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The Royal Hotel
Widely hailed as the reunion of the actor-director duo behind 2019’s surprise hit The Assistant (one of the…
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Fingernails
Just two days after The Effect’s final performance at the National Theatre, the BFI next door held the…
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May December
The 1996 sex abuse scandal surrounding Mary Kay Letourneau and her then 13-year-old student inspired no shortage of…
By Selina Sondermann
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Foe
The first collaboration of the two most celebrated young Irish talents, Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, has long…
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
The viewer first encounters the film’s protagonist Mackenzie as a sensitive child growing up in the Deep South…
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Evil Does Not Exist
An Oscar win is always difficult to follow up on, as every work thereafter will inevitably be measured…
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The Mission
One of the non-fiction forms presented at the London Film Festival 2023 was the National Geographic production The…
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Last Summer
One of the names Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight prides itself on discovering is that of French filmmaker Catherine Breillat.…
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All of Us Strangers
Older than his parents would ever grow, scriptwriter Adam (played by Andrew Scott) decides to write about his…
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The New Boy
In the middle of the night, a feral child, who has been picked up in the Australian desert,…
By Selina Sondermann