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Audrey Diwan’s L’Événement wins the Golden Lion at Venice 2021

by David Jenkins

The sear­ing French takes home the top prize, plus all the oth­er win­ners from this year’s awards ceremony.
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Dashcam – first-look review

by Erin Brady

Rob Savage’s fol­low-up to Host is a ter­ri­fy­ing yet frus­trat­ing expe­ri­ence about social media narcissism.
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The Last Duel – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Appeal­ing turns from Ben Affleck and Jodie Com­er can’t save Rid­ley Scott’s bloat­ed his­tor­i­cal epic.
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Dear Evan Hansen – first-look review

by Corey Atad

Ben Platt stars as a high-school­er whose white lie snow­balls out of con­trol in Stephen Chbosky’s dis­mal adap­ta­tion of the smash-hit musical.
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Why Sarah Maldoror remains one of cinema’s greatest revolutionaries

by Pamela Hutchinson

The late film­mak­er and poet was a pio­neer of anti-colo­nial cin­e­ma, whose cry for free­dom still res­onates today.
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Old Henry – first-look review

by Steph Green

Pot­sy Ponciroli’s defi­ant­ly old school oater is a mod­est treat with a barn­storm­ing turn from Tim Blake Nelson.
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The 2021 BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced

by Adam Woodward

This year’s LFF pro­gramme com­pris­es 39 per cent female and 40 per cent eth­ni­cal­ly diverse directors/​creators.
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Ana Lily Amir­pour returns with a blissed-out, tech­no-pow­ered riff on the time-hon­oured super­hero movie.
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L’Événement – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Audrey Divan’s lac­er­at­ing and nec­es­sary dra­ma fol­lows a young stu­dent seek­ing a clan­des­tine abor­tion in 1960s France.
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Lost Illusions – first-look review

by Adam Solomons

Xavier Giannoli’s pris­tine adap­ta­tion of Balzac’s ​‘Illu­sions Per­dues’ is a raunchy romp through post-Rev­o­lu­tion France.