They’ve made some of the greatest films of all time but even the mightiest of Hollywood directors have been lured by the power of commerce to take on advertising. With the annual Christmas mega-marketing now underway, here are 10 adverts made by the best of the best…
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Ingrid Goes West | Review
★★★★
Bittersweet has rarely felt more apt a description than in the case of Ingrid Goes West, a film both painfully sour in its bitterness and poignantly sweet in its aesthetic. Pitch black humour might make for a biting satire but, in Matt Spicer’s hands, this comes not at the expense of heartbreaking emotional resonance. You’ll never ‘follow’ social media in the same way again.
A Bad Moms Christmas | Review
★★
ISIS, cancer, homelessness and Jews are all fair game for comedy in Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s quick turn around sequel to last year’s reasonably successful Bad Moms. Essentially following the footsteps of many a generic sequel, the totally inessential A Bad Moms Christmas rehashes round one to derivative effect. Up with the ante, down with originality.
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