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Review

Don’t Look Up

by Hannah Strong

Leonar­do DiCaprio and Jen­nifer Lawrence tack­le a cli­mate emer­gency in Adam McKay’s uneven, star-stud­ded dramedy.

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Review

The Prom

by Emily Maskell

Ryan Murphy’s star-stud­ded restag­ing of the hit Broad­way musi­cal hits all the right notes.

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4
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Review

The Laundromat

by David Jenkins

Stephen Soder­bergh assem­bles an all-star cast to sift through the wreck­age of the 2015 Pana­ma Papers leak.

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Review

The Post

by Charles Bramesco

Steven Spiel­berg recounts the sto­ry of the Pen­ta­gon Papers – with one eye on Don­ald Trump – in this strange­ly unsat­is­fy­ing polit­i­cal drama.

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Review

Florence Foster Jenkins

by David Jenkins

Stephen Frears par­lays the fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ry of this war­bling song­bird into a cosy, feath­erlight comedy.

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Review

Into the Woods

by Adam Woodward

A sing-a-long review of this delight­ful screen adap­ta­tion of Stephen Sondheim’s clas­sic musical.

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Review

The Deer Hunter (1978)

by David Jenkins

Mao! Mao! Mao! Michael Cimi­no invites hor­rif­ic ​’Nam flash­backs in his gru­elling ​’78 opus.

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In Retrospect