Film blog
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Danny Boyle’s sequel still tailing family favourite Sing while challenging his original cult hit on the all-time 18-certificate list
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After a childhood under Nazi occupation, the director has made a career of laying bare society’s cruelty. Revenge drama Elle is his latest message from the danger zone
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After Flying Lotus’s debut film prompted mass walkouts at Sundance, we asked our critics about the movies that made them head for the exit
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Modern audiences know the formidable Riva as the stroke victim in the heartwrenching Amour, but she made her name in the French new wave with powerfully sexual performances
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Choose a follow-up? What did you think of the soundtrack, the transformations and the exploits of the re-formed cast of characters, 20 years after the original?
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Poor Amy Adams – this year the acclaimed star of Nocturnal Animals and Arrival failed to get a nomination. Nobody expected it, least of all Vanity Fair
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Damien Chazelle’s musical paean to Hollywood outshines James McAvoy in Split and Vin Diesel’s return as action hero Xander Cage
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The sci-fi series has long been foundering, but the return of the original film’s director to the fold could offer the chance of a creative hard reset
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In Travis Bickle, Scorsese, Schrader and De Niro created an embodiment of 1970s disenfranchisement. Hate-filled and fond of firearms, he speaks to our age too
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Peter Cushing-style reappearances might soon be used to solve all kinds of problems, from Ben Affleck’s discomfort in the Batsuit to Benedict Cumberbatch’s busy schedule
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A Harry Potter-themed restaurant has opened in Brooklyn, following a grand tradition that includes the gut-busting Hobbit breakfast, Deadpool cocktails and a naked Daniel Craig ice lolly
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The Force Awakens left us with tons of unanswered questions. Director Rian Johnson should look at what’s left on the cutting room floor for the follow-up
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La La Land, Arrival and Nocturnal Animals are worthy multiple nominees but a single nod for Andrea Arnold’s zeitgeist-surfing drama is disappointing
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Ken Loach’s drama leads the field of homegrown contenders at next month’s awards. But does its attack on the way welfare works undermine the principles on which the system depends?
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Far-right antisemites have claimed Carpenter’s anti-Reagan 80s action flick as an allegory for Jewish media control. That couldn’t be further from the truth
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The beautiful animated fantasy lost out to Disney’s Zootopia at the Golden Globes, but that shouldn’t determine its fate at the Academy Awards
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Here’s the pithiest zingers and the most groanworthy gaffs from last night’s ceremony and its fallout
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The Golden Globes do things differently, which meant a chance for this richly lovable film to win big. Yet more space for superb dramas such as Nocturnal Animals and Moonlight could have been found
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Gurinder Chadha, who directed Puri in upcoming drama Viceroy’s House, pays tribute to the star who has died aged 66, and whose sensitive performances changed the way we think about race and representation
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The revelation that the Star Wars spin-off was mapped out using clips from existing movies is a reminder of the multiplex’s resistance to breaking new ground. We must cherish the films that do
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Ridley Scott’s next Alien, new Blade Runner Ryan Gosling and a return of the Jedi are highlights in a year full of dark visions of the future
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Anastasia and Christian make up and get it on in an elevator in the second trailer and it all seems to be going so well – but don’t expect a fairytale ending
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They met as drama students in 1974 and became fast friends. Actor Selina Cadell remembers their adventures, from partying in Chelsea to late-night calls about boys
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From opening up about her bipolar disorder and desire for a boyfriend to lavishing love on her mother, Debbie Reynolds, Carrie was always honest, funny and open. No wonder emails are still arriving for her, two days after her death
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