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Sirāt review – a truly staggering, major film

Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât, a film about life, death, and

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Diving into the SXSW film line-up

In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps if you’ve cultivated a specific vibe

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Amanda Seyfried: ‘This movie has changed me’

Amanda Seyfried is unwrapping a magic set she just purchased from Hamleys as I walk into a hotel room in London to interview her. She wants to share

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The Moment review – it’s not that easy being green

On June 7 2024 Charli XCX unleashed a monster. Green, mean and only 41:23 minutes long, ​‘brat’ wasn’t just an album – it was an entire summer. And

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What Wasteman shows us about the reality of…

Director Cal McMau spent 10 years doing research, mainly via watching phone-captured footage smuggled out of prison and uploaded to YouTube, some of which is replicated

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Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up review –…

The Looney Tunes have admittedly fallen on hard times in recent years. As far as animation was concerned, David Zaslav’s feckless régime at Warner Brothers

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Crime 101 review – strong cast, weak script

I should start by addressing the elephant in the room: Bart Layton is very clearly a fan of Michael Mann. Making a heist film set in Los

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Wuthering Heights review – pretty vacant

The supporting cast fair no better. Edward Linton (Shazad Latif) is also retooled, now a nice but dull man who lives in a house so antithetical to

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Death with Dignity: the documentaries…

“Now that sex is available to us in hardcore porno films, death remains the one last taboo in cinema,” wrote the film critic Amos Vogel in

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Twinless review – a twee showcase for actor Dylan…

When an actor takes on multiple roles in a movie, you’re forced to wonder if this casting choice has been made to stoke the actor’s ego