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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
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The Marilyn moment: Monroe at 100
During her lifetime, Marilyn Monroe was condescended to by critics, directors and other actors, who too often confused her with the dumb blondes she was asked to play. One hundred years after her birth it's time to put aside the distractions of her beauty and the tragic aspects of her life and consider the knockout moments in her films that illuminate what she really was – a hard-working, gifted and hugely original actress.
By Farran Smith Nehme
Emeric Pressburger’s screening room pass for the UFA film studios in pre-Nazi Germany
By Melanie Williams
Exit 8: in the loop
By Adam Nayman
Where to begin with Ritwik Ghatak
By Sanghita Sen
Enzo: French coming-of-ager is a poignant farewell from director Laurent Cantet
By Guy Lodge
Backrooms: Kane Parsons turns internet mythology into an unsettling and inventive horror
By Kim Newman
Parallel Tales: Asghar Farhadi plays with ideas of artistic voyeurism in a frustratingly opaque French-language drama
By Tara Brady
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