With Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven proves he is as outrageous and iconoclastic as ever
The Dutch director’s latest sinful rampage follows a lesbian relationship in a 17th-century convent.
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The Bubble signals the onset of the pandemic blockbuster
Judd Apatow’s comedy about a film production in quarantine is the first big-budget Hollywood movie to feature Covid-19 as a…
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Harry Wootliff’s True Things is a lacklustre tale of erotic obsession
The film is visually compelling but its protagonists, played by Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke, lack depth and credibility.
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How Will Smith sabotaged his moment of glory
All was going so well. Then came that slap: an act of violence that seems especially disruptive since Smith has…
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The Worst Person in the World is an exuberant portrait of a young woman flailing as she approaches 30
The third instalment in Joachim Trier’s Oslo trilogy is warm and fast-moving, with a whiff of the pop promo about…
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Reports of the death of the girlboss have been greatly exaggerated
The girlboss walks among us. She lives in Molly-Mae Hague's hustle tips and Jane Campion's misguided comment to the Williams…
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The Phantom of the Open is a very British tribute to failure
Mark Rylance is charming as the golf hoaxer Maurice Flitcroft, but there's not quite enough here to sustain a feature.
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Red Rocket is a mouth-watering study of an irredeemable narcissist
In Tangerine and The Florida Project, Sean Baker rendered hardscrabble lives in carnival colours. Now he turns his eye to…
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