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Define Auteur: In defence of Under the Cherry Moon

Mere weeks later and only one week into shooting, director Mary Lambert (who had been brought in to replace Ross)

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Scary Movie review – belated return of the…

Like an irksome stinging insect nonetheless vital to controlling excess animal population, the Scary Movie franchise serves a worthy function in

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Tuner review – woefully off-key

Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993);

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Hacks was always a love story

Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks

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Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at…

The end of the war does not produce liberation, but merely transforms one unstable political condition into another. The final

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The End of It – first-look review

Despite an intriguing sci-fi premise, Maria Martínez Bayona’s feature debut is a tonally mismatched and unintentionally comedic slog. As tradition

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Summer Drift – first-look review

God forbid a woman have hobbies: What suspense there is in Summer Drift, a charming French-language Swiss hybrid doc, comes from whether

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Gentle Monster – first-look review

Four years ago, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer went from the high of a Cannes Film Festival full of rave reviews of

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The Christophers review – a brilliant showcase…

When we first meet Ian McKellen’s Julian Sklar, he’s lit by a ring light as he records Cameos in front of

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Has streaming killed Star Wars?

In a 2023 interview, Liam Neeson, who played Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jin in The Phantom Menace, chalked up his disillusionment with the