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Everything you need to know about The Man Who Invented Christmas

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has the – ever so slightly dubious – honour of being the most adapted novel of all time (more than Pride and Prejudice!!) so goodness knows why it’s taken so long for the origin story…?

Spoilers may follow.

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Good Time | Review

★★★★★

With a barnstorming turn from Robert Pattinson, grimy design, and synth-y aural-aesthetic as the film’s selling points, a soundtrack from Oneohtrix Point Never is not the only electric element of the Safdie brothers’ Good Time. This is genre cinema that puts a beating heart at the centre of its twisty, metropolitan plot, before repeatedly ripping it out to jaw-dropping effect. Fantastic.

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