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2 weeks ago

Ghost Trail review pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

The face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdrawn, yet showing us an inexpressible agony, a suppressed, unprocessed trauma, complicated by what is evidently a new strategic wariness. The refugee is Hamid (played by Adam Bessa), a former literature professor from Aleppo who is now in Strasbourg in France in 2016,
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4 months ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Stephen King's 'Never Flinch' intertwines chilling murder threats with themes of justice and atonement, highlighting the investigative prowess of Holly Gibney.
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