Latest Staff Picks
The films listed below are Alice's Latest Staff Picks, finding their way into this category generally as a result of agreement between staff that they have real merit for one reason or another. Most titles represent a safe choice for those that find choosing a film difficult or are bewildered by Alice's depth and breadth...
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Licorice Pizza (2021)
7.3/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Sasha Spielberg
LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Written... Read more
The Worst Person In The World (2021)
7.9/10
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career p... Read more
Dune (Blu-ray) (2021)
8.1/10
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Stellan Skarsgard...
A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, "Dune" tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny b... Read more
Dune (2021)
8.1/10
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Stellan Skarsgard...
A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, "Dune" tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny b... Read more
Girls Can't Surf (2020)
8.3/10
Director: Christopher Nelius
It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. GIRLS CAN'T SURF follows the j... Read more
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
7.4/10
Inseparable best friends and cousins Autumn and Skylar precariously navigate the vulnerability of female adolescence in rural Pennsylvania. When Autum... Read more
Herself (2020)
7/10
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Molly McCann, Clare Dunne, Ruby Rose O'Hara
The story of an Irish mother trying to protect her family after their landlord sells their rented home and they become homeless. Read more
The Painter And The Thief (2020)
An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care,... Read more
The Empty Man (2020)
5.7/10
Starring: James Badge Dale
On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity. Read more
Downhill (2020)
4.8/10
Director: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Starring: Will Ferrell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Zach Woods
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their... Read more