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Dawn of the dead

The dark shadow of history has always loomed over Stephen Poliakoff’s dramas. But Glorious 39, set on the eve of war, is bleaker than ever

By David Herman

Reviews

A Serious Man (15)

By Ryan Gilbey - 19 November

Bodily revulsion is at the heart of the Coens' work

The White Ribbon (15)

By Ryan Gilbey - 12 November

Ryan Gilbey detects a new tenderness in the darling of European cinema

Chinese whispers

By Daniel Trilling - 10 November

Xiaolu Guo on the voices of a changing country

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Michael Moore: Q+A

By Daniel Trilling - 08 November

The documentary-maker on capitalism, Obama and why Britain is about to get punished

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Bright Star (PG)

By Ryan Gilbey - 05 November

A deft treatment of John Keats's love life

An Education (12A)/Taking Woodstock (15)

By Ryan Gilbey - 29 October

It’s hard to avoid cliché in such a well-visited era

Fantastic Mr Fox (PG)

By Ryan Gilbey - 22 October

The puppets are gorgeous but the script's a bit familiar, writes Ryan Gilbey

The NS Interview: Terry Gilliam

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 15 October

“Making films is just a cheap version of being God”

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12A)

By Ryan Gilbey - 15 October

A strangely underpowered effort from Terry Gilliam

Up (U)

By Ryan Gilbey - 08 October

Pixar achieves lift-off with its latest 3-D outing

Profile/Interviews

The Invention of Lying (12A)

By Ryan Gilbey - 01 October

I can’t lie – this is an absolute stinker of a movie

Born in '68 (15)

By Ryan Gilbey - 24 September

French hippie ideals sour in less than convincing style

Away We Go (15)

By Ryan Gilbey - 17 September

Sam Mendes and a hip literary couple deliver a shockingly smug movie

“What a tremendous eye he has,” said David Bowie of the film-maker Nagisa Oshima after working with him on Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Ryan Gilbey celebrates the Japanese director’s eroticism and wicked sense of humour

Fish Tank (15)

By Ryan Gilbey - 10 September

A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands

Back to mine

By Paul Routledge - 03 September

From Yorkshire to Somerset, the coal industry once employed a million men and was the lifeblood of hundreds of communities. A new season of films preserve the memory of a lost era