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Master Gardener – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist with a troubled past in Paul Schrader's beautiful but underwhelming drama.

A cavalcade of big names have been tipped for a stuffed Venice Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

Luca Guadagnino, Andrew Dominik, Olivia Wilde, and many others are rumored to be locks for the Lido.

The Stranger – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Thomas M Wright’s atmospheric but underwhelming thriller tells of an elaborate sting operation to catch a killer in Australia.

Barry Jenkins hits the small screen with The Underground Railroad trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In the director’s ambitious Amazon miniseries, the network for escaped slaves takes on a more literal form.

Brady Corbet has cast his ambitious next film The Brutalist

By Charles Bramesco

Mark Rylance, Vanessa Kirby and Marion Cotillard have joined the actor-director’s postwar epic.

Dev Patel is on fire in the new trailer for The Green Knight

By Charles Bramesco

The British star plays Sir Gawain in director David Lowery’s latest, from the A24 stable.

Timothée Chalamet ascends in the first trailer for The King

By Charles Bramesco

He stars with Joel Edgerton and Robert Pattinson in David Michôd’s epic take on Shakespeare.

Boy Erased

By Ella Kemp

Lucas Hedges plays a young man struggling with his sexual identity in this tender drama from director Joel Edgerton.

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Joel Edgerton: ‘On a scale of 1 to 10 this project was Spinal Tap’

By Adam Woodward

The Boy Erased director chats filmmaking, family and his upcoming role in David Michôd’s The King.

Boy Erased – first look review

By Ella Kemp

A mature central performance from Lucas Hedges anchors Joel Edgerton’s gay conversion therapy drama.

Why the gay conversion therapy drama is having a moment

By Jonathan Mahon-Heap

The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Boy Erased find different ways to confront this harmful practice.

Gringo

By Naomi Wong

Nash “Brother of Joel” Edgerton directs this entertaining but lazily scripted Mexican crime caper.

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Red Sparrow

By Elena Lazic

Jennifer Lawrence plays a Soviet spy whose repeated abuse leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

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It Comes at Night

By Elena Lazic

This coldly affecting contagion horror excels in generating a sense of acute dread, but falls short on the story front.

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Blue Collar Blues – Southern identity and disillusionment in the cinema of Jeff Nichols

By Glenn Heath Jr

Each of the Arkansas director’s films addresses pressing social concerns affecting working-class white voters.

25 films to look forward to in 2016

By Little White Lies

Check out this selection of upcoming cinematic treasures we’re excited to see over the next six months.

Loving – first look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Jeff Nichols makes it five-for-five with this gently stirring drama about an interracial couple in ’50s America.

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