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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
Two men in period attire - one in a blue cap, the other in a cowboy hat - stand next to a vintage car in a rural setting.
Review

Sinners review – links the past and present with music and blood

by Kambole Campbell

Final­ly free from the Mar­vel machine, Ryan Coogler deliv­ers the goods and then some with his music-pow­ered, genre-splic­ing latest.

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5
In Retrospect
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Review

Memoir of a Snail – a stop-motion marvel with a dark heart

by David Jenkins

The life of a snail-fix­at­ed lon­er plays out as a series of dis­as­ters in this stri­dent­ly emo­tion­al ani­mat­ed fea­ture from Aus­tralian film­mak­er, Adam Elliot.

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3
In Retrospect
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Review

Bird review – a magical, energetic marvel

by Hannah Strong

Social and mag­i­cal real­ism merge in Andrea Arnold’s scin­til­lat­ing Thames Estu­ary fable about the friend­ship between a latchkey kid and a smil­ing wan­der­er search­ing for home.

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5
In Retrospect
Three people, two women and one man, seated on a boat, looking out over water.
Review

Past Lives review – unravels as a marvel

by Rafa Sales Ross

Celine Song’s fea­ture debut is a ten­der explo­ration of mul­ti­eth­nic romance, com­pli­ment­ed by nuanced per­for­mances from Gre­ta Lee and John Magaro.

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4
In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

Why I love the train chase scene in The Wrong Trousers

by Eleanor Brady

Tom Cruise and Mar­vel can’t hold a can­dle to Aard­man Ani­ma­tion’s nail-bit­ing stop ani­ma­tion sequence in the clas­sic Wal­lace and Gromit adventure.
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Festivals

Close Your Eyes – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The long-await­ed return of Span­ish film­mak­er Vic­tor Erice is a slow-burn mar­vel which cli­max­es in a sequence of over­whelm­ing pro­fun­di­ty and mystery.
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Review

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

by Jake Cole

Scott Lang and his pint-sized fam­i­ly of heroes face off against Kang the Con­quer­er in this lat­est unin­spir­ing Mar­vel outing.

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In Retrospect
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Incoming

A new season at the BFI Southbank showcases the marvels of Afrofuturism

by Charles Bramesco

In the Black Fan­tas­tic explores racial iden­ti­ty through mythol­o­gy, sci­ence-fic­tion, and the supernatural.
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Review

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

by Hannah Strong

Direc­tor Sam Rai­mi injects some much need­ed per­son­al­i­ty into Marvel’s lat­est brand-build­ing exercise.

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