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Film of the week: The Brand New Testament

God, bothered: His daughter clears out the cobwebs in Belgian fabulist Jaco Van Dormael’s puckish world-makeover fantasy, notes Leigh Singer.

Leigh Singer
Friday 15 April 2016

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Film of the week: Midnight Special

Star boy: Jeff Nichols puts a spare, plaintive mark on this 80s-style chase movie-scifi hybrid, says Kate Stables.

Kate Stables
Friday 8 April 2016

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Jessica Jones: the antihero we need

Marvel’s TV series brings us the superhero as super survivor, says Charlotte Richardson Andrews.

Charlotte Richardson Andrews
Friday 1 April 2016

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Film of the week: Victoria

Rave and fall for a Spaniard in Berlin: Sebastian Schipper’s propulsive drama shoots a long night of the soul in one long take, says Lisa Mullen.

Lisa Mullen
Thursday 31 March 2016

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Film of the week: The Club

Pablo Larraín’s festering drama imagines the limbo on earth in which the Catholic Church hides its priests of ill-repute, says Tony Rayns.

Tony Rayns
Friday 25 March 2016

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Toon of the Month: Pineapple Calamari

Chris Robinson on Kasia Nalewajka’s surrealist portrait of grief at the races, as extraordinary as Vertigo crossed with Creature Comforts.

Chris Robinson
Friday 25 March 2016

Bytes
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Review: Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice

Might trumps right, at indomitable length, in Warner Brothers’ latest dim-lit attempt to seed its own superverse, says Kim Newman.

Kim Newman
Thursday 24 March 2016

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Behemoth – first look

From the open-cast mines to the ghost cities beyond: Jordan Cronk reviews “a portrait of modern-day China built from the blood and sweat of its proletariat class”.

Jordan Cronk
Thursday 17 March 2016

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Film of the week: The Pearl Button

Maria Delgado embraces the contemplative poetry of Patricio Guzmán’s personal and political journey across the history and psyche of his Chilean homeland, in which water serves as an agent of life, freedom, memory, justice – and their opposites.

Maria Delgado
Thursday 17 March 2016

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Cameraperson – first look

Wayfaring nonfiction cinematographer Kirsten Johnson’s first ‘directed’ credit considers the movie camera as bridge to the world, finds Jordan Cronk.

Jordan Cronk
Monday 14 March 2016

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