
Mark Kermode
Writer and broadcaster Mark Kermode is the Observer's chief film critic. He is the author of Hatchet Job and The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex. Follow him on twitter: @kermodemovie
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4 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Dear Comrades! review – dreams and disillusionment of a Communist party stalwart
4 out of 5 stars.The deadly Soviet response to a workers’ strike tests a mother’s faith in communism in Andrei Konchalovsky’s harrowing drama based on true events
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4 out of 5 stars.A jazz-loving music teacher ends up in the beforelife in this existential Pixar beauty from the director of Up and Inside Out
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4 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Possessor review – mind-and-body-snatching thrills from Brandon Cronenberg
4 out of 5 stars.The director shows his father’s flair for visceral cinema in this gleefully gory thriller -
4 out of 5 stars.Patrick review – wry, existential nudist comedy
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4 out of 5 stars.A Texas single mother is determined her daughter will win the local pageant to gain a college scholarship in this beautifully observed debut feature
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5 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Rocks review - empowering, uplifting teenage girl power
5 out of 5 stars.An east London schoolgirl abandoned by her mother struggles to survive in this gritty yet irrepressible ensemble movie -
4 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week The Devil All the Time review – deliciously ripe gothic melodrama
4 out of 5 stars.Antonio Campos delivers a star-studded, darkly comic psychological thriller set in the postwar American Bible belt -
4 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Les Misérables review – a simmering tale of two cities
4 out of 5 stars.Ladj Ly’s César-winning drama explores life on a poor Paris estate
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4 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Summerland review – wartime wonderment with Gemma Arterton
4 out of 5 stars.Gemma Arterton excels as a crotchety loner who takes in a child evacuee
Mark Kermode's film of the week Relic review – heartbreaking horror about Alzheimer's
5 out of 5 stars.