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Giant review – another tired boxing biopic for…
It’s nearing a quarter-century since the retirement of “Prince” Naseem Hamed, Sheffield’s world champion boxer of Yemeni heritage. For a while, in…
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Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ira Sachs’ best film…
It’s only a matter of time before kids are doing the Peter (Hujar) Pilgrimage: a leisurely photographer’s stroll down New York’s 2nd…
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Chloé Zhao: ‘There’s a desire for the language of…
The career ascent of writer/director Chloé Zhao has been immense, taking in intimate indie dramas (Songs My Brother Taught Me,…
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Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley could make a stone…
This is a film about what it means to have children and the pulverising consequences that come from potentially losing them…
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Avatar: Fire and Ash review – another James…
Despite its entirely digital construction and sometimes uncanny mix of 24 and 48FPS 3D, Avatar: Fire and Ash is full…
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Coming of age with Rob Reiner
“It was the summer of 1959, a long time ago. But only if you measure it in terms of years.” Richard…
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The 30 best films of 2025
1. One Battle After Another We’ll be honest: in the run-up to the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle…
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Sentimental Value review – moving, sharp and…
Nothing brings a family together like a funeral, and at the wake for Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes’ (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) mother,…
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Joachim Trier: ‘I cling to life’
Crafting a complex portrait of a fraught father-daughter relationship set against a grand dragestil family home in Oslo, Joachim Trier turns to family,…
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Marty Supreme review – Josh Safdie working at a…
I’m really in pursuit of greatness,” Timotheé Chalamet announced in February 2025 while accepting the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for…
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