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John Patterson
John Patterson writes about film and is based in Los Angeles
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Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga play an interracial couple fighting to stay together. It makes for a luminous historic drama
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Moore ripped up the TV rulebook by bringing feminism to the small screen and with her own company went on to produce some of the best shows ever seen
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In 1974, news anchor Christine Chubbuck killed herself live on air. In this considered drama, Hall gives gravitas and depth to her tragic tale
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Pablo Larraín’s film shows why the White House wives deserve their own biopics
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After a standard run of action fare, could the actor’s festive trio signal a return to form?
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Before he became Donald Trump’s most trusted adviser, the businessman labelled a white nationalist by critics had a career making rightwing movies
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Despite some heavyweight performances, this pugilist biopic is overshadowed by some very distinguished forebears
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Prescient and powerful, the film foreshadowed the likes of Bill O’Reilly with its ‘mad as hell’ protagonists and the climate of American anger that birthed Trump
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The actual events of the war may be receding into the vagueness of folk memory, but we still can’t get enough of them on screen
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The Boyhood director’s relaxed individualism is celebrated in a new documentary about his sprawling, and often brilliant, career
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The documentarian found a typically offbeat way to infiltrate the church’s secretive world but the result is just as powerful and evocative as Going Clear
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With Swiss Army Man, Daniel Radcliffe shakes off the last of his tween era with a funny and moving role as a cheese-cutting cadaver
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It may be tasteless, but National Lampoon captured the campus experience in a way no UK film has
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Howard’s new film captures the sweat, screams and cultural significance of the band’s touring years. He explains why the Fab Four still fascinates him
Topics
- Drama
- Documentary (Film)
- Television
- Comedy (Film)
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Science fiction and fantasy
- Comedy (Culture)
- Louis Theroux
- Silence
- Documentary (Television & radio)
- The Eagle Huntress
- US television
- The Birth of a Nation
- Biopics
- Brad Pitt
- Philip Roth
- Action and adventure
- Viggo Mortensen
- Wim Wenders
- John Lennon
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