movies
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Here’s your chance – with spoilers – to discuss Gareth Edwards’ bleak yet electrifying entry into the Star Wars universe – and the future of the franchise
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A dubious new genre is centred on characters “saving” the holiday and all its trimmings from scrooges – and the concept of cultural inclusivity
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She vapes, she masturbates, she has poor social-media etiquette – no wonder Katherine Heigl gets ditched in favour of Rosario Dawson in this throwback thriller
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The comedian follows sleeper hit Trainwreck with role in a mother-daughter comedy about a holiday that goes wrong
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Zhang Yimou’s artful flourishes are the highlights of this US-Chinese blockbuster, a monster movie with a muddled message – but plenty of sweeping swordplay
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Anomalisa is our favourite film of the year. Its director shares his thoughts on road rage, Donald Trump and why we need to smile at each other more
best films of 2016
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The Guardian film team’s favourite movies released in the US this year
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Our countdown of 2016’s top films concludes as Benjamin Lee salutes a poetic and poignant movie that depicted the life of a gay black man with heart-swelling humanity
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As our countdown nears its conclusion, Catherine Shoard picks – in joint second place – a German comedy that pokes extravagant fun at work, life and imbalanced family ties
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Felicity Jones’s fugitive, hunting for the plans to the Death Star, is a tousled-but-game female lead – just one of many classic Star Wars motifs in Gareth Edwards’ exhilarating spin-off
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Will Smith stars in this horrifyingly cutesy Will Smith film in which bereavement is offset by soft-focus platitudes about wonder and compassion
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This long-awaited film adaptation of the August Wilson play remains stagy, but as a showcase for two towering performances it could hardly be improved
video & audio
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The first UK trailer for Elle, which stars Isabelle Huppert as the formidable CEO of a video games company who takes curious revenge on a sexual assailant
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In Rachel Perkins’ new adaptation of Craig Silvey’s award-winning novel, a girl goes missing in an isolated and racially divided Australian town
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The Dark Knight director’s first film since Interstellar is a depiction of the celebrated second world war evacuation from Dunkirk, starring Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and Harry Styles
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A wrecking ball on a freeway, high-tech terrorism, a submarine and exploding cars: it’s all systems go in the new trailer for the eighth instalment of The Fast and the Furious
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In the Daisy Ridley-narrated documentary, Aisholpan, 13, must overcome the opposition of her elders to achieve her dream of becoming a record-breaking eagle hunter
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In the new trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming, Michael Keaton appears as new villain, the Vulture, and fans get their first look at Donald Glover’s character
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Paramount’s big-screen version of the beloved TV series opens worldwide in May 2017
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Hollywood thinks kids can come up with movies. So we sat seven in a room and gave their ideas – from laser monsters to polar bear witches – to an Oscar-nominated producer and asked which one he’d pick
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Cillian Murphy gets his long-sought lead role, Mark Rylance is an intrepid fisherman and Harry Styles succumbs to the English channel
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From violent heist films to lo-fi indies, there’s no need to rely on It’s A Wonderful Life to get you in the festive mood
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Success for Gareth Edwards’s offbeat spinoff of the space opera would prove there’s more than one Marvel-style model for building Hollywood mega-sagas
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Her second collaboration with Whit Stillman in Love & Friendship has brought her the best reviews of her career
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A Bigger Splash is our fourth-favourite film of the year. Its star explains what it taught her about human nature – and reveals if she really was channelling David Bowie
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In his latest role, the actor tackles homophobia in football. He tells Eva Wiseman how ‘everything’s built up to the performance in this film’
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The Mexican actor and Chilean director talk about the power and the duty that Latin American cinema has to combat racism in the era of Donald Trump
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The filmmaker returns to the subject of alienation with his new documentary about a young autistic man who uses Disney films to make sense of the world
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It’s taken the actor 30 years to reach the A-list. But with his role as bad guy Orson Krennic, he’s about to go galactic. He talks about being awestruck by Darth Vader – and his lederhosen-wearing youth
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He’s a Bollywood hero and the world’s biggest movie star, and in his new film he plays a rumpled sage. He talks about his desire to make people happy, why he’s got no friends, and what he tells his children about religion
regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportFantastic Beasts holds UK box office spellbound, as Office Christmas Party gets a round inThe Harry Potter spinoff looks on course for 2016’s top spot after a fourth week at No 1, while Office Christmas Party outdances Bad Santa 2 in the cruel Yule movie stakes
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentFight for your right: the "war on Christmas" films nobody needs to seeA dubious new genre is centred on characters “saving” the holiday and all its trimmings from scrooges – and the concept of cultural inclusivity
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Mark Kermode's film of the weekMark Kermode's film of the weekI am not a Serial Killer review – portrait of the sociopath as a young manEvoking the ghost of Donnie Darko, this weird horror hybrid is a darkly funny trip through the mind of a would-be killer
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsSwallow and Amazons; David Brent: Life on the Road; Woody Allen: Six Films and more – reviewComforting British titles, first-rate Woody Allen, Ricky Gervais on the road again, and a slow-moving Zac Efron vehicle
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Week in geekWeek in geekAttack of the clones: can Rogue One save us from a future of identikit cinematic universes?Success for Gareth Edwards’s offbeat spinoff of the space opera would prove there’s more than one Marvel-style model for building Hollywood mega-sagas
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John PattersonJohn PattersonThe Eagle Huntress: how a Mongolian teenager triumphed over traditionOtto Bell’s documentary mixes the traditional and modern to thrilling effect
you may have missed
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He’s been camp, carried a scythe, played everything from Chess to Twister and even cracked jokes. Now she’s Helen Mirren in a blue beret and boa. We explore the many lives of the Grim Reaper
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Following a pre-programmed trajectory marked #OscarsSoWhite, this biopic of the scientists behind John Glenn’s space flight is irresistably uplifting
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Otto Bell’s documentary mixes the traditional and modern to thrilling effect
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The actor’s friend and co-star remembers a gentle man whose sensitivity was born from a tough upbringing and a constantly ailing mother
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The director recalls the generosity and deep social engagement of an actor as at home in Harry Potter as in Hamlet
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The golden age of the Hollywood musical offered respite from recession and war. Can this all-singing all-dancing film do the same now?
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Born the son of an immigrant ragman, the great survivor of film’s golden age – from Detective Story to Spartacus – celebrates his centenary today
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