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Film Review: Wicked
★★★★
Film Review: Anora
★★★★★
First look at Gladiator 2 has everyone saying the same thing
‘Who’s this guy?’
Richard Curtis uses Al Pacino’s Any Given Sunday speech to inspire global action on climate change
The acclaimed filmmaker is aiming to bring attention to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals reaching the halfway mark.
Film Review: La Chimera
★★ Arthur Harrison (Josh O’Connor) has a special gift. With a dowsing rod in hand, he can detect buried treasure. Living in Italy, though it’s never explained why, he and a band of grave-robbers dig up Etruscan artefacts and sell them on the black market to the highest bidder. Arthur is also a rather sad guy. Pining for a lost love we presume has died at some point in the recent past, he walks around in dirty clothes, unkempt beard...
Film Review: Last Summer
★★★★★ Those expecting Catherine Breillat to scandalise the Croisette this year will find her new film, Last Summer (2023), perhaps disappointing. Given its salacious storyline – a middle-aged lawyer who specialises in child protection cases having an affair with her 17-year-old step-son – one might expect something confrontationally outrageous. But Breillat has instead made a delicate and wholly captivating film instead about, not just abuse of power, but middle-aged sexuality and decades spent being miserable dominated by bourgeois repression. Late...