Hard Truths is Mike Leigh’s most severe movie
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.
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The monumental achievement of The Brutalist
Brady Corbet’s uncompromisingly long, high-concept epic about a Hungarian architect might seem pretentious – but it demands to be seen.
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The inscrutable David Lynch
The American filmmaker, who has died aged 78, leaves behind a body of work exploring the rot of evil and…
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The Bob Dylan mystery machine
In A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold and actor Timothée Chalamet present Dylan as an enigma – a mythology favoured…
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Christopher Nolan’s Zeus complex
The Odyssey is the perfect canvas for the director’s obsession with power and time.
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The indulgent sadness of Angelina Jolie’s Maria
The opera singer Maria Callas is Pablo Larraín’s latest glamorous, unhappy, unknowable muse – or is it Jolie herself?
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Babygirl casts a cynical eye on the post-MeToo workplace
This story of an office affair starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson is free of sanctimony: the misconduct is too…
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Nickel Boys is ambitious, immersive and alienating
The confident and provocative film offers style over connection.
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