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The magnificent ’74: The Conversation
Looking back at American cinema’s banner year, fifty years later
By Jessica Kiang
The magnificent ’74: The Conversation
Jessica Kiang
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A Different Man: a discomfiting but darkly hilarious story of a man with two faces
By Jessica Kiang
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Spaceman: Adam Sandler and an alien spider embark on a mission to Jupiter in this dull sci-fi
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Small Things like These: this grimy, moving portrait of 1980s Ireland knows the power of restraint
By Jessica Kiang
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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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Priscilla: Sofia Coppola’s ethereal, interior portrait of Priscilla Presley’s troubled years with Elvis
By Jessica Kiang
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Poor Things: a film that gives pleasure in every fantastical frame
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In Camera: an ambitious showbiz satire
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Small, Slow But Steady: this introspective boxing drama avoids the usual clichés of the genre
By Jessica Kiang
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La Chimera: a joyous, masterful work of folk magic
By Jessica Kiang
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Anatomy of a Fall: a sharply intelligent psychological drama from Justine Triet
By Jessica Kiang
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Martin Scorsese’s latest is an increasingly enthralling true-crime epic
By Jessica Kiang
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Suzume: this beautifully bonkers anime threatens to frazzle the synapses
By Jessica Kiang
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Manodrome: this unedifying portrait of toxic masculinity rings hollow
By Jessica Kiang
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Tótem: a dazzling, vibrant child’s-eye view of jubilation and tragedy
By Jessica Kiang
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BlackBerry: this biting tech-world satire reminds us that we all might be dinosaurs in waiting
By Jessica Kiang
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La Syndicaliste: an oddly flavourless, distractingly shot procedural
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The Whale: a miraculous Brendan Fraser narrowly saves this dolorous dirge
By Jessica Kiang
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The Damned Don’t Cry: a potent Moroccan mother-and-son drama
By Jessica Kiang
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The Listener: a stolid single-location drama
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Argentina 1985: a robust case for the virtues of the traditional courtroom drama
By Jessica Kiang
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Master Gardener: an uncharacteristically hopeful offering from Paul Schrader
By Jessica Kiang
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Padre Pio: no sin deserves the penance of this unholy mess
By Jessica Kiang
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TÁR: a sly, scabrous symphony
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Tommy Guns: a stunning second feature from Carlos Conceição
By Jessica Kiang
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Medusa Deluxe: lather overdone
By Jessica Kiang
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Stone Turtle: a Malaysian Groundhog Day folk tale
By Jessica Kiang
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Pleasure: porn-world pic whose protagonist is less compelling than her milieu
By Jessica Kiang
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The Worst Person in the World captures one woman’s late-twenties in a swirl of sunsets, cigarettes and sunrises
By Jessica Kiang