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This Just In

Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of Stanley Kubrick

by Marshall Shaffer

Kubrickian echoes reverberate throughout the Greek filmmaker’s oeuvre. With Bugonia, those connections are shaped into a singular package that transcends the sum of its homages.
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Review

Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton has never been better

by Laura Venning

Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar evoke the melancholy and grandeur of Terrence Malick in their adaptation of Denis Johnson’s best-selling novella.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Interviews

Lynne Ramsay: ‘I love pushing people as far as I can’

by Hannah Strong

One of Britain’s most iconic and beloved directors on her striking new film, Die My Love, and why she is drawn to extreme material.
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Review

Belén review – a superior femme-focused legal thriller from Argentina

by David Jenkins

Dolores Fonzi channels Pedro Almodóvar in this taut, true-life tale of a woman who is wrongly arrested while in hospital.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Die My Love review – Lynne Ramsay articulates the inarticulate

by Hannah Strong

Lynne Ramsay finds a kindred spirit in Jennifer Lawrence, joining forces for a blistering portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

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Anticipation
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5
In Retrospect
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Review

Anemone review – Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to the screen is a dour slog

by David Jenkins

There are some moments of pure magic in Ronan Day-Lewis’s directorial debut, but a tone of perpetual glumness doesn’t make for a fun time at the movies.

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2
In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns

by Esmé Holden

Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification.
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Review

Dragonfly review – comes tumbling down in a clumsy final act

by Emily Maskell

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shine in this ultimately frustrating work of social realism from British writer/​director Paul Andrew Williams.

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In Retrospect
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Interviews

Guillermo del Toro: ‘The world breaks your heart, but you carry on’

by Hannah Strong

Going face to face writer/​director Guillermo del Toro to find out what it’s like to finally create the film he has always wanted to make.
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Interviews

Yemi Bamiro on the making of Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story

by Farah Sadek

The documentary filmmaker breathes life and love into this doc on the trailblazing photographer who helped to define the aesthetics of the ​“Black is Beautiful” movement.

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