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Freelance Writer

Kate is a freelance film journalist and critic. Her bylines have appeared online and in print for GamesRadar, Total Film, the BFI, Sight & Sounds, and WithGuitars.com.

Latest articles by Kate Stables

Diana review

By Kate Stables published 13 September 13

A royal affair - with cheese...

Adventure Movies

In A World... review

By Kate Stables published 9 September 13

Lake Bell finds her voice

Action Movies

Any Day Now review

By Kate Stables published 30 August 13

There will be tears with this '70s-set melodrama

Action Movies

Lovelace review

By Kate Stables published 10 August 13

The story of a hardcore pawn...

Action Movies

Les Invisibles review

By Kate Stables published 9 July 13

A tender, graceful documentary

Action Movies

The Deep review

By Kate Stables published 9 July 13

A true story of a man shipwrecked in freezing conditions

Action Movies

The Bling Ring review

By Kate Stables published 16 June 13

Emma Watson goes from Hogwarts to hog-wild...

Crime Movies

The Company You Keep review

By Kate Stables published 17 May 13

Run, Robert, run…

Action Movies

In The Fog review

By Kate Stables published 16 April 13

Russian heavy-hitter Sergei Loznitsa deals with murky morals

Action Movies

Thursday Till Sunday review

By Kate Stables published 22 March 13

A directorial debut from Dominga Sotomayor Castillo

Action Movies

Lincoln review

By Kate Stables published 11 January 13

As his mates Bill and Ted would say, excellent

Action Movies

Great Expectations review

By Kate Stables published 26 November 12

Expect the, um, expected from this Charles Dickens adaptation

Action Movies

Beasts Of The Southern Wild review

By Kate Stables published 10 October 12

A breathtakingly original magical-realist fable set in a Louisiana bayou

Action Movies

The Knot review

By Kate Stables published 28 September 12

Another lacklustre British bridal romcom

Action Movies

Petit Nicolas review

By Kate Stables published 13 August 12

A smart, sweet adap of René Goscinny’s ’60s schoolboy tales

Action Movies

El Bulli: Cooking In Progress review

By Kate Stables published 16 July 12

A documentary account of the avant-garde Spanish über-restaurant

Action Movies

Cloclo review

By Kate Stables published 21 June 12

Portrait of a disco demon

Action Movies

Lay The Favourite review

By Kate Stables published 13 June 12

Don't bet on it...

Biography Movies

Fast Girls review

By Kate Stables published 13 June 12

A glossy, girl-power athletics drama

Action Movies

The Apartment review

By Kate Stables published 13 June 12

Jack Lemmon stars in Billy Wilder's classic

Action Movies

All In Good Time review

By Kate Stables published 4 May 12

Northern newlyweds in bedroom farce

Action Movies

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close review

By Kate Stables published 23 January 12

A boy's journey retracing 9/11

Action Movies

The Iron Lady review

By Kate Stables published 22 November 11

Unsuitable for miners…

Action Movies

Horrid Henry: The Movie review

By Kate Stables published 29 July 11

Brash and energetic 3D antics for little horrors...

Action Movies

Prom review

By Kate Stables published 2 June 11

All the familiar high school characters are present in this tween drama

Comedy Movies

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