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The Substance review – as shallow as the very thing it’s critiquing

by Hannah Strong

Coralie Fargeat’s supposed satire on Hollywood’s impossible standards for women is an ultimately unpleasant and ugly screed against those that try to play the game.

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Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

by David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

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Drive-Away Dolls review – a future midnight screening staple

by Esther Rosenfield

Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in a delightfully daffy road movie, written by Ethan Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke.

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Stars at Noon

by Jourdain Searles

Claire Denis adapts Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel about love in a time of revolution, with fascinating results.

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My New York Year

by David Jenkins

An aspiring writer forms an unlikely connection with JD Salinger in this ’90s set literary drama.

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Death Note

by Elena Lazic

Adam Wingard strips a classic manga story of its cultural relevance in this regrettable adaptation.