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March 1, 2024The dread of the author: ‘American Fiction’ and ‘Argylle’
Cord Jefferson’s satire about Black artists fighting white perceptions of their work runs out of ideas, while Matthew Vaughn’s spy movie parody has no ideas of its own
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March 1, 2024The dread of the author: ‘American Fiction’ and ‘Argylle’
Cord Jefferson’s satire about Black artists fighting white perceptions of their work runs out of ideas, while Matthew Vaughn’s spy movie parody has no ideas of its own
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February 6, 2024International Film Festival Rotterdam highlights
Films from Iran, Ukraine and Bundaberg were deserving winners at this year’s festival
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December 14, 2023The best (and worst) of 2023 on screen
It was a strong year for horror, while lowlights included Martin Scorsese’s mishandled ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Emerald Fennell’s lazily conceived ‘Saltburn’
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December 1, 2023Modern Prometheans: ‘Poor Things’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’
Emma Stone seeks a moral conscience in Yorgos Lanthimos’s upended Frankenstein grotesque, while Andrew Haigh delivers a metaphysical coming-out story
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November 1, 2023Into the streaming void: ‘The Killer’ and ‘They Cloned Tyrone’
David Fincher’s stylish pulp and Juel Taylor’s SF-adjacent satire are the latest riches to be taken for granted in the ever-ready, abundant world of Netflix
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October 20, 2023Venice International Film Festival 2023 highlights
Cuban drama ‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’, hypnotic Nepalese debut ‘The Red Suitcase’, and documentary ‘Photophobia’, following those sheltering in Kharkiv’s underground metro stations, are among this year’s stand-outs
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October 1, 2023Histories of violence: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and ‘El Conde’
Martin Scorsese’s first Western mishandles its story of colonial exploitation, while Pablo Larraín’s darkly humorous, black-and-white satire delivers Pinochet as a vampire
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September 1, 2023Workers’ singularity: AI and the future of art and labour
The Hollywood writers’ strike has put a spotlight on the impact artificial intelligence may have on artistic endeavour
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August 1, 2023Close encounters of the shared kind: ‘Past Lives’
Korean debut filmmaker Celine Song’s elegant three-part love story embraces the Buddhist idea of encounters over many incarnations
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June 15, 2023Cannes Film Festival 2023 highlights: part two
Rodrigo Moreno’s transfixing drama ‘The Delinquents’, Molly Manning Walker’s unsentimental coming-of-age film ‘How to Have Sex’ and Spanish veteran Víctor Erice’s ‘Close Your Eyes’ were among the best of the Cannes sidebars
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June 2, 2023Cannes Film Festival 2023 highlights: part one
Jonathan Glazer brilliantly conveys the banality of evil in Auschwitz drama ‘The Zone of Interest’, while Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ disappointed
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June 1, 2023The deep end: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3’ and ‘Infinity Pool’
Comics fan James Gunn delivers the best of Marvel’s overabundance, while Brandon Cronenberg offers a perverse vision of humanity unbound
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March 29, 2023Berlinale 2023 highlights: part two
Standouts among the sidebars included French crime flick ‘The Temple Woods Gang’, Argentinian comedy of errors ‘Arturo a los 30’ and London-set queer thriller ‘Femme’
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April 1, 2023Donkey gong: Jerzy Skolimowski’s ‘EO’
The venerable Polish director’s latest film follows a donkey on a moving yet unsentimental journey
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March 20, 2023Berlinale 2023 highlights: part one
The two best films of the festival – Celine Song’s impeccable romance ‘Past Lives’ and Lila Avilés’ sophomore feature ‘Tótem’ – failed to garner awards recognition