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Festivals

Titane – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Julia Ducournau’s sensational second feature offers an intoxicating mix of grease, gore and gasoline.
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Festivals

A Hero – first-look review

by Adam Solomons

Asghar Farhadi’s exceptional Iran-centred drama is a soulful reflection on the morality of crime.
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Festivals

Petrov’s Flu – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Kirill Serebrennikov’s delirious latest offers a strikingly singular vision of life in post-Soviet Russia.
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Festivals

Deception – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Arnaud Desplechin judiciously adapts Philip Roth’s verbose 1990 novel about an adulterous author.
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Festivals

Where Is Anne Frank? – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Ari Folman’s animated retelling of the wartime diarist’s tragic story falls foul of some questionable artistic license.
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Festivals

Bergman Island – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A masterful dissection of love, memory and autobiography from the ever-wonderful French maestro, Mia Hansen-Løve.
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Festivals

The French Dispatch – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Wes Anderson’s star-studded, multi-chaptered tribute to The New York is his most impressionistic work to date.
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Who decided independent cinemas are worth 2.8%?

by Daisy Bata

The UK government’s Culture Recovery Fund has disproportionately favoured larger cultural and media institutions.
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Incoming

Tilda Swinton goes on a sensory journey in the first Memoria trailer

by Charles Bramesco

She embarks on an existential quest in the latest feature from Thai great Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
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Festivals

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Oliver Stone is at his most conspiracy-minded in this entertaining but outlandish doc on the JFK assassination.