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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The Secret Agent is a thrill ride through Brazil’s dictatorship
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Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet melts the heart
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley are superb in this original transposition of Shakespeare to the silver screen
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