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Hokum: Damian McCarthy’s horror finds a human story amid all the creepy grotesquerie

A haunted Irish hotel becomes a site of personal reckoning for a haunted man played by Adam Scott in Damian McCarthy’s surreal horror-comedy.

By Anton Bitel

Hokum: Damian McCarthy’s horror finds a human story amid all the creepy grotesquerie

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Surviving Earth: Slavko Sobin is a beguiling presence in this well-crafted debut

By John Bleasdale

Surviving Earth: Slavko Sobin is a beguiling presence in this well-crafted debut

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Wild Foxes: the body keeps the score in this affecting drama about an injured young boxer

By Jason Anderson

Wild Foxes: the body keeps the score in this affecting drama about an injured young boxer

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“A story marshalled with dazzling skill and precision”: All the President’s Men reviewed in 1976

By Richard Combs

“A story marshalled with dazzling skill and precision”: All the President’s Men reviewed in 1976

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Exit 8: a video game turned claustrophobic time-loop horror movie

By Anne Billson

Exit 8: a video game turned claustrophobic time-loop horror movie

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Miroirs No. 3 second look review: a glorious sun dappled noir from Christian Petzold

By Adam Nayman

Miroirs No. 3 second look review: a glorious sun dappled noir from Christian Petzold

Festivals

The Wizard of the Kremlin: a westernised take on Putin’s rise to power

By Travis Jeppesen

The Wizard of the Kremlin: a westernised take on Putin’s rise to power

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Rebuilding: Josh O’Connor delivers a tender performance in this timely story of a rancher set adrift by wildfires

By Kate Stables

Rebuilding: Josh O’Connor delivers a tender performance in this timely story of a rancher set adrift by wildfires

Festivals

The Blue Trail: a senior citizen flees dystopian Brazil for a freewheeling Amazonian adventure

By Sam Wigley

The Blue Trail: a senior citizen flees dystopian Brazil for a freewheeling Amazonian adventure

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Blades of the Guardians: cluttered storytelling overwhelms Yuen Woo-Ping’s wuxia epic

By David West

Blades of the Guardians: cluttered storytelling overwhelms Yuen Woo-Ping’s wuxia epic

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“Funny, engaging and winning in its self-deprecating modesty”: Bridget Jones’s Diary reviewed in 2001

By Leslie Felperin

“Funny, engaging and winning in its self-deprecating modesty”: Bridget Jones’s Diary reviewed in 2001

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The Drama: a slyly funny psychological drama in a neat rom-com disguise

By Kate Stables

The Drama: a slyly funny psychological drama in a neat rom-com disguise

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Kim Novak’s Vertigo: an intimate audience with a candid Hollywood star

By Henry K Miller

Kim Novak’s Vertigo: an intimate audience with a candid Hollywood star

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D is for Distance: a personal, hallucinatory journey through medical bureaucracy

By Nick Bradshaw

D is for Distance: a personal, hallucinatory journey through medical bureaucracy

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Hell freezes over: the Coen brothers on Fargo

By Lizzie Francke

Hell freezes over: the Coen brothers on Fargo

News

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Fuze: a gripping, unpredictable heist thriller that prizes momentum over depth

By Gayle Sequeira

Fuze: a gripping, unpredictable heist thriller that prizes momentum over depth

Festivals

Pompei: Below the Clouds: documentary tribute to Naples is filled with sepulchral melancholy

By Nick James

Pompei: Below the Clouds: documentary tribute to Naples is filled with sepulchral melancholy

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Underland: a visually stunning journey through a subterranean world

By Sarah Fensom

Underland: a visually stunning journey through a subterranean world

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Two Prosecutors: bureaucracy is the enemy in this meticulously crafted USSR-set period drama

By Michael Brooke

Two Prosecutors: bureaucracy is the enemy in this meticulously crafted USSR-set period drama

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George Orwell, film critic

By Jeffrey Meyers

George Orwell, film critic

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Orwell: 2+2=5: Raoul Peck’s portrait of George Orwell dives deep into Nineteen Eighty-Four but finds few new answers

By Abiba Coulibaly

Orwell: 2+2=5: Raoul Peck’s portrait of George Orwell dives deep into Nineteen Eighty-Four but finds few new answers

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Splitsville: this brilliantly unromantic open marriage comedy pulls no punches

By Kate Stables

Splitsville: this brilliantly unromantic open marriage comedy pulls no punches

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Broken English: meta Marianne Faithfull doc is a heartbreaking document of her final performance

By Simran Hans

Broken English: meta Marianne Faithfull doc is a heartbreaking document of her final performance

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Project Hail Mary: Ryan Gosling befriends an alien in a shameless crowd-pleaser

By Henry K Miller

Project Hail Mary: Ryan Gosling befriends an alien in a shameless crowd-pleaser

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Moulin Rouge: “the artiest film ever predicated as a summer blockbuster”

By Graham Fuller

Moulin Rouge: “the artiest film ever predicated as a summer blockbuster”

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Dead Man’s Wire: Bill Skarsgård sticks it to the man in this nuanced period thriller from Gus Van Sant

By Ben Walters

Dead Man’s Wire: Bill Skarsgård sticks it to the man in this nuanced period thriller from Gus Van Sant

Interviews

“How charming it is to make a silent film”: Bi Gan on Resurrection

By David West

“How charming it is to make a silent film”: Bi Gan on Resurrection

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Scarlet: a visually striking but narratively frustrating animated adaptation of Hamlet

By Blake Simons

Scarlet: a visually striking but narratively frustrating animated adaptation of Hamlet

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The Man Who Fell to Earth: humanity, lost and found

By Tom Milne

The Man Who Fell to Earth: humanity, lost and found