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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 8

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Pillion is the film Fifty Shades failed to be

27.11.2025 3

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The masochistic violence of Sisu: Road to Revenge

20.11.2025 3

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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 4

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Bugonia shows Yorgos Lanthimos’ mastery of the grotesque

30.10.2025 6

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Jeremy Allen White is wasted as Bruce Springsteen

23.10.2025 2

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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 3

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Spinal Tap and Downton Abbey refuse to bow out

12.09.2025 3

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On Swift Horses is a plodding take on queer desire

04.09.2025 3

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

28.08.2025 3

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

17.07.2025 4

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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 4

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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 3

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5. How Michel Houellebecq diminished himself

02.06.2025 10

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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 3

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

15.05.2025 10

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4. The Return examines Odysseus’s last act

11.04.2025 2

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4. Joshua Oppenheimer’s surreal apocalyptic musical The End

22.03.2025 9

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s everyday dystopia

14.03.2025 6

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In Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho misses the moment

06.03.2025 9

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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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Radio & podcasts / Radio 3 Unwind is music for the morgue

Soon after the launch of Classic FM in 1992, the then controller of Radio 3, Nicholas Kenyon, asserted that his high-minded station was not in any...

30.11.2024 4

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Gladiator II is a triumph

12.11.2024 30

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4. The resurrection of John le Carré

17.10.2024 3

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4. The Apprentice: a grotesque, compelling Trump satire

15.10.2024 3

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5. The Outrun almost makes a great success of an improbable adaptation

04.10.2024 5

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3. The Outrun almost makes a great success of an improbable adaptation

29.09.2024 1

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Books / Heartbreaking scenes: Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq, reviewed

Michel Houellebecq’s ninth and longest novel, anéantir, was published in France at the beginning of January 2022 with an initial print run of...

19.09.2024 2

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Long live the low life

30.08.2024 10

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Hollywoodgate is a glimpse of the Taliban at work

15.08.2024 2

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