movies
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Of course you never see the real person when you fall for someone; you see a self-flattering illusion, and this is triply true with celebrity crushesOh, how I loved you, Johnny Depp. Now I see the purple-tinted truth
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Bafta awards: BBC braced for podium protests against TrumpCorporation says it will do its best to reflect the essence of any speeches made when it edits show for broadcast
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Fifty Shades Darker gets a pummelling from the world's film critics‘Utter blandness’ and ‘a beast of roaring stupidity’ are among deluge of damning review comments -
The Dinner review – soggy melodrama and indigestible ham all roundLaura Linney, Rebecca Hall, Richard Gere and Steve Coogan star in a dull, shouty, unconvincing film about four people discussing their children over a fancy meal
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Mel Brooks: ‘Donald Trump doesn't scare me. He's a song-and-dance man'One of America’s great comics for the past 60 years, the maker of films Blazing Saddles and The Producers talks about why he can’t take the president seriously – and the White House sidekicks that are no laughing matter
best films of 2016
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The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: the full listThe Guardian film team’s favourite movies released in the US this year
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The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 1 MoonlightOur 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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The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 2 Toni ErdmannAs 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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submissive sequel offers little light relief but lots of washingEL James’s panting couple are back – but director Sam Taylor-Johnson is not – in this daft yet dull S&M soap
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funny, exciting and packed with gagsThis sophisticated pop culture adventure set in a world of Lego bricks just might rescue DC Comics’ battered reputation
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Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romanceA strange, shameful chapter of history is dusted off by Amma Assante to make this earnestly stirring Empire drama
video & audio
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Annette Bening: 'We can all learn a lot from Jimmy Carter' – video interviewThe star of Mike Mills’s Oscar-nominated 20th Century Women speaks of her admiration for the former president
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Academy Award nominees pose for group photo at Oscars lunch – videoThe Academy Award nominees class of 2016 pose for a photograph on Monday during the Oscars luncheon in Beverly Hills, California
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The Lego Batman Movie: trailer for superhero spin-off – videoThe Lego Batman Movie finds the Dark Knight not only dealing with the criminals of Gotham City, but also the responsibility of the boy he adopted
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Don't Take Me Home trailer: documentary follows Wales's incredible Euro 2016 – videoDon’t Take Me Home tells the incredible story of Wales’ Euro 2016 campaign in France where Chris Coleman’s side reached the last four the tournament
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Jeff Nichols on Loving: 'Everyone's picking a side' – video interviewThe director of Oscar-nominated civil rights drama Loving discusses how society needs to rise above the lowest impulses of human nature
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Beauty and the Beast: final trailer features more footage and a duet – videoThe final trailer for the Disney’s live-action adaptation of the 1991 animated classic features new footage as well as Ariana Grande and John Legend’s duet
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John Wick: Chapter 2 is a shameful example of Hollywood gun pornographyThe sequel to the Keanu Reeves sleeper hit might be efficiently slick but its obsession with weaponry leaves a nasty taste in the mouth
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Scare tactics: can David Gordon Green bring the slasher flick back to life?The Pineapple Express director has been charged with rebooting Halloween, but faces a tough task to recreate the chills that made the originals so frightening
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Emma Watson: the feminist and the fairytaleShe’s about to star as the heroine of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but post-Potter she has received more plaudits for her activism than her acting
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‘Like a paranoid tiger-mom’: how control-freak authors took over HollywoodWriter EL James was granted total control over the film version of Fifty Shades Darker, and it’s a trend that’s set to get bigger. But some in the business think it’s bad news
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Octavia Spencer: ‘You need to see people of colour in big movies’The Oscar-winning actor is nominated again for box-office smash Hidden Figures, the story of Nasa’s black female mathematicians. She talks about diversity, her mentor Whoopi Goldberg – and being a control freak
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Moonlight becomes him: Barry Jenkins's journey from a Miami housing project to the OscarsHe had a hand-to-mouth childhood in a rough neighbourhood, then went to a football college. So how did the 37-year-old end up making the film of the year?
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Ava DuVernay on the legacy of slavery: ‘The sad truth is that some minds will not be changed’DuVernay’s last film, Selma, was overlooked at the Oscars. Her documentary 13th, which links Trump-era America to its racist past, is a hot favourite to win an award
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Taraji P Henson: 'I'm glad I kept my ego in check'After years of bit parts, low pay and a breakthrough role in Empire, Taraji P Henson is taking the lead as a Nasa scientist
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Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there'As his film goes head to head with La La Land for Oscar glory, the playwright tells how growing up in the Miami projects inspired his view of America
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‘People just want a bully’ - director Mike Mills on how the US picks its presidentThe film-maker behind Oscar-nominated 20th Century Women talks about why some Americans still only want a powerful, patriarchal figure in the White House
regulars
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UK box office reportUK box office reportT2 Trainspotting gets high on UK box office's adults-only chartDanny 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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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainment555: would you pay good money for a hipster sketch series?Vimeo are the next streaming site to do original programming, but their surreal show about a bunch of Hollywood misfits could be worth coughing up for
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Mark Kermode's film of the weekMark Kermode's film of the weekToni Erdmann review – talk about embarrassing parents…Maren Ade’s German comedy-drama finds excruciating humour and great pathos in a surreal collision between father and daughter
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsThe Girl on the Train; A Date for Mad Mary and more – reviewEmily Blunt’s performance far exceeds the bounds of a glossy thriller, while Seána Kerslake is a perfect match for an ex-con drama
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Week in geekWeek in geekIn space, no one can hear you steal: is new sci-fi film Life just an Alien remake?Hollywood has caught the sci-fi bug again. But can the forthcoming space thriller improve on Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror, or will it be just another Inseminoid?
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John PattersonJohn PattersonAva DuVernay on the legacy of slavery: ‘The sad truth is that some minds will not be changed’DuVernay’s last film, Selma, was overlooked at the Oscars. Her documentary 13th, which links Trump-era America to its racist past, is a hot favourite to win an award
you may have missed
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Django review – jazz great's war story fails to find its rhythmHe jammed for the Nazis and aided the resistance, but this tale of guitar genius Django Reinhardt’s war falls flat due to slack tempo and poor characterisation
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A Cure for Wellness review – evil spa horror has eels, incest and aqua aerobicsAn alternately intriguing and frustrating chiller has flashes of elegance but settles for unhinged hokum with bizarre results
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Most cringeworthy moment and best drunken speech … Peter Bradshaw's awards show awardsFilm awards season is gathering pace, so we’re taking a moment to look back and salute Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando for livening up ceremonies without even being there and Miss Piggy for owning the red carpet
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Sorry, Batfleck: Lego Batman is the only Dark Knight that matters nowThe smart animated spinoff has a far better understanding of the character’s essential mythology than last year’s silly, swaggering Batman v Superman
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Middle Eastern cinema has so much to say, and we need to be listening now more than everTrump’s travel ban bars these artists from entering the US or attending the award ceremonies, and has overshadowed some critically acclaimed work
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Blood, guts and fireballs: the day I took two bullets at Trainspotting's SFX studioA stabbing for T2, a blazing station for Hot Fuzz, a bus blown up for The Foreigner … Artem are the go-to pyromaniacs for British films. Our writer gets sliced up and shot at
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