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Cinema trips in the movies: The good, the bad and the ugly

by Rachel Brook

With trips to the pictures taking centre stage in a spate of recent films, it’s a good time to look at the meta art of cinema-going on screen.
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Festivals

Eileen – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Thomasin McKenzie plays a repressed prison worker who becomes infatuated with a female colleague in William Oldroyd’s take on Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel.
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Interviews

Laura Poitras: ‘I hope the audience comes out with a different perspective on the world’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The documentary filmmaker reflects on her relationship with Nan Goldin and the ways in which art can serve as a vessel for activism.
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Festivals

Fair Play – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor play a young couple clawing their way up the corporate ladder in Chloe Domont’s dour thriller.
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The Oscar Goes To...

Why Pete Davidson should win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar

by Ella Kemp

His turn as the vapid, insecure David in Bodies Bodies Bodies proves there’s more to Davidson than tabloid headlines and Saturday Night Live skits.
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Festivals

Magazine Dreams – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Jonathan Majors delivers a blistering performance as an amateur bodybuilder on the brink in Elijah Bynum’s aching but underwritten drama.
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Not Movies

Poker Face is a pleasurable throwback to the golden age of television

by Annie Berke

Rian Johnson’s ​“howcatchem” villain-of-the-week series sees Natasha Lyonne take on the mantel of an unconventional gumshoe with delightful results.
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Festivals

Glasgow Film Festival has lined up a cavalcade of premieres for 2023

by Charles Bramesco

Adura Onashile’s debut Girl will open the fest, and Nida Manzoor’s Polite Society will close it out.
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Incoming

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the pack of nominations for an unpredictable Oscars

by Charles Bramesco

All Quiet on the Western Front and the Banshees of Inisherin also came up big in this morning’s announcement.
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Festivals

Cat Person – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Based on Kristen Roupenian’s much-lauded 2017 short story, this twisted tale of gender politics is a major letdown in conception and execution.