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Festivals

London Film Festival 2022 opens with Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical

by David Jenkins

Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch star in one of the first big movie announcements of the Autumn festival season.
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Review

Nitram

by Hannah Strong

Director Justin Kurzel renews his obsession with mass murder in this well-acted but problematic retelling of the Port Arthur massacre.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Minions: The Rise of Gru

by David Jenkins

The Minions scarcely feature in this screwball supervillain origin story that’s shamefully short on lols.

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In Retrospect
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Incoming

Lars von Trier checks in for another stay in The Kingdom with the first Exodus trailer

by Charles Bramesco

His TV series set within a hospital coursing with malevolent energy is back for another series.
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Review

The Princess

by Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Ed Perkins’ archive documentary offers fresh insight into the life and legacy of the People’s Princess.

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In Retrospect
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Opinion

How Obvious Child set a new standard for portraying abortion on screen

by Becca Rieckmann

Gillian Robespierre’s 2014 comedy-drama was refreshingly candid – as Roe vs Wade is repealed, it feels even more relevant.
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Festivals

The ghosts of the Transylvania International Film Festival

by Tim Brinkhof

A dispatch from TIFF 2022, and how the past looms large over Romanian film culture.
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Festivals

The BFI’s new Film on Film Festival is a celluloid fetishist’s dream

by Charles Bramesco

The 2023 proceedings will feature a bevy of classics projected on good ol’ 35mm, 16mm, and 70mm.
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In Praise Of

Why I love Kathy Bates’ performance in Misery

by Lucy Vipond

In her breakthrough lead role, Bates plays a reclusive nurse who takes her fandom to horrifying extremes.
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Interviews

Wim Wenders: ‘With restoration, there’s a danger you can falsify the film’

by David Jenkins

The German multi-hyphenate on how he’s future-proofing classics like Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas.