Staunch Test FAIL. A mentally troubled stand-up comedian embarks on a downward spiral that ultimately leads to the creation of an iconic villain. Joker is a slow-paced psychological thriller that…
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Staunch Test DEBATE. Theo (Kevin Bacon), a former banker with a turbulent past, his young wife Susanna (Amanda Seyfried) and their six-year-old daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex) book a vacation...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Ray (Nicolas Cage) and Maggie (Robin Tunney) are a married couple who bought a motel in the desert in order to start over with their lives after...
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Staunch Test FAIL. During a blizzard Darby (Havana Rose Liu), a college student and recovering addict, gets stuck with a group of people at a visitor centre. She finds out...
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Staunch Test FAIL. David (Anastasios Soulis) and his pregnant wife Nadja (Nanna Blondell) travel to the north of Sweden for a hiking trip, hoping to revive their relationship. Once they’re…
Staunch Test DEBATE. In a not-so-distant future, the government requires that everyone receive an ocular implant that records the user’s point-of- view and provides them with information about everyone and…
Staunch Test FAIL. Beth (Leighton Meester) and Kate (Christina Wolfe) are two best friends who are spending a weekend in Croatia. Everything is perfect until Beth wakes up to find...
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Staunch Test FAIL. When Julie (Amber Midthunder) starts dating local policeman David (Brett Zimmerman) she thinks she's finally found the love of her life. He’s sweet and cares about her,...
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Staunch Test PASS. The movie follows the course of a Thanksgiving dinner in Brigid Blake’s (Beanie Feldstein) apartment. She’s invited her whole family including her grandmother Mom (June Squibb) who…
Staunch Test FAIL. Mary Morrison (Kristin Davis) is a bestselling novelist who is suffering from writer’s block. Her life is otherwise perfect - she has a caring husband and two...
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Staunch Test DEBATE. A hiking trip set up as a bachelor party weekend doesn’t go as planned when five friends desperately struggle to survive as a mysterious shooter tries to...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Deacon (Denzel Washington) is a California deputy sheriff who is sent to Los Angeles to collect evidence related to a recent murder. Once he gets there, new...
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Staunch Test PASS. Amanda (Maria Valverde) is lying in pain and someone is dragging her. She is talking to someone who sounds like a kid. He tells her that she...
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Staunch Test PASS (Documentary) W. Kamau Bell starts off the docuseries acknowledging that due to his ethnicity, generation, and profession- he grew up a huge Bill Cosby fan. And the...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Zola is loosely based on true events that went viral via a 148-tweet thread written by Aizah “Zola” King that trended worldwide. It’s now infamous tagline read...
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Staunch Test PASS. Cherry takes place over a time span of 18 years, from 2003 to 2021, and focuses on Cherry (Tom Holland) and Emily (Ciaro Bravo). College sweethearts, who...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Nightmare Alley is an adaption of the of the original William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 crime novel, directed by the critically acclaimed Guillermo del Toro who has a...
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Staunch Test PASS. Kyle (Fran Kranz) is a suburban father who works for a bank and lives a simple life with his wife and daughter. One day he gets visited...
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Staunch Test DEBATE. Mark (Jamie Blackley) is a teenager who has an online-virtual relationship with Rachel (Jamie Winstone), a young woman who lives with her abusive boyfriend Kevin (Mingus Johnston)....
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Staunch Test FAIL. Mimi Cave's Fresh has the kind of genre-bending an audience loves to see. It starts off as a romcom where Noa (Daisy-Edgar Jones) struggles through the abyss...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Hungry Hearts tells the story of Jude (Adam Driver) and Mina (Alba Rohrwacher), how their relationship started and how it brutally ended. The beginning of the movie...
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Staunch Test FAIL. 17-year-old Rain Burroughs (Madison Iseman) suffers from schizophrenia and struggles with hallucinations. She suspects that her teacher and neighbour Ms McConnell (Eugenie Bondurant) has imprisoned a little...
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Staunch Test DEBATE. In 1988 police officer Thomas Lockhart (Boyd Holbrook) investigates a series of simultaneous murders that can’t be explained scientifically. He finds the suspect (Cleopatra Coleman) but before...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Any film that plays hostage to fortune with a name like The Unforgiveable is asking for a merciless review. Nora Fingscheidt directs this Hollywood remake of writer...
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Staunch Test DEBATE. A teenage girl (Clara Rugaard) is raised underground by a robot, that calls itself Mother, (voiced by Rose Byrne) designed to repopulate the earth. The girl thinks...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Set in southern Ohio, The Devil All The Time is a mult-generational story that follows several characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s....
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Staunch Test FAIL. Scott (Michael Ealy) and Annie (Meagan Good) are a happily married couple looking for a house in Napa Valley. Scott has just been promoted and they want...
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Staunch Test PASS. James Norton puts in a powerful and nuanced performance as Gareth Jones, a journalist from Barry in Wales, in this thriller based on a true story. It’s...
