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Steven Spielberg returns to the theme of alien visitors with this all-star, much-anticipated blockbuster.
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Inside a 1959 fan magazine for Marilyn Monroe
In her centenary year, look inside a British fan magazine which reveals how Marilyn Monroe was packaged at the height of her fame – balancing the intimate promise of her ‘real’ life with the carefully curated allure of a global icon.
By Tamar Jeffers-McDonald
Time and Water: Iceland’s vanishing glaciers haunt this moving climate essay
By Rachel Pronger
The film that fate helped make a classic: The Misfits
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
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