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Review

Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

by Charles Bramesco

Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine pootles around California with the Beach Boys legend in Brent Wilson’s lacklustre documentary.

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Two people, a man in a grey top and a woman in a yellow top, interacting outdoors in front of a building with columns.
Review

A Journal for Jordan

by Marina Ashioti

Denzel Washington’s fourth directorial effort is a story of love, loss and sacrifice told through the journal of Charles Monroe King.

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Festivals

Claire Denis, Peter Strickland and Andrew Dominik will present new films at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival

by Hannah Strong

A lowkey but interesting line-up comprises the selection for Berlinale’s 72nd edition.
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Review

Cicada

by Marina Ashioti

A bookstore meet-cute leads to a transformative relationship for two gay men in Matthew Fifer and Kieran Mulcare’s drama.

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In Retrospect
A woman in a black dress sitting on a chaise lounge, while a man in a dark coat stands nearby in a dimly lit room.
Review

Nightmare Alley

by Leila Latif

The great Guillermo del Toro returns with this deliciously-dark tale of a circus huckster who takes things too far.

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Incoming

See Sidney Poitier in rare behind-the-scenes photos from In the Heat of the Night

by Charles Bramesco

They’re part of Park Circus and MGM’s upcoming Poitier tribute, which includes screenings of the film.
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Competitions

Post a cinematic ode to your mother and win a signed Pedro Almodóvar poster

by Little White Lies

Celebrate Pedro Almodóvar’s astonishing new film Parallel Mothers with our latest creative competition.
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Home Ents

Discover the trippy, transgressive pleasures of Mario Bava’s swansong

by Anton Bitel

The Italian genre maestro’s final film, 1977’s Shock, is a haunted house horror quite unlike any other.
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In Praise Of

The exquisite sound of nature in the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

by William Stottor

The Thai master creates transportive cinema, fully utilising the auditory experience that natural spaces provide.
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Trailers

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi arranges a yearning triptych in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

by Charles Bramesco

The other half of the Japanese director’s 2021 double feature is coming to the UK at last.