Movies
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The film-maker and ‘filth elder’ has made a career out of generating shocks. Now a debut novelist, can his book’s talking gay penis save camp?
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3 out of 5 stars.
Interceptor review – absurd yet entertaining Netflix action thriller
3 out of 5 stars.A frantic real-time piece of pulp about one woman trying to avert nuclear missiles hitting the US is clunky yet committed
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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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2 out of 5 stars.Sandler sells it hard as a washed-up talent scout but this glossy cameo-fest is too besotted with basketball to offer true drama
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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 -
3 out of 5 stars.A hero of the 2008 hotel siege gets a relentlessly entertaining biopic, going all-out with the hagiographic bells and whistles
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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
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 actor, 48, on Star Wars, bubble baths, and doing the Spitting Image voice of Priti Patel
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The Irish actor might have been a sports star. Instead, he’s playing a sex worker opposite Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and fulfilling his grandad’s movie dream
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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
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 -
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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3 out of 5 stars.A frantic real-time piece of pulp about one woman trying to avert nuclear missiles hitting the US is clunky yet committed
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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
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