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The silence and the fury of Steve McQueen’s Grenfell

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The artist, film­mak­er and activist has pro­duced one of his most pow­er­ful works ever in this metic­u­lous 24-minute sur­vey of a Lon­don crime scene.
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Review

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

An elder­ly man begins a remark­able jour­ney after dis­cov­er­ing that a for­mer col­league has ter­mi­nal can­cer in Het­tie Mac­don­ald’s adap­ta­tion of Rachel Joyce’s best-sell­ing novel.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Loving Highsmith

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Eva Viti­ja’s thought­ful doc­u­men­tary is a mea­sured look at a sin­gu­lar, enig­mat­ic lit­er­ary voice.

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In Retrospect
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Interviews

Laura Poitras: ‘I hope the audience comes out with a different perspective on the world’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er reflects on her rela­tion­ship with Nan Goldin and the ways in which art can serve as a ves­sel for activism.
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Not Movies

Paul Mescal is animated by hatred in A Streetcar Named Desire

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A new pro­duc­tion at the Almei­da The­atre looks to com­ple­ment – rather that com­pete with – Mar­lon Bran­do’s icon­ic per­for­mance in Elia Kazan’s film.
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Interviews

Don Hertzfeldt on It’s Such a Beautiful Day at 10

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A dia­logue with the hum­ble, per­spi­ca­cious and very fun­ny direc­tor of one of the film mas­ter­pieces of the 21st century.
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Not Movies

Reckoning with the ghoulish visual spectacle of the Queen’s funeral

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sophie Monks Kauf­man reflects on the cin­e­mat­ic ele­ments and pomp and cir­cum­stance sur­round­ing the funer­al of Queen Eliz­a­beth II.
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Festivals

Mother and Son – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Léonor Ser­raille comes good with her nov­el­is­tic sec­ond fea­ture about an immi­grant fam­i­ly fight­ing for sur­vival in France.
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Festivals

Scarlet – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Pietro Mar­cel­lo adapts Alexan­der Grin’s fairy tale about a pover­ty-strick­en fam­i­ly with breath­tak­ing results.
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Review

The Lost Daughter

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Olivia Col­man deliv­ers an act­ing mas­ter­class in this off-kil­ter psy­chodra­ma from first-time direc­tor Mag­gie Gyllenhaal.

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In Retrospect