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Interviews

Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space: A Conversation with Adam Sandler, Paul Dano and Johan Renck

by Hannah Strong

In Johan Renck’s cosmic epic, Adam Sandler and Paul Dano are a lonely astronaut and an ancient spider who form an unlikely friendship. That’s the tip of the iceberg.
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Review

Four Daughters review – successfully bypasses the traps of the gratuitous

by Rafa Sales Ross

The latest documentary from Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania centers a quartet of young women whose lives are changed forever when two of them join ISIS.

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Review

Spaceman review – a moving voyage to the far beyond

by Hannah Strong

Adam Sandler stars as a lonely cosmonaut who befriends a giant, benevolent spider at the edge of the universe in Johan Renck’s spiritual odyssey.

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Club LWLies Exclusive

When pop stars become auteurs

by Anna McKibbin

The visual album is a key, genre-defying vessel for pop music titans transferring the symbolic power of their music to image-making.
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Festivals

Matt and Mara – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A teacher stuck in a rut finds her routine disrupted when an old friend from college reappears.
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Review

Memory review – a frustratingly shallow character study

by Yasmine Kandil

Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard star in Michel Franco’s dour drama about high school classmates who unexpectedly reunite amid painful circumstances.

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Review

Maestro review – as heady and bombastic as a golden-age Hollywood musical

by Lillian Crawford

Bradley Cooper soars in this lovingly crafted biopic of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein.

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Review

Wicked Little Letters review – a flimsy comic farce

by David Jenkins

Olivia Colman is hampered by thin material in this overly-quaint parochial Britcom which contains a fair bit of swearing.

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Review

Perfect Days review – profound simplicity by two cinematic masters

by Hannah Strong

Wim Wenders’ gentle character studies features a beautifully restrained performance from Kôji Yakusho, as a toilet cleaner who lives a simple life in Tokyo.

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Partnership

Nostalgia for the Lights: Wim Wenders’ Tokyo stories

by David Jenkins

How the Oscar-nominated Perfect Days sees the globe-trotting German filmmaker in unison with his surroundings in the Japanese capital.