Movies
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4 out of 5 stars.Winner at the Venice film festival, Audrey Diwan’s film captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalisation of abortion in provincial France
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Longtime collaborator Michael Feinstein has alleged that the manner of Minnelli’s appearance presenting best picture last month was largely against her wishes
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4 out of 5 stars.
Once You Know review – must-watch essay on climate change that tells us it’s already here
4 out of 5 stars.Emmanuel Cappellin’s sobering film seeks out those attempting to think past the point of no ecological return -
The schoolyard is a psychological minefield in Playground, Wandel’s stomach-churning debut. As the film is released in the UK, she reveals the secret to immersing the viewer in a child’s world
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Actor takes stand in defamation trial and denies ex-wife’s domestic abuse claims, saying ‘I have never struck any woman in my life’
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2 out of 5 stars.
Dog – Channing Tatum and a problem mutt take a strange ride
2 out of 5 stars.The actor makes an unlikely comeback as a veteran charged with taking his late friend’s dog across country in an odd and tonally uneven star vehicle -
3 out of 5 stars.An effectively gnarly Netflix follow-up to the 1974 original has Gen Zs trying to turf the bloodthirsty southern killer out of a derelict town
Video & audio
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Meet three Australian women who are pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on them
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In Guardian Australia’s weekly podcast about internet culture, JR Hennessy joins Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun to discuss the Will Smith/Chris Rock controversy and the arrival of short kings
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Director Cherish Oteka and the lead subject of the film Gamal 'G' Turawa speak to the press after winning best short film
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In this week’s episode, John Crace on Boris Johnson’s six-point plan for Ukraine turning out to be six vague principles, Sirin Kale interviews Zoë Kravitz, Annalisa Barbieri on why ‘sorry’ is the hardest word, and Emine Saner on female standups from the 1960s.
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Sidney Poitier, whose groundbreaking acting work in the 1950s and 60s paved the way for generations of black film stars, has died aged 94
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Guardian critics Charlotte Northedge, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Simran Hans look ahead to the best of the year in culture
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Viewing figures for the Academy Awards have been in decline for years and 2022’s ceremony looked like yet another snoozefest … until Smith slapped Chris Rock
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While the dial only seemed to be turning one way, the 94th Academy Awards was unexpectedly rich in sexist ‘her-indoors’ gags, undoing any progress
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The actor, who has starred in everything from sitcoms to Shakespeare, talks about his family rows over Brexit, having his phone hacked – and why he did not want to be like Laurence Olivier
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She rose from poverty to become the first Black person to win acting’s triple crown. Now she is playing Michelle Obama and opening up about her tough path to the top
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As sister Claire, Sian Clifford was a ball of pent-up rage and frustration in Fleabag. Now she is busier than ever. She talks about learning to soften her edges and making those ‘what if’ moments come true
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Jude Hill beat 300 other hopefuls to play Buddy, the boy in Kenneth Branagh’s film. The film is a glittering success – and so is the young actor whose career it launched
Regulars
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4 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Compartment No 6 review – bittersweet brief encounter on an Arctic-bound train
4 out of 5 stars.Two wildly mismatched travellers find themselves sharing a sleeping compartment from Moscow to Murmansk in Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s beguiling romance -
The plot of the new movie is confusing enough if you know Dumbledore and Grindelwald were lovers; pity the audience in China for whom this detail is censored
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Director Patty Jenkins recently condemned films produced by streamers as “fake movies”, but the evolution has opened doors for diversity
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After years of on-screen successes led by the likes of Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, female directors are making their mark with urgent, disquieting cinema
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A revealing new Netflix documentary looks back on the highs of the fashion brand that dominated a generation before controversies dragged it down
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With some cast members in disgrace and others at odds with creator JK Rowling over trans rights, the Harry Potter spin-off has become embroiled in controversy. Can it make it to the end of its five-film series?
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Whether they’re sending themselves up or shedding an off-screen persona, there is a peculiar delight in seeing an actor take on a role they were literally born to play
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Ennio review – Giuseppe Tornatore’s heartfelt tribute to film composer Morricone
4 out of 5 stars.