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Wild Horse Nine is a lethal comedy

Wild Horse Nine is a lethal comedy
05.11.2026 20

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5. Why China Miéville won the 2026 Goldsmith’s Prize for fiction

5. Why China Miéville won the 2026 Goldsmith’s Prize for fiction
05.11.2026 50

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Primetime catches Chris Hansen in his own reality TV trap

29.10.2026 20

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Pawlikowski’s Fatherland makes every minute count

22.10.2026 10

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The Influencer Project is too kind to its subjects

15.10.2026 30

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The Social Reckoning is Aaron Sorkin at his exhilarating best

08.10.2026 40

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Tom Cruise’s Oscar dream is a disaster

01.10.2026 30

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Jane Austen, by Gen Z

24.09.2026 80

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Queen at Sea: a brutal masterpiece about the end of life

18.09.2026 40

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Late Fame is a story of snatched youth

03.09.2026 20

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1. Jacob Elordi can’t save The Dog Stars

26.08.2026 40

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Death has never been more camp

25.08.2026 40

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5. Tony cannot make Bourdain cool

12.08.2026 50

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Ice Cream Man: a lactose-fuelled zombie apocalypse

06.08.2026 60

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Luton, mon amour

30.07.2026 70

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The Odyssey is more Hollywood than Homeric

16.07.2026 40

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Rosebush Pruning delights in its own bad taste

09.07.2026 50

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Olivia Wilde’s near-perfect foursome

02.07.2026 40

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Jodie Foster is a force of nature in A Private Life

25.06.2026 40

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Does Virginia Woolf need updating?

18.06.2026 40

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Disclosure Day’s earnest hokum

09.06.2026 50

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The British aristocracy has never been so wretched

04.06.2026 50

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Backrooms: How 4chan “creepypasta” became Hollywood horror

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28.05.2026 40

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Michel Houellebecq’s mature ejaculation

25.05.2026 60

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Ian McKellen thrills in The Christophers

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14.05.2026 50

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When Steven Spielberg predicted AI

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07.05.2026 60

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 is pure guilty pleasure

30.04.2026 60

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Rose of Nevada: a hypnotic Cornish Back to the Future

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23.04.2026 60

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The Wizard of the Kremlin has no magic

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16.04.2026 40

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3. Albert Camus, estranged

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10.04.2026 70

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Jim Jarmusch and the parental pleasure principle

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26.03.2026 70

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La Grazia is Paolo Sorrentino’s best film in years

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19.03.2026 60

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The perils of adapting Kazuo Ishiguro

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12.03.2026 60

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Sound of Falling is an intricate ghost story about trauma across time

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05.03.2026 60

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Sirāt makes raving sacred

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26.02.2026 60

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The Secret Agent is a thrill ride through Brazil’s dictatorship

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19.02.2026 50

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Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell’s sexed-up dreamworld

12.02.2026 40

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Bradley Cooper’s marriage story

29.01.2026 60

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Park Chan-wook couldn’t save No Other Choice

22.01.2026 50

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Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet melts the heart

15.01.2026 50

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The best film & TV to watch in 2026

08.01.2026 60

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Sentimental Value is an extraordinary investigation into generational trauma

14.12.2025 60

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It Was Just an Accident is a reckoning with the Iranian regime

04.12.2025 50

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Pillion is the film Fifty Shades failed to be

27.11.2025 40

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The masochistic violence of Sisu: Road to Revenge

20.11.2025 40

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It ain’t easy being George Clooney

14.11.2025 50

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Jennifer Lawrence gives everything to Die My Love

06.11.2025 50

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Bugonia shows Yorgos Lanthimos’ mastery of the grotesque

30.10.2025 50

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Jeremy Allen White is wasted as Bruce Springsteen

23.10.2025 40

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After the Hunt offers debate but no engagement

21.10.2025 50

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