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Best Films of 2020: Uncut Gems, Mank, The Lighthouse

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Blaise Radley December 29, 2020December 30, 2020 1917, A White, Da 5 Bloods, Dark Waters, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Ema, His House, Krabi 2562, Le Kiosque, Lovers Rock, Lynn + Lucy, Mangrove, Mank, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Possessor, Residue, Rocks, Saint Maud, Shirley, Sound of Metal, Tenet, The Assistant, The Lighthouse, The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Wild Goose Lake, Trial of the Chicago 7, True History of the Kelly Gang, Uncut Gems, White Day

Feature: Counteract’s 30 best films of 2020

It’s been a bad year for cinemas, but a good year for films. Explore 30 of the best films of 2020 here with Counteract.

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Blaise Radley February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Adèle Haenel, Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Film review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a rare example of pure beauty

The fourth feature by French filmmaker Céline Sciamma skilfully avoids cliché to create something transcendent.

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Blaise Radley February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Robert Eggers, Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse, Willem Dafoe

Film review: The Lighthouse fuses high contrast horror with dark comedy

Writer/director Robert Eggers returns after his occult puritanical horror The Witch with a far more blackly comic piece.

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Blaise Radley January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, The Mockingbird

Preview: Slip into the surreal with Jodorowsky at The Mockingbird

The Mockingbird is showing two films by one of cinema’s all time-great surrealists, Alejandro Jodorowsky – El Topo, and The Holy Mountain.

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Blaise Radley January 6, 2020January 8, 2020 Atlantics, Bait, Booksmart, Burning, Dragged Across Concrete, Eighth Grade, For Sama, Happy As Lazzaro, Her Smell, If Beale Street Could Talk, In Fabric, Knives Out, Marriage Story, Minding the Gap, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Ray & Liz, The Farewell, The Favourite, The Irishman, The Souvenir

Feature: Counteract’s 20 greatest films of 2019

The year might have closed with a few duds, but 2019 has been great for film. Read on to find out some of our favourites.

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Blaise Radley December 20, 2019May 20, 2020 Daisy Ridley, JJ Abrams, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Oscar Isaac, Rian Johnson, The Rise of Skywalker

Film review: The Rise of Skywalker coughs, splutters, soils itself and dies

Disney’s increasingly laboured Star Wars trilogy doesn’t so much as fall across the finish line as faceplant into it. Enter at your own risk.

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Blaise Radley December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 20th Century Women, A Ghost Story, American Honey, Arrival, Beasts of the Southern Wild, BlackKklansman, Blade Runner:2049, Burning, Call Me By Your Name, Carol, First Reformed, Frances Ha, Her, La La land, Lady Bird, Mad Max: Fury Road, Moonlight, Paddington 2, Phantom Thread, Raw, Shoplifters, Silence, The Act of Killing, The Florida Project, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Irishman, The Master, The Shape of Water, Under the Skin, You Were Never Really Here

Feature: Counteract’s 30 greatest films of the 2010s

It’s been a great decade for films (okay, there was some crap too), and we’ve put together the best of the best. Check our countdown now!

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Blaise Radley November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Flatpack, The Magic Cinema

The Magic Cinema to serve up more short film wizardry this November

After it’s successful relaunch in September, The Magic Cinema is back with another evening of wonderful DIY short films.

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Blaise Radley November 17, 2019November 19, 2019 Any Human Heart, brian jonestown massacre, Broad City, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Getting On, Mr. Robot, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, The Bridge, The Legend of Korra

Feature: The best TV shows this decade you probably missed

After we picked our favourite shows of the decade, our writers compiled their favourite shows they felt were missing..

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Blaise Radley November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 Atlanta, Boardwalk Empire, Bojack Horseman, Breaking Bad, Bryan Fuller, Cary Fukanaga, Community, D.B. Weiss, Damon Lindelof, Dan Harmon, David Benioff, David Lynch, Donald Glover, Fargo, Fleabag, Game of Thrones, Hannibal, Jesse Armstrong, Joe Fields, Joe Weisberg, Justin Roiland, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Mad Men, Michael Shur, Nathan Fielder, Nathan for You, Noah Hawley, Parks & Recreation, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Rick and Morty, Spiral, Succession, The Americans, The Leftovers, The Vietnam War, True Detective, Twin Peaks, Vince Gilligan

Feature: The top 20 television shows of the decade

Another ten years passed, another chance to reflect on all the great television we saw (and inevitably even more we missed).

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