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Festivals

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.
Two people - a man in a green jacket and a woman in an orange jumper - sitting at a table in a studio setting with a ladder and various props in the background.
Festivals

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.
Two people, a man and a woman, in a nightclub scene with vibrant blue and red lighting.
Incoming

Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar-nominated role is just one part of a banner year

by Charles Bramesco

Her turns in Please Baby Please, Matilda, and even Amsterdam show off a chameleonic range.
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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.
Two women in red and black outfits conversing, with a man in the background.
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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Review

Plane

by Rafa Sales Ross

Gerard Butler plays a pilot whose plane goes down in a conflict zone in Jean-François Richet’s surprisingly satisfying thriller.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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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.