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Shopping ’til you drop: Paul W.S. Anderson’s anarchic debut at 30

by Fran Bowden

Three decades on from its release, this 90s thriller echoes the disenfranchisement of young people and sensationalisation of shoplifting.
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Pills, thrills and bellyaches: the lost underworld of Human Traffic

by Billie Walker

Twenty five years on from its release, the rave culture of Justin Kerrigan’s ode to doomed youth is all but lost.
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How 10 Things I Hate About You made Shakespeare hot property

by Nadira Begum

25 years ago, Gil Junger’s spiky teen romance reinvented The Taming of the Shrew – and made Shakespeare cool again.
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Why I love Kevin Conroy’s performance in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

by Kevin Bui

The voice actor brought his life experience to the role of the Caped Crusader, and in the process gave us a batman for the ages.
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Why Shaolin Soccer is the greatest football movie ever made

by Cian Tsang

By combining his signature absurdist style and sincerity with the beautiful game, Stephen Chow created an exhilarating and unconventional sports movie that captures the highs and laws of football.
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Green Snake and the search for belonging in a hostile world

by Xuanlin Tham

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Tsui Hark’s take on a Chinese folktale is a breathtaking allegory for our inhospitable world.
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Sadness with Pizzazz: The Saddest Music in the World at 20

by Theo Rollason

Two decades after its release, Guy Maddin’s eccentric Prohibition era satire speaks to a contemporary obsession with corporatising pain.
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Why I love Abbas Kiarostami’s Homework

by Nadine Mamoon

More than three decades after it was made, this landmark work defies classification – a portrait of young people caught between warring countries, attempting to have a typical childhood.
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Michael Bay’s American Nightmare: Bad Boys II at 20

by Olivia Hunter Willke

Two decades on, Michael Bay’s nihilistic, hyper-violent police drama serves as a state of the union address.
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Crisis of faith: The Exorcist at 50

by Greg Cwik

Fifty years since William Friedkin unleashed a demon at the multiplex, the impressive performances of Max von Sydow and Jason Miller are as haunting as ever.

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