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Features

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Festivals

Inside the South African film festival challenging perceptions of Afrikaans cinema

by John Besche

Now in its eleventh year, Cape Town’s Silwerskermfees aims to shine a light on the diversity and talent at the heart of the Afrikaans-speaking filmmaking community.
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Festivals

A Silence – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Reliable Belgian director Joachim Lafosse serves up more lurid scandal sheet fodder in this dismal tale of a wife and mother trying to sweep her husband’s vile transgressions under the rug.
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Hollywood’s enduring fear of Artificial Intelligence shows no signs of letting up

by Victoria Luxford

As Gareth Edwards’ The Creator storms into cinemas, we trace the film industry’s obsession with the idea that a robot uprising looms on the horizon.
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Festivals

Ex-Husbands – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Amiable American comedy of dented male egos in which Griffin Dunne’s recent divorcee accidentally crashes his son’s bachelor party.
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Festivals

MMXX – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The latest from Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu comprises four salty slices of pandemic-era life which range from the outwardly comic to the overtly grizzly.
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In Praise Of

The enduring joy of Dick Cavett’s Old Hollywood interviews

by Sarah Cleary

Stars including Katherine Hepburn and Gloria Swanson appeared on Dick Cavett’s seminal American talk show – a reminder that the televised interview is something of a lost art.
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In Praise Of

How Saving Private Ryan changed the war movie

by Sam Moore

Twenty-five years on, Steven Spielberg’s World War Two epic completely revolutionised the way Hollywood thought about depicting conflict on screen.
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Interviews

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Chemistry is a mystery’

by Anna Bogutskaya

The Spanish filmmaker reflects on the romance at the heart of his new queer western, Strange Way of Life, and the freedom of working in a shorter format.
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Festivals

Boy Kills World – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

A deaf-mute young man swears revenge on the group that murdered his family in Moritz Mohr’s bloodthirsty but tedious directorial debut.
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Festivals

Dream Scenario – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Nicolas Cage plays an otherwise unremarkable college professor who unexpectedly finds himself appearing in peoples’ dreams in Kristoffer Borgli’s latest satire.