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27.01.2025 10

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Cinema / It’s no Citizen Kane: The Brutalist reviewed

23.01.2025 9

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A classy potboiler – but it’s no Citizen Kane: The Brutalist reviewed

23.01.2025 10

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As good a Dylan biopic as you’ll ever get: A Complete Unknown reviewed

16.01.2025 10

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Jolie good: Maria reviewed

09.01.2025 8

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Cinema / Fools will love it: We Live in Time reviewed

We Live in Time is a rom-com (of sorts), starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. They have terrific chemistry and elevate the material by around...

03.01.2025 4

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Fools will love it: We Live in Time reviewed

We Live in Time is a rom-com (of sorts), starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. They have terrific chemistry and elevate the material by around...

02.01.2025 5

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Cinema / Guadagnino is a true master of erotic desire

Queer, which is based on the novella by William S. Burroughs, is the latest film directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Challengers)...

30.12.2024 4

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The best film about a woman turning into a dog that you’ll see this year

Nightbitch stars Amy Adams as a mother who is so full of rage about her loss of identity it makes her feral and she starts turning into a dog. It’s...

05.12.2024 3

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Smart, taut and stunning: Conclave reviewed

Conclave is a papal thriller based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris and it stars a magnificent Ralph Fiennes. If he doesn’t win an Oscar I’ll...

28.11.2024 20

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Cinema / Yes, Anora is as good as everyone says it is

Sean Baker’s Anora won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and is hotly tipped to win big at the Oscars and I know you won’t believe it’s as good as...

23.11.2024 5

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Is it meant to be a comedy? Gladiator II reviewed

It’s nearly 25 years since Ridley Scott’s Gladiator came out and you’ve probably been wondering what happened to the little boy in that film. I...

14.11.2024 1

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Serious and gripping – though Trump disagrees: The Apprentice reviewed

The Apprentice is a dramatised biopic of Donald Trump, covering his early business years. He has called the film ‘FAKE and CLASSLESS’ and...

17.10.2024 3

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Cinema / Joker: Folie à Deux makes me long for the Joker of my childhood

Joker: Folie à Deux is the sequel to Joker (2019), and you have to admire Todd Phillips for returning with a jukebox musical, co-starring Lady...

12.10.2024 5

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Melodramatic body-horror – but I don’t regret seeing it: A Different Man reviewed

Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man is ‘a darkly comic psychological thriller’ that plays like an inverted Beauty and the Beast. What happens when...

03.10.2024 3

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Baffling and plainly nuts – but worth it: Megalopolis reviewed

Megalopolis, which draws parallels between the fall of the Roman empire and modern-day America, is a film by Francis Ford Coppola – and it...

26.09.2024 3

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When is anyone going to properly appreciate what critics have to go through?

The Critic is a period drama starring Ian McKellen as a newspaper theatre critic famed for his savagery and it did sound as if it had all the...

12.09.2024 2

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Cinema / A historical abomination: Firebrand reviewed

Firebrand is a period drama about Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr. It is sumptuously photographed – it’s as if Hans Holbein were...

05.09.2024 4

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The Terminator is still the best

The Terminator is James Cameron’s first film, made a star of Arnold Schwarzenegger, is celebrating its 40th anniversary – there’s a 4K...

29.08.2024 5

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A demented must-watch: Caligula – The Ultimate Cut reviewed

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut is a new version of the 1979 Caligula that is still banned in some countries (Belarus). The most expensive independent...

08.08.2024 1

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Funny, authentic and takes you right back to being 13: Didi reviewed

Didi is a coming-of-age drama by the Taiwanese-American writer-director Sean Wang. It’s set in the summer of 2008 and based on his own adolescence...

01.08.2024 1

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Oblique and long but never boring: About Dry Grasses reviewed

About Dry Grasses is the latest film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan and it had better – I thought to myself as the lights dimmed – have a...

25.07.2024 1

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Acceptable for a hangover day: Fly Me to the Moon reviewed

Fly Me to the Moon is a romantic comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum set during the 1960s space race but, unlike Apollo 11, this...

11.07.2024 1

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