Janelle Monáe

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.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

By David Jenkins

Benoit Blanc enters the canon of iconic movie characters with Rian Johnson’s second foray into whodunit (nu-dunit?) territory.

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Harriet

By Katie Goh

This origin story of an American hero, starring Cynthia Erivo, is rendered as a bland adventure yarn.

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Harriet – first look review

By Katie Goh

Cynthia Erivo is superb in this otherwise sketchy and underpowered biopic of rebel slave, Harriet Tubman.

Welcome to Marwen

By Adam Woodward

Robert Zemeckis and Steve Carell bring heart and humour to the story of Mark Hogancamp, but offer little insight.

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