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Two men sitting on bench in changing room with red tiled wall. Left man wears towel, right man in white football shirt.
Review

Saipan review – an enjoyable but featherlight affair

by Hannah Strong

Éanna Hardwicke is magnetic as Roy Keane in this fictionalised account of the infamous feud between the Irish football player and his manager, Mick McCarthy.

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In Retrospect
Two film negatives: left shows footballers on pitch under floodlights, right shows close-up of white football with geometric patterns on grass.
Opinion

The euphoric pleasures of movies and football

by Oscar Aitchison

How attending Brighton and Hove Albion games with my father delivers a similar hit to seeing Jeanne Dielman at the BFI Southbank.
Two men in dark athletic shirts against green and white geometric patterned ceiling, one shouting with mouth open.
Review

Him review – not quite a touchdown

by Leila Latif

An ambitious college football player finds himself drawn into a cult in Justin Tipping’s sports horror.

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Review

Marching Powder review – a proper, proper gaffe

by Adam Woodward

Nick Love and Danny Dyer are back with yet another boorish, small-minded take on the football hooligan genre.

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Home Ents

What to watch at home in June

by Anton Bitel

A maligned VR pioneer, a Powell and Pressburger gem and an Italian football thriller are headed for home ents this month.
Review

Next Goal Wins review – chillingly eager to please

by Mark Asch

Taika Waititi’s feel-good comedy about the plight of a hapless Samoan football team strives for nothing more than maintaining the status quo.

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In Praise Of

Why Shaolin Soccer is the greatest football movie ever made

by Cian Tsang

By combining his signature absurdist style and sincerity with the beautiful game, Stephen Chow created an exhilarating and unconventional sports movie that captures the highs and laws of football.
Review

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

by Caitlin Quinlan

Football provides the common thread for Aleksandre Koberidze’s dreamy drama set on the Rioni river.

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4
In Retrospect
Not Movies

Arsenal: All Or Nothing and the football documentary boom

by Zoheir Beig

As Amazon’s latest Premier League doc airs, how much do these prestige football docs really tell us about the beautiful game?
Festivals

The Hand of God – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Paolo Sorrentino gets personal in this hit-and-miss tale of a world-famous footballer and a filmmaker’s creative birth.

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