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Everything old is new again: archival cinema at London Short Film Festival

by Tahney Fosdike

Archival films and footage pre­sent­ed a rich oppor­tu­ni­ty for film­mak­ers and cura­tors to explore con­tem­po­rary themes and events at this year’s festival.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.