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Hugh Barnes is a war reporter and author of three books (Special Effects, Gannibal and Understanding Iran) and editor of green-socialist.com

Articles By Hugh Barnes

Natalia Ginzburg: The City and the House review - a dying art

Saturday, 02 August 2025 Read more...

The Road to Patagonia review - journey to the end of the world

Thursday, 10 July 2025 Read more...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

Tuesday, 01 July 2025 Read more...

Words of War review - portrait of a doomed truth-seeker in Putin's Russia

Thursday, 08 May 2025 Read more...

Two to One review - bank heist with a big catch

Monday, 05 May 2025 Read more...

Stelios review - Athenian rhapsody in blues

Saturday, 26 April 2025 Read more...

The Problem With People review - local zero

Friday, 08 November 2024 Read more...

Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings review - a gift that keeps on giving

Monday, 04 November 2024 Read more...

The Room Next Door review - Almodóvar out of his comfort zone

Tuesday, 29 October 2024 Read more...

Endurance review - the greatest escape, AI-assisted

Wednesday, 16 October 2024 Read more...

Timestalker review – she's lost control again

Friday, 11 October 2024 Read more...

The Teacher review - tense West Bank drama

Saturday, 28 September 2024 Read more...

The law's sick voyeurism - director Cédric Kahn on 'The Goldman Case'

Saturday, 21 September 2024 Read more...

My Favourite Cake review - woman, love, and freedom

Monday, 16 September 2024 Read more...

Anna Reid: A Nasty Little War - The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution review - home truths

Friday, 01 March 2024 Read more...

Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes

Tuesday, 02 January 2024 Read more...

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Opening acts don’t always enjoy a full house, but at at the Royal Albert Hall at the end of a UK tour in support of Suzanne Vega and her acclaimed...

Train Dreams review - one man's odyssey into the Americ...

What defines a life? Money and success? Happiness? Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams employs a narrator, much as Terrence Malick’s...

Kali Malone and Drew McDowell generate 'Magnetism'...

It’s weird, right? We’ve somehow stumbled into a world where, for all we’re told that algorithms homogenise music, actually more people than ever...

Palestine 36 review - memories of a nation

“Rebellion begins with a breath,” an opening aphorism declares in this first film recounting Palestine’s 1936-39 Arab Revolt, long historically...

Relay review - the method man

Ash (Riz Ahmed) is one of cinema’s capable men, the kind of monastically devoted pro made to be a hitman or getaway driver. David Fincher’s ...