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In Praise Of

Was Crumb right?

by Soham Gadre

As Terry Zwigoff's documentary about the stubbornly underground comic artist Robert Crumb turns 30, we consider his scepticism regarding the intersection of art and capitalism.
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Acting Up

The quiet intensity of Lee Kang Sheng’s gaze

by Terry Nguyen

Through his collaborations with Tsai Ming Liang and new work with Constance Tsang and Yeo Siew Hua, Lee Kang Sheng has created a remarkable body of work.
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Review

Thunderbolts* review – the best Marvel film in a while

by Fatima Sheriff

There's a lot of superficial fun to be had with this superhero romp, which hasn’t been the case in the MCU for a long while.

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In Retrospect
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Psychlo killer: Battlefield Earth 25 years on

by Liam Murphy

Scientology's spectacular flop went down in history for all the wrong reasons. A quarter-century on, what went wrong?
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Review

Until Dawn review – an insulting parade of tedium

by Esther Rosenfield

David F Sandberg's tangentially related adaptation of Supermassive Games' horror hit forgets what made its video game source material so great.

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Pretend it’s a video game: How films emulate gaming mechanics

by Daniel Schindel

As a (very loose) adaptation of Until Dawn hits cinemas, it's worth investigating the successful – and unsuccessful – attempts to explore what it feels like to play a video game on the big screen.
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Review

The Accountant 2 review – tonally wild and uneven but oddly sweet

by Hannah Strong

Ben Affleck's autistic hitman with a gift for numbers returns in Gavin O'Connor's mismatched action thriller.

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Review

Julie Keeps Quiet review – a slick, steely piece of storytelling

by David Jenkins

A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.

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Bodies, Babies and Birth Control in April and All We Imagine as Light

by Anna McKibbin

At a time when access to birth control and abortion is banned, restricted or under threat around the world, work by Dea Kulumbegashvili and Payal Kapadia highlights the necessity of safe options for pregnant people.
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Review

Cloud review – all-time bleakest episode of Only Fools and Horses

by Josh Slater-Williams

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest treads similar thematic territory to his prescient 2001 cyberhorror, through the prism of an e-commerce, vengeance-fuelled thriller.

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