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Phil De Semlyen

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Global film editor @timeout; member @londoncritics; former @Empiremagazine news editor; rubbish Avenger.
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The spirit of ‘Cléo from 5 to 7’ infuses this tender-hearted Parisian drama

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By Phil De Semlyen Verified, Pauline Loquès, Théodore Pellerin
| Time Out Verified
It’s grande praise to note that this delicate and soulful French drama can absorb obvious comparisons with Agnès Varda’s French new wave classic Cléo from 5 to 7 without doing the cinematic equivalent of curling up into a ball and weeping in a corner. In fact, it finds its way out of that long shadow and brings its own delicate sensibility to the story of a young person facing up to their mortality over the course of a weekend in Paris.
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Jessie takes the reins in an effervescent fifth-quel full of big emotions

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By Phil De Semlyen Verified, McKenna Harris, Andrew Stanton Verified
| Time Out Verified
Has it really been 30 years? An animation that tapped into our childhood nostalgia right from the get-go back in 1995, a new Toy Story movie now feels like a time machine back to the time we first watched a Toy Story movie – a kind of meta-nostalgia there’s definitely a German word for. Poor Woody has a bald spot and a paunch now – although of the original gang only Woody seems to have aged. And us.
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A requiem to Iceland’s vanishing glaciers with an ethereal Dan Deacon score

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By Phil De Semlyen Verified, Sara Dosa
| Time Out Verified
The culture wars may have pushed the climate crisis out of the headlines – nothing to see there, apparently – but this powerful and poetic Nat Geo documentary is a stark reminder that even the most monolithic elements of our planet are under threat from environmental change.
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