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Festivals

Venice Film Festival 2019: the awards

by David Jenkins

As Lucrecia Martel’s jury deliver their verdict, here’s a rundown of all who won the big prizes on the Lido this year.
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Festivals

Rialto – first look review

by Tom Bond

Pete Mackie Burns’ first rate follow-up to Daphne explores the repressed homosexuality of a shy dock worker.
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Babyteeth – first look review

by David Jenkins

Shannon Murphy’s eloquent comic debut offers a unique take on terminal illness and drug addiction.
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About Endlessness – first look review

by David Jenkins

The great Swede Roy Andersson concentrates his style to its tragicomic essence – with spectacular results.
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The Painted Bird – first look review

by David Jenkins

Mass walk-outs greeted this gruelling but brilliant literary epic about a young lad’s journey through hell.
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The King – first look review

by Stephanie Watts

Timothée Chalamet sports a crown and a bowl cut as King Henry V in David Michôd’s sombre historical drama.
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Citizen K – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

Documentary legend Alex Gibney investigates the current state of Russia through the story of fallen oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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Wasp Network – first look review

by David Jenkins

Olivier Assayas delivers a ripping modern spy movie which peels back the layers of espionage and counterespionage in Castro’s Cuba.
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The Laundromat – first look review

by David Jenkins

Steven Soderbergh’s playfully ironic take on the 2015 Panama Papers scandal is a slight but enjoyable diversion.
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Joker – first look review

by David Jenkins

Todd Phillips’ wannabe edgy comic book origin story falls flat on every conceivable level.