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Dune – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met brings a com­mand­ing cen­tral pres­ence to this stir­ring new adap­ta­tion of Frank Herbert’s ​‘Dune’.
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Spencer – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Kris­ten Stew­art excels in this psy­cho­log­i­cal por­trait of Princess Diana, but a heavy-hand­ed script lets things down.
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The Card Counter – first-look review

by David Jenkins

It’s Taxi Dri­ver with pok­er chips in Paul Schrader’s phe­nom­e­nal­ly enter­tain­ing exis­ten­tial thriller.
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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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The Power of the Dog – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Jane Cam­pi­on doesn’t so much dis­sect mas­culin­i­ty as explode it in her dirt-smudged adap­ta­tion of Thomas Savage’s western.
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Parallel Mothers – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Pedro Almod­ó­var deliv­ers yet anoth­er major late work, with Pené­lope Cruz on career-best form.
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Jane Campion, Paul Schrader head up Venice Film Festival 2021 line-up

by David Jenkins

They’ll be joined by big names and excit­ing new tal­ent, includ­ing Pedro Almod­ó­var, Ana Lily Amir­pour and Pablo Larraín.
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Chloé Zhao, Gia Coppola and Michel Franco head up Venice Film Festival 2020

by Adam Woodward

La Biennale’s 77th edi­tion will go ahead as planned, with one of the festival’s most eclec­tic line-ups in years.
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State Funeral – first look review

by Ed Gibbs

A chill­ing doc on the bizarre spec­ta­cle of the Russ­ian peo­ple griev­ing over the death of Stalin.
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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.