Movies
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2 out of 5 stars.
Dashcam review – Maga-loving social media monster leads pandemic horror
2 out of 5 stars.Annie Hardy plays a livestream host so toxic that even zombies struggle to deal with her
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3 out of 5 stars.Jens Sjögren’s sympathetic film avoids the cliched sport movie formula of triumph over adversity by focusing on what happens off the pitch
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5 out of 5 stars.
Pickpocket review – existential thrills in Robert Bresson’s study of a thief’s progress
5 out of 5 stars.Bresson’s 1959 film about a misfit who dreams of rising above conventional morals is a brilliant example of the cinema of ideas -
3 out of 5 stars.
Bergman Island review – marital woes revealed on a trip to Ingmar Bergman territory
3 out of 5 stars.Real and imaginary marriage discontents bleed into each other when a director and his screenwriter spouse go on retreat to the great auteur’s island home -
1 out of 5 stars.It doesn’t help that there is more charisma in the shark’s cold dead eye than in the entire cast
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Parasite star Song Kang-ho becomes first South Korean male to win an acting prize, while director Park Chan-wook wins for Decision to Leave
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Swedish director’s satire received an eight-minute standing ovation at festival
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3 out of 5 stars.Alex Liu makes for a charismatic guide to the sexual landscape of America, with an engaging curiosity to help demystify the birds and the bees
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4 out of 5 stars.
Reflection review – a shaken, horrifying outcry for Ukraine – and statement of hope
4 out of 5 stars.Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s enigmatic war drama, set in Donbas, is brutal in its depiction of conflict but also elusively redemptive -
2 out of 5 stars.This wayward, occasionally handsome account of the story of Fatima is more interesting on paper than in practice
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2 out of 5 stars.
Nine Bullets review – Lena Headey and her on-screen smoulder on the run from the mob
2 out of 5 stars.Headey does her best in a dull, cliched slog that is part Tarantino, part Cassavetes, but is not up to either
What to watch
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The festival’s first full program since 2019 includes a new fantasy from Del Kathryn Barton, an eight-part First Nations anthology, and a doco filmed in VR
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Failure to understand the film’s message is just another example of the way Hollywood continues to dismiss Asian achievement and stories
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The star of Amazon’s cult comic book series on failing in Australia, his roles in The Lord of the Rings and Star Trek and spending half his life away from home
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As a child star, the actor suffered trauma and neglect. Now an acclaimed director, she is confronting the ghosts of her past with a frank new book
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At 89, the beloved British actor is still striving. In fact, she’s just published a new memoir, Old Rage, in which she lays bare her anger and anxiety over work, life and love…
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Jim Howick’s wicked sense of humour helped turn Horrible Histories, Ghosts and Sex Education into massive hits. Here, the actor and writer reveals how he’s always made it up as he went along
Regulars
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4 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Top Gun: Maverick review – irresistible Tom Cruise soars in a blockbuster sequel
4 out of 5 stars.Cinema’s favourite ageless fighter pilot returns with all the nail-biting aeronautics and emotional sucker punches that made the original an 80s-defining hit -
Week in geek Stripped naked and swapped for a woman: how Chris Hemsworth’s Thor is currently looking
Losing his hammer was bad enough, but now our hero must cope with being ogled by goddesses in Thor: Love and Thunder -
Director Patty Jenkins recently condemned films produced by streamers as “fake movies”, but the evolution has opened doors for diversity
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The street photographer Andy Hall turns his lenses on the hustle and bustle – as well as contradictions – as movie world descends on the French Riviera city
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Film-makers get to borrow expensive bits of kit on the cheap, but the Pentagon uses movies as a propaganda machine
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Lee Mi-Mi’s intoxicating film, which sits in a rich cinematic tradition of all-girls’ schools, with their homoerotic tensions, as social microcosms, earns a rare screening this week
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The original film’s James Dean T-shirts and flying jackets harked back to a safer, more wholesome era. Three decades later, its sequel will try the same trick
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With Avatar and Spinal Tap films on the way, does the flurry of belated follow-ups typify Hollywood’s aversion to risk?
Film genres
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4 out of 5 stars.
Action Top Gun: Maverick review – irresistible Tom Cruise soars in a blockbuster sequel
4 out of 5 stars.Cinema’s favourite ageless fighter pilot returns with all the nail-biting aeronautics and emotional sucker punches that made the original an 80s-defining hit -
4 out of 5 stars.
Animation The Bob’s Burgers Movie review – a spin-off to relish
4 out of 5 stars.Bob and his family deal with a grisly threat to the burger joint in this deliciously silly film version of the TV animation -
5 out of 5 stars.
Crime Pickpocket review – existential thrills in Robert Bresson’s study of a thief’s progress
5 out of 5 stars.Bresson’s 1959 film about a misfit who dreams of rising above conventional morals is a brilliant example of the cinema of ideas -
3 out of 5 stars.
Drama I Am Zlatan review – compelling insight into the making of a football superstar
3 out of 5 stars.Jens Sjögren’s sympathetic film avoids the cliched sport movie formula of triumph over adversity by focusing on what happens off the pitch
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