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Review

Kill review – a bumpy ride along parallel tracks of heroism and villainy

by Anton Bitel

A young man sets out to save his true love and ends up caught in a bloody battle aboard a train in Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s riotous actioner.

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Review

Despicable Me 4 review – a paper-thin fourquel

by David Jenkins

Another chunk of glossy, silly content rolls out for the Steve Carell-fronted behemoth animation franchise.

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Review

Orlando, My Political Biography review – a dive into the collective trans consciousness

by Esmé Holden

Spanish philosopher Paul B Preciado makes his feature documentary debut with an innovative homage to Virginia Woolf’s seminal 1928 novel.

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Review

The Nature of Love review – cinematic and exuberant

by Josh Slater-Williams

A university professor’s life is turned upside down when she falls in love with a construction worker in Monia Chokri’s understated romantic comedy.

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Review

MaXXXine review – it kinda suxxx

by David Jenkins

Mia Goth’s porn starlet cleans up her CV with a bloody vengeance in this underwhelming and overreaching horror threequel.

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Interviews

Margaret Qualley and Mamadou Athie: ‘A Yorgos film is much more dreamy and surreal when you’re in it’

by Hannah Strong

Two relative newcomers to Team Lanthimos reflect on learning to trust the process.
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Interviews

Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau: ‘The meaning comes in the doing’

by Hannah Strong

Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau lay out the particulars of Yorgos Lanthimos’s method with actors.
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Podcast

Kinds of Kindness | A Quiet Place: Day One | Short Cuts (1993)

This week on LWLies’ own David Jenkins and Hannah Strong return to discuss the subject of their latest issue,Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness. We also dive into the pleasant surprise that is A Quiet Place Day One and for film club revisit Robert Altman’s Short Cuts.
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Review

A Quiet Place: Day One review – cat’s entertainment

by Hannah Strong

A feline steals the show in Michael Sarnowski’s serviceable entry into the sound-focused horror franchise.

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Interviews

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons: ‘Is Yorgos okay with us giving away the secrets?’

by Hannah Strong

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons attempt to decipher the codes and meanings in Kinds of Kindness.