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Features

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Festivals

Disco Boy – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

The stories of a French Foreign Legionnaire and a Nigerian guerrilla fighter converge in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s frustrating feature debut.
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Why Corsage deserves the Best Make-Up & Hairstyling Academy Award

by Alexandria Slater

Helene Lang and Maike Heinlein smartly utilise Sissi’s personal styling to emphasise the ways in which she was repressed and subsequently rebelled.
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Festivals

Manodrome – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Jesse Eisenberg breaks his dweeby typecast as a disenchanted bodybuilder lured into to a men’s rights group in John Trengove’s intriguing thriller.
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Festivals

The Beast in the Jungle – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

Patric Chiha loosely interprets Henry James in this hazy, seductive nightclub-set drama.
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Incoming

Barry Keoghan-mania will continue with a Billy the Kid biopic

by Charles Bramesco

He’ll offer a humanized, revisionist take on the gunslinger of repute in his longstanding dream project.
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Relearning the meaning of life through After Life and After Yang

by Nadila

The work of Hirokazu Koreeda and kogonada encourages us to slow down and reflect on the human experience if we wish to truly understand what it is to be alive.
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Interviews

Elegance Bratton: ‘Growing up, I never saw any Black queer heroes in movies’

by Josh Slater-Williams

The director of The Inspection reflects on the experience of translating his time as a closeted marine into an affecting drama.
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Incoming

Paul King has signed on to direct the Tom Holland-starring Fred Astaire biopic

by Charles Bramesco

At long last, the promise of the ​“Umbrella” lip-sync video shall be delivered upon.
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Why Tár should win the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award

by Justine Smith

Todd Field’s script for the classical music psychodrama is a meticulously crafted exercise in form.
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Why RRR’s success frustrates as much as it excites me

by Rehana Nurmahi

The Tollywood blockbuster has won over global audiences, but I hope western viewers won’t limit their consumption of Indian cinema to one breakout title.