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Film round-up: June 15, 2023
MARIA DUARTE reviews of Sunlight, You Can Live Forever, Inland and Greatest Days
(L to R) Barry Ward as Leon and Liam Carney as Iver
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Sunlight (15)
Directed by Claire Dix
★★★
E
A FORMER addict decides to take his terminally ill best friend and sponsor on one last hurrah across Dublin in a bid to persuade him to choose life in Claire Dix’s touching yet heartbreaking debut fiction feature.
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