Movies
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Tony review – a breezy biopic with little bite
Living in a cruel dystopia where the most commercially successful film biopic of all time is a wan apologia for Michael Jackson’s…
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One Night Only review – smash your parts…
“The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion,” wrote George Orwell, envisioning the dystopian kibosh put on human spirit by the…
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Bouchra review – idiosyncratic furry cinema
Within the growing tradition of films about making films, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani have carved out a distinctive emotional landscape…
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Venus as a Boy: Pink Narcissus at 55
“Unfortunately, I’m addicted to dreaming,” James Bidgood said in a 2010 interview with Butt Magazine when describing his relationship with fantasy.…
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Love Me Tender review – quietly devastating…
Some films ask to be watched; Love Me Tender asks to be felt. Anna Cazenave Cambet’s quietly devastating adaptation of Constance…
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The Summer Book review – dismally cosy
This film is aimed at a very specific niche of Tove Jansson fandom – it’s for an elite tier who aren’t…
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Behind the Window Display: Cinema’s Desperate…
The first time we see Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire in Backrooms, the furniture store owner squints his eyes at the front…
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In Praise of Hiroshi Teshigahara: Surveyor of the Abyss
As The Face of Another turns 60, the Japanese New Wave director’s cinematic battlegrounds of alienation, exploitation and fractured identity…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – slavish fan…
Will Tom Holland, who we just saw struggling to live up to his father’s legacy in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, ever grow…
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Fleabag at 10: A Legacy Shaped by Mistakes
In the first episode, Fleabag-as-narrator initially presents as a woman in control of her own story, the type of cosmopolitan best…
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