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Features

Ben Sharrock’s Limbo makes my home country feel unknown

by Rory Doherty

The Scotland depicted in this incisive asylum drama is at odds with how the nation likes to see itself.
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Tomorrow creeps in its petty pace in the first image from Joel Coen’s Macbeth

by Charles Bramesco

Denzel Washington assays the Scottish noble and Frances McDormand is his scheming wife in the NYFF opener.
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Julia Ducournau’s first film is available to watch for free

by Hannah Strong

Before she was a Palme d’or winner, Ducournau made a creepy little short about a teenager undergoing a strange transformation.
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Matt Damon and Adam Driver throw down the gauntlet in The Last Duel trailer

by Charles Bramesco

In Ridley Scott’s medieval epic, they face off alongside Jodie Comer and a towheaded Ben Affleck.
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The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival returns with a wave of announcements

by Charles Bramesco

Kenneth Branagh, Edgar Wright, Mélanie Laurent, Zhang Yimou, Terence Davies, and many more!
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Queer Cinema

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was an escape for queer teens like me

by Samuel Sims

Through its rejection of gender stereotypes, the 2001 video game adaptation helped me realise the power of my own identity.
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Your guide to the major distribution deals from Cannes 2021

by Charles Bramesco

Here’s a full breakdown of who is bringing some of the year’s most-anticipated movies to the UK and US.
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Home Ents

Is True Romance the ultimate male movie fantasy?

by Anton Bitel

With its movie nerd hero, doting blonde heroine and shocking violence, this early ​’90s cult classic is peak Tarantino.
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Festivals

France – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Léa Seydoux plays a TV journalist in Bruno Dumont’s satire-of-sorts about France’s relationship with its media and itself.
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Festivals

Nitram – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Justin Kurzel’s difficult drama about a notorious mass murderer falls into familiar pitfalls of the true crime genre.