Ian McKellen thrills in The Christophers
The actor’s performance as a jaded painter is among his career-best
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Miranda Priestly is still my hero
The female lead of a Hollywood film expressing a preference for work over children still feels a little transgressive
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The internet wants you to hate Blake Lively
We keep pretending gossiping is a moral good – and it only harms women
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When Steven Spielberg predicted AI
Steven Spielberg’s AI has been re-released 25 years on – and it offers a surprising perspective on today’s dystopian fears
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 is pure guilty pleasure
Twenty years since the original film, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway are back, facing off in a changed fashion world
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The forgotten brilliance of Britain’s postwar cinema
As a new film season at the BFI shows, we can read the character of a battered nation and its…
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Rose of Nevada: a hypnotic Cornish Back to the Future
Mark Jenkin’s new film is beautifully made. But does it make any deeper sense?
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The Wizard of the Kremlin has no magic
This earnest adaptation of a bestselling book on the rise of Putin has too much hectoring and not enough drama
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