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Features

Two armed military personnel in combat gear standing next to an armoured vehicle.
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Jake Gyllenhaal takes on the Taliban in the first trailer for The Covenant

by Charles Bramesco

In Guy Ritchie’s new thriller, a soldier must fight his way through Afghanistan to rescue the interpreter who saved his life.
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The Oscar Goes To...

Why Inu-Oh deserves the Oscar for Best Production Design

by Kambole Campbell

Masaaki Yuasa’s animated epic is more than worthy of consideration beyond the narrow restrictions of the ​‘Best Animated Feature’ category.
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Festivals

Ten highlights from the 2023 Rotterdam Film Festival

by David Jenkins

A few top picks from the big and brassy return of the Dutch mainstay, its first in-person gathering in three years.
Black and white fanzine covers for "Alice Through the Looking Glass" featuring silhouetted figures and typographic elements.
Interviews

Alice Diop: ‘A fictional space could reveal my point of view’

by Leila Latif

The filmmaker behind the remarkable Saint Omer explains how her own experience informed the creation of her intimate legal drama.
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How blockbuster eco-disaster films impact our relationship with climate change

by Finlay van der Vossen

Do these films which imagine the ramifications of a future climate disaster help or hinder our real-world conservation efforts?
Exterior of a movie theatre complex with marquees and signage for "The Book in Room with Tommy" and "London's Best Cinema".
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Want to see a new movie for a pound?

by Charles Bramesco

In an unusual distribution scheme, Marcus Markou’s film The Wife and Her House Husband can be seen in cinemas for a quid.
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Festivals

You Hurt My Feelings – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Nicole Holofcener reteams with Julia Louis-Dreyfus for a gentle comedy about a writer who discovers her husband doesn’t like her work.
A man carrying a young child down a street lined with colourful buildings and a grassy area.
Festivals

Scrapper – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A recently bereaved 12-year-old girl is forced to reconnect with her absent father in Charlotte Regan’s charming feature debut.
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Festivals

Landscape With Invisible Hand – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Cory Finley returns with an eccentric sci-fi dramedy about a pair of teenagers who scheme to livestream their relationship for a curious extra-terrestrial audience.
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Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar-nominated role is just one part of a banner year

by Charles Bramesco

Her turns in Please Baby Please, Matilda, and even Amsterdam show off a chameleonic range.