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Festivals

Dune – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Timothée Chalamet brings a commanding central presence to this stirring new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ​‘Dune’.
Festivals

Spencer – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Kristen Stewart excels in this psychological portrait of Princess Diana, but a heavy-handed script lets things down.
Festivals

The Card Counter – first-look review

by David Jenkins

It’s Taxi Driver with poker chips in Paul Schrader’s phenomenally entertaining existential thriller.
Festivals

The Hand of God – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Paolo Sorrentino gets personal in this hit-and-miss tale of a world-famous footballer and a filmmaker’s creative birth.
Festivals

Parallel Mothers – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Pedro Almodóvar delivers yet another major late work, with Penélope Cruz on career-best form.
Illustration of a man with wavy, shoulder-length hair, set against an orange and red background with geometric patterns.
LWLies Magazine

LWLies 90: The Dune issue – On sale now!

by David Jenkins

Pack your stillsuits, we’re going to Arrakis for our special 90th edition dedicated to Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.
Festivals

Jane Campion, Paul Schrader head up Venice Film Festival 2021 line-up

by David Jenkins

They’ll be joined by big names and exciting new talent, including Pedro Almodóvar, Ana Lily Amirpour and Pablo Larraín.
Review

Limbo

by David Jenkins

A Syrian musician relocates to a remote Scottish island in Ben Sharrock’s comedy-tinged asylum seeker drama.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

Two of Us

by David Jenkins

Filippo Meneghetti’s debut feature about a late-life same-sex romance hits all the right emotional notes.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

Deerskin

by David Jenkins

Jean Dujardin becomes dangerously obsessed with a deerskin jacket in Quentin Dupieux’s slighter-than-slight comedy.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect

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