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Features

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Festivals

Baby Invasion – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Har­mo­ny Korine’s sec­ond fea­ture since start­ing his cre­ative agency EDGLRD is some­how more shal­low and tedious than the last.
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Festivals

Trois Amies – first-look review

by Yasmine Kandil

A group of friends nav­i­gate the intri­ca­cies of their rela­tion­ship when one faces a dev­as­tat­ing loss in Emmanuel Mouret’s med­i­ta­tion on the nature of love.
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Festivals

Babygirl – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Hali­na Rei­jn’s smart, sexy and dark­ly fun­ny psy­chodra­ma sees Nicole Kid­man and Har­ris Dick­in­son go toe-to-toe as a CEO and an intern who become embroiled in a com­plex illic­it affair.
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Festivals

Disclaimer – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Alfon­so Cuarón’s lim­it­ed series star­ring Cate Blanchett as a famous doc­u­men­tar­i­an with a dark secret is a sur­pris­ing show­case for Kevin Kline.
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Festivals

Kill the Jockey – first-look review

by Anahit Behrooz

A down-on-his-luck jock­ey sees a chance to rein­vent him­self in Luis Orte­ga’s wacky black comedy.
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Festivals

Maria – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Angeli­na Jolie has nev­er been bet­ter as the leg­endary opera singer Maria Callas, cap­tured in the final week of her life by Pablo Lar­raín’s ele­gant bio­graph­i­cal drama.
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Why I Love...

Why A Matter of Life and Death is my favourite coming-of-age film

by Bella Madge

Although Pow­ell and Press­burg­er’s 1946 fan­tas­ti­cal war romance might not be the first film that springs to mind as a bil­dungsro­man, it offers a pow­er­ful guid­ing sentiment.
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Exhibitions

A new exhibition shows off the invisible processes behind stop motion

by Kambole Campbell

LAIKA’s Frame x Frame exhi­bi­tion is a com­pact but detailed deep dive into how the stu­dio approach­es the mechan­ics of the medium.
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When there’s no clear path into the film industry, create your own

by Shelby Cooke

Estab­lished dur­ing the 2020 pan­dem­ic, Film East is a col­lec­tive of glob­al movie lovers who have come togeth­er to write and screen work they’re pas­sion­ate about. Their founder shares how it all began.
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Festivals

The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend highlights the infinite possibilities of documentary

by Marina Ashioti

Fea­tur­ing films by Joan­na Arnow and Miryam Charles, the inau­gur­al Cre­ative Non­fic­tion Film Week­end at Lon­don’s Gen­e­sis Cin­e­ma cel­e­brates all the strange and cre­ative forms that doc­u­men­tary films can take.