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Film round-up: July 16, 2020
Reviews of Ghosts of War, Masters of Love, Dreambuilders and Arkansas
New releases from Mountain, Soul Asylum and Michael McDermott
ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
Ghosts of War (18)
Directed by Eric Bress
★★★★
SIXTEEN years after The Butterfly Effect, film-maker Eric Bress returns with a seemingly conventional ghost film but which has a deliciously unsettling and surprising twist.
Set in WWII, it follows five battle-hardened US soldiers — played by Brenton Thwaites, Theo Rossi, Kyle Gallner, Skylar Astin and Alan Ritchson — who are assigned to defend and hold a French chateau against the Nazis.
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