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Despatches from Mumbai Film Festival 2023
By Lou Thomas
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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry: life comes into bloom for a middle-aged shop owner in this gentle Georgian drama
By Arjun Sajip
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget: an endearing second helping of fowl play
By Leigh Singer
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Celluloid Underground: a lyrical tribute to the material beauty of film
By Rebecca Harrison
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Starve Acre: English folk traditions take root in this disturbing horror set in 1970s Yorkshire
By Anton Bitel
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The Holdovers: this high-school heartwarmer is no ordinary throwback
By Philip Kemp
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Earth Mama: an intimate and piercing debut feature
By Kate Stables
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Fallen Leaves star Alma Pöysti on working with Aki Kaurismäki: “Everyone was surprised he made this movie”
By Leigh Singer
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The Bikeriders: a revved-up replay of the outlaw biker movie
By Nick James
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The Royal Hotel: a backpacking adventure turns toxic in Kitty Green’s quiet thriller
By Catherine Wheatley
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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World: Radu Jude’s twisted workplace realities
By Nicolas Rapold
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20 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2023
20 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2023Festivals
Samsara: a transformative sensorial journey
By Ben Nicholson
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All of Us Strangers: Andrew Haigh’s glorious magic-realist meditation on grief
By Ben Walters
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Errol Morris’s richly crafted portrait of John le Carré
By Nick Bradshaw
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Concrete Utopia: a moralising disaster movie
By Sara Merican
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Hit Man: Richard Linklater’s contract killer comedy leaves a refreshingly bitter aftertaste
By Adam Nayman
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Maestro: a superbly acted biopic that’s disappointingly vague on Leonard Bernstein’s music
By Jessica Kiang
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The Beast: Bertrand Bonello’s most ambitious film to date
By Kieron Corless
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Priscilla: Sofia Coppola’s ethereal, interior portrait of Priscilla Presley’s troubled years with Elvis
By Jessica Kiang
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The Boy and the Heron: Miyazaki Hayao’s enchanting fable is bursting with ideas
By Adam Nayman
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Evil Does Not Exist: Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s beguiling ecological drama
By Nicolas Rapold
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The Killer: David Fincher’s normcore assassin unnerves and entertains
By Nicolas Rapold
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Daaaaaali!: it’s as if Luis Buñuel directed a script by Monty Python
By John Bleasdale
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Aggro Dr1ft: Harmony Korine finds new ways to freak us out with his mashed-up media experiment
By Nicolas Rapold
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial: William Friedkin’s final film shows his absolute mastery of his craft
By John Bleasdale
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Poor Things: a film that gives pleasure in every fantastical frame
By Jessica Kiang
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Ferrari: Michael Mann’s family melodrama spends too little time on the track
By John Bleasdale