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Features

Two cowboys on horseback herding cattle across a grassy field.
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Benedict Cumberbatch is a dastardly cowpoke in The Power of the Dog trailer

by Charles Bramesco

He stars with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons in the new Western from Jane Campion.
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Festivals

Five of the best films from the 74th Locarno Film Festival

by Josh Slater-Williams

The global pandemic seeped into this year’s programme in some unusual and surprising ways.
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In Praise Of

Why I love Elizabeth Olsen’s performance in Martha Marcy May Marlene

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Before she became a bona fide movie star, Olsen announced herself as an actor with fearless instincts in Sean Durkin’s directorial debut.
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Interviews

Tallulah Greive: ‘Working-class women aren’t homogeneous’

by Josh Slater-Williams

The star of the riotous Our Ladies talks classism, taking teens seriously and why Derry Girls comparisons are off base.
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Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake is a go, with Anya Taylor-Joy on board

by Charles Bramesco

She’ll play the ripe-necked victim of Orlok the vampire in the new take on FW Murnau’s Gothic classic.
Two individuals, a woman wearing a "We are feminists" t-shirt and a man, standing together and preparing food in a kitchen.
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Penélope Cruz knows best in the first trailer for Parallel Mothers

by Charles Bramesco

She and Milena Smit share a spiritual bond in the new film from Pedro Almodóvar.
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Home Ents

Discover this surreal Japanese erotic horror about artistic obsession

by Anton Bitel

Yasuzô Masumura’s macabre masterpiece Blind Beast paints an unnerving portrait of an artist and his muse.
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Interviews

Nia DaCosta: ‘Candyman turns the white-saviour narrative on its head’

by Leila Latif

The industrious director reveals how she put a personal stamp on her Jordan Peele-produced refit of a horror classic.
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Paolo Sorrentino revisits his childhood in The Hand of God trailer

by Charles Bramesco

In his upcoming work of loose autobiography for Netflix, a young man has a brush with greatness in ​’80s Napoli.
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Not Movies

Nine Perfect Strangers serves up a pitch-black critique of wellness culture

by Roxanne Sancto

Nicole Kidman heads up an irresistible ensemble cast in this insightful social satire from the creator of Big Little Lies.