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Staunch Test PASS. Edward Norton writes, directs and stars in this neo-noir adaptation of the novel by Jonathon Lethem. A classic, classy style recreates 1950s New York in a story...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline) is an ex-detective who is lured back into service when a serial killer takes his eleventh victim, terrorising the city. The movie opens...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Murder By Numbers (Barbet Schroeder, 2002) Richard (Ryan Gosling) and Justin (Michael Pitt) are two rich high school students who team up to plan the perfect murder....
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Staunch Test FAIL. Regina Lambert (Thandiwe Newton) lives in Paris with her husband Charlie. When she returns home after a vacation she discovers that her husband is dead and their...
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Staunch Test PASS. After her husbands dies in an accident, Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) and her six year-old daughter Julia are traveling back to New York from Berlin. Three hours...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Hotel manager Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is trapped in a red-eye flight with Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy) a man who works for a terroristic organization that wants...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Beth (Rebecca Hall) has just lost her husband Owen (Evan Jonigkeit) to suicide. She lives in the house he built for them and, even if that hurts...
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Staunch Test PASS. Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are paramedics in New Orleans. They start investigating a series of mysterious deaths that seem to be linked to a...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is a personal shopper who works in Paris for Kyra (Nora Waldstätten), a fashion celebrity. Maureen is also a medium and she is trying...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Angel (Mario Casa) is an unsympathetic paramedic who lives with his girlfriend Vane (Déborah François). He is abusive and when he is left paralysed after a bad...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Troubled teenager Heather (Agnes Bruckner) is sent to a private high school by her estranged mother. From the first night, she starts having weird nightmares about the...
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Staunch Test PASS. New York psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) assumes the case of Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling) a young painter and car accident survivor who announces he will be...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Ray (Sam Worthington), Joanne (Lily Rabe) and their daughter Peri (Lucy Capri) stop at a gas station during a long trip across the country. Peri falls and...
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Staunch Test PASS. Chloe is a seven year old girl who lives with her protective father (Emile Hirsch). He doesn’t want her to leave the house and tells her that...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a computer scientist and owner of a company that created a virtual reality simulation of 1937 Los Angeles. Fuller discovers something really...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Tyler (Taylor John Smith) and Alison (Halston Sage) are two high school students madly in love with each other. They seem to have the perfect relationship until...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Jonas (Philip Froissant) is a high school student who lives with his grandfather on a small North Sea Island. The arrival of a new teacher at school...
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Staunch Test DEBATE. Sarah Dunne (Julia Sarah Stone) is a high school student in need of money who agrees to be a test subject in a university sleep experiment, until...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Last Night in Soho is a Staunch Test Fail. There’s violence against women and sexual exploitation. This is by far the most grounded of Edgar Wright’s films....
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Staunch Test FAIL. Bond is back, and feels as though there's been more focus on the fact that it’s Daniel Craig’s final outing in the role than on the quality...
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Staunch Test PASS. Fred Onyango considers the legacy of Dune. Two female characters die in this film, but I would say it's a #Staunch Test Pass. The women were killed...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Jenn Tompson (Kate Siegel) is a young unemployed woman who recently broke up with her boyfriend. Following her friend’s advice she starts seeing Dr. Collin Meade (Jason...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver are central to this Ridley Scott period piece about the rape of a woman, Marguerite de Carrouges, based on a...
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Staunch Test FAIL! You is a hugely successful Netflix series about a serial stalker/killer. Here’s his game: obsess about a particular woman, stalk her, engage, break into her home and...
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Staunch Test PASS. Four mathematicians receive an invitation to solve the world’s greatest enigma by a mysterious host who calls himself Fermat. They find themselves trapped in a room that...
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Staunch Test FAIL. An oil platform crew, led by Bud Brigman (Ed Harris), go on a recovery mission after an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean seas. They find something...
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Staunch Test FAIL. It’s 2025, a company called The Union sells really expensive artificial organs and sends repo men to repossess them when the customers can’t pay the instalments anymore,...
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Staunch Test FAIL. It is 1912. Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a famous writer who works with the police to expose ghosts and spiritualists’ hoaxes. One day she is contacted...
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Staunch Test FAIL. M.O.M. - Mothers of Monsters (Tucia Lyman) Abbey is a concerned single mother (Melinda Page Hamilton) who starts spying on her teenage son (Bailey Edwards) because she...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Ellen (Madelaine Petsch) wakes up in a hospital room, her optical nerve has been damaged after an attack by un unknown assailant. She’s blind now and her...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda), a “single, white female”, places a newspaper ad to find a roommate after her fiancé cheated on her breaking off their engagement. She...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Staney (Hugh Jackman) is a hacker known for infecting FBI’s computers with a virus. His parole prevents him from accessing the internet until a woman named Ginger...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Flowers in the Attic (Jeffrey Bloom, 1987) After the death of their father Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams), Cathy (Kristy Swanson), Cory (Ben Ryan Ganger), Carrie (Lindsay Parker)...
