Saltburn is a class satire without bite
Emerald Fennell’s story of an Oxford student who infiltrates the aristocracy values style over depth.
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How to Have Sex understands teen girl desire
This provocative, insightful film blows up a particular adolescent experience to better see its nuances.
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Anatomy of a Fall is a Hitchcockian thriller with depth
Justine Triet’s superb work of psychological suspense elevates the genre.
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Dance First is a catastrophic Samuel Beckett biopic
This film about the great Irish playwright will mystify those not familiar with his life and work – and irritate…
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Cat Person is a lesson in how to ruin a great story
Susanna Fogel’s take on the viral New Yorker story reveals the dangers of lazy adaptation.
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Killers of the Flower Moon is Martin Scorsese at his best
This late, great Western is a powerful study of greed, betrayal and evil.
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Why make a film about the BlackBerry?
In Matt Johnson’s film about the vanished electronic device, we all know what’s to come: the iPhone.
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Ken Loach’s turn to sentimentality
In the 87-year-old director’s new film The Old Oak, wishful liberal thinking comes at the cost of plausibility.
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Dumb Money is a monument to American greed
Craig Gillespie’s tale of the GameStop “short squeeze” shows how little amateur investors have learned.
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The Kenneth Branagh-Agatha Christie cinematic universe
In his third reinvention of Hercule Poirot, Branagh lends him new substance, a new moustache – and a new story.
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Celine Song’s Past Lives and the trap of autobiographical art
This debut film of lost love is full of material that is clearly important to her. Why should it matter…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: a feeble last crack of the whip
The Harrison Ford franchise that began with spectacle and wit has ended with a dull, predictable, CGI-laden dud.
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In The Last Waltz it’s Joni Mitchell who mesmerises
Martin Scorsese’s film may be about the Band, but when Joni plays you feel the confidence burning off her like…
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Passages is Ira Sachs’s “horny film”
The director’s art-house film concerns a catastrophic ménage-a-trois.
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Scrapper is a sickly sweet father-daughter comedy
In Charlotte Regan’s playful but twee debut, a fiercely independent 12-year-old is reunited with her absent young dad.
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Lie With Me is a wildly romantic story of lost love
Olivier Peyon’s new film, adapted from a bestselling gay romance, knows how an early relationship can determine a life.
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A strategic analysis of Barbie
The ideological hegemony and failed revolution of Barbieland.
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The Virgin Suicides is a defining text of adolescent pain
Both Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel and Sofia Coppola’s film have endured through the decades, resonating with new generations of teenagers.
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Why Richard Ayoade’s Submarine still feels fresh
Now on Netflix, the coming-of-age film encapsulates the pain of adolescence in a small town.
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Barbie can’t handle the truth
Barbie and Oppenheimer show us how in the heart of the darkest realities we stumble upon fantasies.
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