White Noise: a weird and wonderful spectacle
At its London Film Festival premiere, Noah Baumbach told audiences his adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel is about “how crazy…
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What Don DeLillo saw coming
In 1985, White Noise captured America’s nascent attention economy. Can an $80m Netflix adaptation live up to his vision?
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The best films of 2022
The New Statesman’s critic picks his top ten movies of the year.
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Bach’s accidental masterpiece
The keyboard works of The Well-Tempered Clavier sound more novel and luminous 300 years later than in their composer’s day.
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Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is a Gen Z-friendly cannibal romance
Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell are great together in this YA story of flesh-eating boy meets flesh-eating girl.
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Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a completely pointless adaptation
This film swaps the darkness and brutality of DH Lawrence’s novel for tender scenes of dancing in the rain.
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The Knives Out sequel Glass Onion is a murder mystery that skewers the wealthy
Daniel Craig has just as much fun in this whodunnit, which sees “disruptors” gather mid-pandemic on the private island of…
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The Wonder: Florence Pugh is controlled and commanding in this brilliant film
Inspired by the phenomenon of fasting girls in the Victorian era, this is a fresh look at wilful women and…
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She Said is a myopic, timid and trivial attempt at a #MeToo movie
This film about the fall of Harvey Weinstein has no answers for Hollywood’s sexual abuse problem. It’s too afraid to…
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Jafar Panahi’s No Bears shows the political power of filmmaking
Banned from making movies, the Iranian director has nevertheless created a formidable body of work – an uprising in cinematic…
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A new Emily Brontë biopic joins the dots between life and literature
Frances O’Connor’s Emily treats events in Brontë’s life like furniture to be rearranged on a whim.
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The hollow feminism of “empowering” Hollywood thrillers
From Don’t Worry Darling to Promising Young Woman, a recent wave of purportedly feminist films have shallow, simplistic messages.
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The Lost King: a sly, subversive take on the discovery of Richard III
Sally Hawkins and Steve Coogan star in Stephen Frears’ witty dramatisation of the monarch’s extraction from a Leicester car park.
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Don’t Worry Darling is a derivative let-down
Olivia Wilde’s film about an idyllic 1950s community reflects modern anxieties but has little new to say.
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How Jean-Luc Godard changed cinema
The pioneering French New Wave director has died at the age of 91. It is impossible to overestimate the breadth,…
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David Cronenberg, master of body horror, returns with Crimes of the Future
It’s been 20 years since he dabbled in gore, but the award-winning director is back at the operating table.
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The Forgiven is a tough and unrelenting film noir
Starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, this film has been both critically admired and rounded on as a repellent display…
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Antonio Banderas and the art of self-parody
In Official Competition, a sharp satire of arthouse cinema, the actor plays a version of himself for laughs.
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Jordan Peele’s Nope blends the political and the cinematic
In the award-winning director’s new sci-fi horror there are too many meanings to be absorbed in just one viewing.
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The return of the road-trip movie
Hit the Road and Joyride both have a long-distance car ride at their centre – but one takes a route…
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