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Features

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A new documentary explores Scotland’s climate crisis history

by Katie Goh

With Living Proof: A Climate Story, director Dr Emily Munro hopes to inspire change by looking to the past.
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In Praise Of

40 years on, Southern Comfort remains a punishing study of male violence

by Johnny Restall

Released in 1981, Walter Hill’s backwater thriller is at once a celebration and a critique of masculinity in crisis.
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Incoming

Full of sound and fury, the first trailer for The Tragedy of Macbeth is here

by Charles Bramesco

Denzel Washington plays the Thane of Cawdor, and Frances McDormand is his scheming wife.
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Not Movies

Midnight Mass is a thrilling tribute to Stephen King’s literary legacy

by Leila Latif

Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix outing, set in a small island community, is his most ambitious and personal work to date.
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Incoming

Time stops for love in the first trailer for The Worst Person in the World

by Charles Bramesco

Renate Reinsve won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for Joachim Trier’s multi-layered romance.
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Interviews

Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine on their movie inspirations

by Al Horner

The pair’s new concept album ​‘A Beginner’s Mind’ takes its cues from an eclectic list of films, from Mad Max to The Silence of the Lambs.
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Home Ents

Why Johnny Guitar remains a superior subversive western

by Anton Bitel

With its progressive gender politics and liberal undertow, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 film was way ahead of its time.
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Festivals

One Second – first look review

by Daniel Schindel

A return to form for China’s Zhang Yimou with this tale of a village attempting to restore a damaged movie reel.
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Festivals

Jagged – first-look review

by Sydney Urbanek

Alison Klayman delves into the origins and legacy of Alanis Morissette’s groundbreaking album ​‘Jagged Little Pill’.
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Festivals

Benediction – first-look review

by Adam Woodward

Terence Davies’ handsome biopic of the poet Siegfried Sassoon is a lament for lost youth and stolen love.