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Features

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Festivals

Marseille Film Festival explores cinema as a medium of escape

by Kitty Grady

A world away from the glitz and glamour of Cannes, another French coastal city aims to build a more inclusive and challenging vision of a film festival.
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Not Movies

The Bear embraces career uncertainty and what it means to find a purpose

by Lucy Carter

As chefs Carmy and Syd grapple with the weight of their own expectations and ambition, their friends struggle to find a vocation at all. This candid approach to the difficulty of finding a purpose feels quietly refreshing in pop culture.
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This Just In

No spoilers please! Are movies tainted by marketing?

by Katie Kasperson

This summer’s most anticipated releases have taken wildly different – and arguably drastic – approaches to promotion. So which do fans prefer?
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Acting Up

The powder keg performances of Cillian Murphy

by Sean Fennell

Throughout his career, the Irish accent has showcased a unique intensity combined with a pull towards characters with deep-set moral conflictions.
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In Praise Of

The hero dies at the beginning: Enter the Dragon at 50

by Micah Nathan

The film that introduced Bruce Lee to the American mainstream was sadly his last – but its power is still palpable five decades later.
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Let’s eat Barbie! A journey through one doll’s wry reinventions

by Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

An exploration of parodies and subversions of the infamous doll’s image, before Greta Gerwig explodes into the tongue-in-cheek canon of Barbie culture.
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Festivals

A journey through the past at Il Cinema Ritrovato

by Esmé Holden

What can a film festival dedicated to the screening of older cinema tell us about the present state of audience engagement with movie watching?
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Opinion

How dyslexia helps some of the biggest filmmakers to think differently

by Louise Conway

Recent studies have shown how people with dyslexia have enhanced abilities in originality, creativity, and reasoning. Could it be that movies can provide the perfect place to focus on the strengths of this different way of thinking?
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Festivals

In Camera – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Naqqash Khalid’s inventive feature debut is a spiky take on navigating the British film industry as a non-white actor and trying to find your identity amid the hostile present day.
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Festivals

The Hypnosis – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A power couple on the brink of pitching their start-up experience unexpected tension after a hypnotherapy session causes one of them to lose all their social inhibitions.