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Venice Film Festival

Jay Kelly – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Noah Baumbach’s new dramedy isn’t breaking new ground, but it’s a charming, wistful take on what lies beneath the myth of celebrity.
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Venice Film Festival

Bugonia – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Yorgos Lanthimos’ stylish and sardonic take on the Korean sci-fi caper Save The Green Planet! defies the remake odds.
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Venice Film Festival

Orphan – first-look review

by Marshall Shaffer

Despite a compelling scenario, the characters in László Nemes’s third feature feel more like stand-ins for ideas than flesh-and-blood people.
Man in black coat and bowler hat walking on wet path between bare trees, viewed from behind on overcast day.
Venice Film Festival

La Grazia – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest tries to recapture the unruly political bite of his early films, with mixed results.
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In Praise Of

Sex and the City 2 and the end of America

by Hugo Emmerzael

The final film in the iconic franchise celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Although critically reviled, it serves as a fascinating timecapsule of the early 2010s. 
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LWLies Magazine

LWLies 109: A Tilda Swinton Reader – Out now!

Take an adventure through the eclectic career of artist and performer Tilda Swinton in our special issue. 
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Acting Up

The extreme vulnerability of Joaquin Phoenix

by Sonya Vseliubska

One of the most distinctive actors of his generation has made unabashed commitment to his craft his signature – in Ari Aster he might have met his match.
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In Praise Of

In defence of the cinema date

by Gabrielle Sicam

Don’t listen to the naysayers – there’s nothing more romantic than the dark of the matinée.
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In Conversation

Eva Victor: 'I used the title as a way to reward myself once I wrote it'

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The writer/​director/​star of festival sensation, Sorry, Baby, on bellybutton piercings and finding a sombre humour and reflection in the subject of sexual abuse.
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Journeys

Inside the inaugural edition of the Collective Film Festival London

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A dispatch from a passionate grassroots project over in Finsbury Park.

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