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Telluride film festival 2015 Room review: Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay escape confining adaptation
Director Lenny Abrahamson seems uncertain of how to translate Emma Donoghue’s novel to the big screen – but his cast appear more confident -
Brian Helgeland’s movie about the lives of Ronnie and Reggie Kray portrays the East End gangsters at their most feared
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Actor in Venice to attend the world premiere of his gangster film Black Mass jokes about the row in Australia over the fate of his Yorkshire terriers
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Steven Spielberg believes Batman, Superman, Iron Man et al will soon be sharing a shallow grave with Liberty Valance, Rooster Cogburn and Shane. But do the two genres really compare?
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The French actor, writer and director disappoints in this tale of an obsessive son and his mother
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Star Wars fans around the world dressed up and queued for the new range of merchandise tied to the upcoming movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Scott Cooper’s Whitey Bulger saga is a confident and nasty film with impressive performances from a starry cast
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At Venice world premiere of Boston child-abuse scandal drama Spotlight, actor calls on Vatican to right wrongs and bring disaffected Catholics back to the church
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Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams star as Boston Globe reporters investigating accusations against priests in Tom McCarthy’s worthy, well-intentioned journalism drama
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True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year’s Venice film festival – and the first awards contender from Netflix’s new cinema division
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Alex and Stephen Kendrick’s faith-based film argues that domestic abuse can be cured by retiring to a bunker and praying. It’s an odd plan of attack, says Jordan Hoffman
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Comedy staples adopt worried faces as parents fleeing with their kids from foreign unrest in this weirdly dubious action thriller
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Zac Efron is a super-hot DJ searching for credibility amid the music-video cliches and Entourage-style bro-love
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Nigel Smith and Catherine Shoard preview this year’s Telluride film festival from a ski lift 10,000 feet up a mountain in Colorado
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Benjamin Lee explains why Matthew Heineman’s documentary about vigilante groups fighting to end the US-Mexican drug wars is worth your time
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Our film critics review this week’s big releases, including Jesse Eisenberg as stoner sleeper agent in American Ultra and Owen Wilson in tourist-in-trauma thriller No Escape
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The NWA-backed sweep of the rappers’ rise to success fails to note some important moments, such as Dr Dre’s violence towards women
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The director is seeking support for Tombstone Rashomon, a Kurosawa-style retelling of the Wild West gunfight at the OK Corral. He reveals how past experience shaped his approach to this ambitious project – and what’s in it for investors
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Will Ubisoft’s bloodthirsty romp through history consign previous celluloid terrors to the dustbin of history?
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The re-release of the Italian director’s 1962 masterpiece L’Eclisse should settle that matter once and for all
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On the eve of his Australian tour, the Clerks director talks about making superhero films for girls, being typecast and giving up on pleasing the critics
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The first time the actor saw C-3PO, he felt kinship – and went on to play the android in all six Star Wars movies. Ahead of The Force Awakens, he talks about being censured by Disney, working with JJ Abrams and playing the worrywart robot once more
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She’s equally at home in comic-book blockbusters, arthouse fare and awards bait, but could this coolly unflappable screen presence have made her first career missteps by returning to work with Allen on Irrational Man, and courting controversy in Aloha?
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Movie will be a modern musical like no other, says co-creator, currently starring in People, Places, Things, working on a comedy radio play and flummoxing New Zealand customs
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In new film Vacation, the star of the Hangover movies and US version of The Office plays another normal man unhinged by events. Ed Helms talks southern manners, prosthetic penises – and what he hated about doing the Daily Show
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Maya Newell on making the film, celebrations amid controversy and why a marriage equality plebiscite could have dangerous repercussions
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The actor takes a break from the Suicide Squad shoot to talk about the energy of Comic-Con, working with DiCaprio and Scorsese – and having a ‘market value’
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Five best momentsFive best momentsBenicio del Toro: five best momentsThe finest scenes from the Oscar-winning actor who takes on the role of the infamous drug lord in Escobar: Paradise Lost
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The film quizThe film quiz'You're a monster': match the cruel quote to the relationship dramaAs Andrew Haigh’s devastating marital drama 45 Years hits cinemas, how well do you know the darkest moments in other films about caustic relationships?
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Philip French's classic DVDPhilip French's classic DVDThe Roberto Rossellini Ingrid Bergman Collection review – a tempestuous affair both on and off screenIt all started with a fan letter from Bergman to Rossellini. What followed were two surprising trilogies
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentTop Five: between Chris Rock and a hard placeThe stand-up’s second directorial effort is smart, scathing and tackles several important subjects. Which makes its fumbling of others all the more jarring
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsFar from the Madding Crowd; Phoenix; The Good Lie; Top Five; Narcos – reviewCarey Mulligan’s Bathsheba Everdene is hardly Hardy’s in Thomas Vinterberg’s handsome adaptation, but Nina Hoss is immaculate in a postwar psychodrama
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Formed in 1966, the group remains misunderstood and poorly represented – especially on film. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution tries to sort the fact from fiction
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A brief, brilliant turn in this year’s Sundance hit is the latest chapter in this actor’s overlooked oeuvre. Is Jon Bernthal finally about to hit the big time?
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Cartel Land’s director on filming the shocking truth about Mexico’s nightmarish drug war
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Since Anjelica Huston took off her wig in 1990’s The Witches, we’ve made some progress and broken from lore that dictates witches are ugly and evil
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It seems that Mountain Lake in Virginia – now nothing more than a reddish-brown pit – shows little regard for human intervention or Hollywood nostalgia
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Ahead of the re-release of the 1962 film L’Eclisse, the director’s widow reflects on their anguished relationship, his personal demons and her enduring loyalty
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A Superman who can’t fly and a Rambo who fights zombies? A new documentary celebrates the many (dubious) achievements of Turkey’s rip-off film industry
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Gathering together the best movies released in the US this year, from A Most Violent Year to Furious 7, updated weekly
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Telluride film festival 2015 taking a ski-lift into town – video preview