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Sundown – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Mex­i­can cine-sadist Michel Fran­co returns with anoth­er craven­ly bleak dra­ma about life as a pageant of eter­nal suffering.
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Last Night in Soho – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Edgar Wright’s live­ly Lon­don-set gial­lo, star­ring Anya Tay­lor-Joy and Thomasin McKen­zie, fails to deliv­er on its fas­ci­nat­ing premise.
Four people posing on a red carpet, two women and two men. The women are wearing bold, patterned dresses, and the men are in formal suits.
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Official Competition – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Big laughs and sear­ing insights into the artis­tic process pow­er this high­ly enjoy­able film world satire.
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Il Buco – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This unique jour­ney to the cen­tre of the earth is a stun­ning high­light of the 2021 Venice Film Festival.
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True Things – first-look review

by Steph Green

Har­ry Wootliff’s fol­low up to 2018’s Only You focus­es on a rela­tion­ship so tox­ic it’s almost radioactive.
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The Lost Daughter – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Olivia Col­man dis­plays her dark side in Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal’s sun-bleached psy­chodra­ma about moth­er­hood in crisis.
Two people wearing outdoor clothing and gear in a desert landscape with mountains in the background.
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Dune – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met brings a com­mand­ing cen­tral pres­ence to this stir­ring new adap­ta­tion of Frank Herbert’s ​‘Dune’.
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Spencer – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Kris­ten Stew­art excels in this psy­cho­log­i­cal por­trait of Princess Diana, but a heavy-hand­ed script lets things down.
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The Card Counter – first-look review

by David Jenkins

It’s Taxi Dri­ver with pok­er chips in Paul Schrader’s phe­nom­e­nal­ly enter­tain­ing exis­ten­tial thriller.
Three people, a young man and two older adults, sitting together on a motorcycle at night.
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The Hand of God – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Pao­lo Sor­renti­no gets per­son­al in this hit-and-miss tale of a world-famous foot­baller and a filmmaker’s cre­ative birth.