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Jimmy review – simple-minded James Stewart biopic is too straightforward
Riverdale’s KJ Apa gives surprisingly solid performance but this corny look at iconic actor’s life is missed opportunity
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Carrie at 50: Brian De Palma’s fiery masterpiece still has the power
The Oscar-nominated 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s high school horror remains heartbreaking and horrifying in equal m...
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The Devils review – Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale is a frenzied aria of confrontation and hysteria
Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave put in the performances of their lives in this film originally banned for obscenity tha...
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City of Masks review – theatreland ghost story with female phantom of the opera out for revenge
In a West End theatre, a young actor hears a disembodied voice coaching his singing. It’s the start of an icky ghost-on-...
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What Chris Rock’s film Misty Green misses about Black characters
Director Rock establishes the film’s setting of Los Angeles better than the lead character, played by Rosalind Eleazar
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Extra Geography review – a wickedly funny lesson in sex, class and female friendship
A boarding-school escapade becomes a wonderfully acted coming-of-age comedy, as two best friends find their world threat...
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Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller
A priest investigates his daughter’s kidnapping in Thailand in this Paul Schrader-esque inquiry into spiritual nihilism
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‘I’m a writer but then nobody’s perfect’: how Billy Wilder conquered Hollywood
From émigré roots to a titan of modern cinema, penning classics such as Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot and The Apart...
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‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films remembers a 1987 teenage gir...
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Heart of the action: why organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes
Whether its a nod to frontline Covid heroes or a return to biology in a world of digital noise, there’s a rich vein of n...
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Prima Facie review – fiery one-woman play is flattened into a bland movie
Cynthia Erivo takes on the role Jodie Comer made famous for a pointless adaptation of a story about rape and retribution...
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Love of Your Life review – Margaret Qualley eats, grieves and loves in Amazon’s transporting saga
The actor gives one of her best performances to date in a smoothly made globe-trotting drama of a woman’s life after the...