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Jim Jarmusch and the parental pleasure principle

Jim Jarmusch and the parental pleasure principle

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La Grazia is Paolo Sorrentino’s best film in years

La Grazia is Paolo Sorrentino’s best film in years

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19.03.2026 10

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The perils of adapting Kazuo Ishiguro

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12.03.2026 10

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

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05.03.2026 10

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Sirāt makes raving sacred

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26.02.2026 10

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

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19.02.2026 10

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Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell’s sexed-up dreamworld

12.02.2026 5

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Bradley Cooper’s marriage story

29.01.2026 8

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Park Chan-wook couldn’t save No Other Choice

22.01.2026 10

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Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet melts the heart

15.01.2026 10

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The best film & TV to watch in 2026

08.01.2026 10

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Sentimental Value is an extraordinary investigation into generational trauma

14.12.2025 10

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

04.12.2025 10

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Pillion is the film Fifty Shades failed to be

27.11.2025 6

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The masochistic violence of Sisu: Road to Revenge

20.11.2025 6

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It ain’t easy being George Clooney

14.11.2025 10

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Jennifer Lawrence gives everything to Die My Love

06.11.2025 7

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Bugonia shows Yorgos Lanthimos’ mastery of the grotesque

30.10.2025 10

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Jeremy Allen White is wasted as Bruce Springsteen

23.10.2025 5

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After the Hunt offers debate but no engagement

21.10.2025 10

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Good Boy: horror in a dog’s life

09.10.2025 7

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Spinal Tap and Downton Abbey refuse to bow out

12.09.2025 7

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On Swift Horses is a plodding take on queer desire

04.09.2025 7

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4. The Roses: a failed story of a failed marriage

28.08.2025 7

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5. Superman’s new mission: to make the world “a bit nicer”

17.07.2025 10

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The picturesque picaresque of Barry Lyndon

14.07.2025 10

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The Salt Path is Scientology for the middle classes

10.07.2025 8

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28 Years of Zombie Britain

22.06.2025 10

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2. Cinema’s apex predator

05.06.2025 7

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5. How Michel Houellebecq diminished himself

02.06.2025 20

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2. The Wizard of the Kremlin takes us inside the mind of Putin’s spin-master

25.05.2025 10

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Wes Anderson’s sense of an ending

23.05.2025 5

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5. Mission: Impossible 8 – the return of the sexless show-off

15.05.2025 20

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4. The Return examines Odysseus’s last act

11.04.2025 4

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4. Joshua Oppenheimer’s surreal apocalyptic musical The End

22.03.2025 10

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s everyday dystopia

14.03.2025 10

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In Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho misses the moment

06.03.2025 10

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2. I’m Still Here: a powerful story of the human spirit under dictatorship

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17.02.2025 10

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5. Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of The Sacred Fig is an act of resistance

03.02.2025 10

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Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s most severe movie

30.01.2025 10

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5. The monumental achievement of The Brutalist

21.01.2025 10

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