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Review

Empire of Light

by David Jenkins

Sam Mendes recruits Olivia Col­man and Michael Ward for this mawk­ish tale of seafront woes and the heal­ing pow­er of movies.

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In Retrospect
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Review

1917

by Greg Wetherall

Sam Mendes’ grip­ping World War One dra­ma is light on plot but dis­plays plen­ty of tech­ni­cal panache.

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Review

Spectre

by Adam Woodward

Bond 24 is an enor­mous, mul­ti-ten­ta­cled beast. Some­times for bet­ter, some­times for worse.

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