crisis.

It is a compilation of Goldin’s groundbreaking photography, slide-shows, intimate interviews and rare footage, shot by Goldin herself, of her protests against the Sacklers who patronise the arts but whose fortune derives from the profits of Purdue Pharma, and its product, the addictive opiate Oxycontin, whose misuse sparked an epidemic.

The Fabelmans (12A)
Directed by Steven Spielberg

★★★★

January (12A)
Directed by Andrey M Paounov

★★★

Unwelcome (15)
Directed by Jon Wright

★★

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