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Staunch Test DEBATE. The crew of a spaceship heading to Mars discovers an accidental stowaway on board. They can’t go back to Earth and oxygen resources are dwindling. Stowaway is...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Alex Sternbergen (Jane Fonda) is an alcoholic actress who wakes up on Thanksgiving next to a murdered man. She can’t remember anything from the night before, did...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Meera Parsons (Freida Pinto) and her husband Henry (Logan Marshall-Green) just moved to a small town in a modern and extravagant house designed by him. They seem...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Atmospheric, slow-moving Icelandic television series excellently dubbed in English with Icelandic accents rather than the standard American ones. During a lengthy eruption of the Katla volcano, people...
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Staunch Test DEBATE. A family on a much-needed vacation discover that the isolated, deceptively idyllic beach they head to for just one day, trigger an accelerated ageing process. This horrifying...
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Staunch Test DEBATE A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman. A very one dimensional...
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Staunch Test DEBATE? Or Staunch Test PASS? Our reviewers see it differently! What do you think? Staunch Test Debate: Ex-military interrogator and mystery gambler William Tell is haunted by his past...
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#Staunch Test PASS. Family man Nick Brewer, (Adrian Grenier), is mysteriously abducted, shortly thereafter, a video was uploaded showing him beaten up and holding a placard saying he had abused...
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Tammy Thornton revisits The Shining with a fresh pair of eyes. I want to be clear from the start, I love a good horror film. Of all genres, psychological, blood and...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Pippa (Sydney Sweeney) and Thomas (Ben Hardy) have just moved to their dream apartment. One night they notice that they can perfectly see what happens in the...
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Staunch Test FAIL. I See You (Adam Randall, 2019) Jackie Harper’s (Helen Hunt) family is struggling with tensions after her detective husband (Jon Tenney) finds out she cheated on him....
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Staunch Test FAIL. People suddenly lose the ability to sleep and it’s just a matter of time before the symptoms of sleep deprivation lead humanity to death. Jill (Gina Rodriguez),...
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Staunch Test DEBATE. A woman (Mélanie Laurent) wakes up in a cryogenic chamber with no memory of who she is and how she got there. She has to work together...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) runs a service that allows people to relive their memories. After his girlfriend Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) disappears he investigates to learn the truth...
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#Staunch Test FAIL. Alma Fillcot (Allison Tolman) is a bored housewife whose dream is to join an exclusive garden club patronised by rich, beautiful and, most importantly, mean high society...
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#Staunch Test FAIL. Chrisian Duguay directs Sophie (Mila Kunis) as a troubled teenager who is sent to a rehabilitation camp where kids are abused and brainwashed. Her boyfriend Ben (Gregory...
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Staunch Test Senior Film Writer Fred Onyango explores the fate of women in director Christopher Nolan's work. As the credits rolled, silence filled the room - nobody was entirely...
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Film Writer Fred Onyango analyses Gone Girl from a Staunch Test POV! A concerned husband, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), rushes back home early in the morning of his wedding...
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#Staunch Test PASS. In Mennan Yapo's supernatural thriller, housewife Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) relives the week of her husband’s death out of sequence. These sort of premonitions give her the...
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#Staunch Test FAIL. In Macon Blair's I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) is a depressed medical facility assistant who finds a new life purpose...
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Staunch Test FAIL. The series follows three storylines involving three women who are experiencing some sort of infidelity in their marriage. The stories are set in the same mansion but...
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By Simona Columbano The Woman in the Window (Joe Wright, 2021) Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is an agoraphobic child psychologist who witnesses a murder across the street - or thinks...
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Staunch Test FAIL. Blame the Ghost! Things Heard and Seen 2021) Artist Catherine Claire moves with her family from Manhattan to a remote farm house in the Hudson Valley. As...
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Does love really conquer all? By Tanya Vyas The concept in this film is intriguing on many levels and begs the question, what would you do? Having woken prematurely from...
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A new report by the Police and the CPS finds each other to blame for the appallingly low number of reported rapes reaching prosecution – let alone conviction – in…
Does Promising Young Woman deliver all it promises? This article contains spoilers! By Esther Huntington-Whiteley Promising Young Woman is up for Staunch Test Debate rating, because while it does include…
By Emma Doran Night after night, film after film, TV show after TV show, violent acts of rape are portrayed on our screens and beamed into our homes. Crime shows…
How is the film and television industry handling the huge wave of reports about sexual assault, harassment and bullying that make this such a toxic workplace, especially for women? A…
They created a monster women would fall for, then told them not to… By Emma Doran and the Staunch Test team This post contains spoilers! In 2018 the first series…
How an invisible mastermind justified all that violence By Esther Huntington-Whiteley and the Staunch Test team This article contains spoilers! Since the sixth season has drawn to a close, let’s…
Sex abuse in schools has become so widespread that teachers are at a loss how to deal with it. Often, it goes unreported by the schools themselves as they don’t…
The shocking figures on rape prosecutions in the UK reveal that only 1.6% of reported rapes result in a charge. That’s a charge. That’s 1 in 60. That’s not prosecutions….
What does it mean to live in a society where violence against women and girls, particularly those from marginalized communities, is treated as comedic fodder? Saweetie, Rihanna, and the Memeification…
