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Once a lone bounty hunter, Mandalorian Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu embark on an exciting new Star Wars adventure.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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The film that fate helped make a classic: The Misfits
It had Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. It was directed by John Huston from a script by Arthur Miller. But all that alone might not have been enough to make The Misfits an enduringly fascinating film. Tragic destiny played its part too…
By Geoff Andrew
Bitter Christmas: Pedro Almodóvar makes himself the butt of the joke in a slippery meta drama
By Jessica Kiang
Reservoir Cops: Quentin Tarantino on The Rip
By Quentin Tarantino
10 great Brazilian films directed by women
By Rafa Sales Ross
Minotaur: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s beautifully sinister Chabrol adaptation dissects Russian authoritarianism
By Jessica Kiang
The Marilyn moment: Monroe at 100
By Farran Smith Nehme
Emeric Pressburger’s screening room pass for the UFA film studios in pre-Nazi Germany
By Melanie Williams
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