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    Why Drive My Car should've won Best Picture

    Drive My Car review ★★★★★

    28 Mar 22 – 28 Mar 23

    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's three-hour triumph lost Best Picture at this year's Oscars, but deserved better. A delicate odyssey through grief and storytelling, Drive My Car was the best film of 2021

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    Parallel Mothers is a glorified, yet fun, soap opera

    Parallel Mothers review ★★★★★

    28 Jan 22 – 28 Jan 23

    Penélope Cruz stars in Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, which follows a soap-y and complicated relationship between two mothers

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    Mads Mikkelsen stars in drunken Oscar-winner

    Another Round review ★★★★★

    02 Jul 21 – 02 Jul 22

    Former Dogma 95 filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Festen) makes a drunken Danish odyssey about four teachers who experiment with daily drinking. Mads Mikkelsen stars

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    A dark, fascinating odyssey across war-torn Europe

    The Painted Bird review ★★★★★

    11 Sep 20 – 11 Sep 21

    Stellan Skarsgård and Harvey Keitel star in Václav Marhoul's The Painted Bird, a Jobian odyssey across eastern Europe during the Nazi occupation

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    Portraits of the portraitists: the best films about artists

    The best films about artists' lives

    From Willem Dafoe's turn at Vincent van Gogh to an epic depiction of Gerhard Richter's life, here are the most colourful portraits of the great artists

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    A bizarre, genre-clashing community drama

    Bacurau review ★★★★★

    20 Mar 20 – 20 Mar 21

    Brazilian filmmakers Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles love to confuse and raise adrenaline with their bizarre genre-clasher Bacurau

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    A stirring, interpretive portrait of an artist

    Never Look Away review ★★★★★

    05 Jul 19 – 05 Jul 20

    In the Oscar-nominated Never Look Away, artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) endures a lifelong search for his aesthetic identity following the Nazi occupation and Soviet rule

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    This spooky Swedish drama is superb

    Border film review ★★★★★

    08 Mar 19 – 08 Mar 20

    Nordic folklore is combined with grisly crimes in a Swedish genre-bender Border, based on the writings of John Ajvide Lindqvist

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    Cannes' diamond Shoplifters draws a beautiful family portrait

    Shoplifters film review ★★★★★

    23 Nov 18 – 23 Nov 19

    Innocence and experience jostle in Shoplifters, a beautiful, alchemical family drama from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda who snapped up the Palme d'Or at Cannes

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    Love it or loathe it, Gaspar Noé is back

    Climax film review ★★★★★

    19 Sep 18 – 19 Sep 19

    Gaspar Noé returns with Climax, another piece of provocation, blending sex, drugs and faux-philosophical musings

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    Cold War is the greatest love story you'll witness this year

    Cold War film review ★★★★★

    31 Aug 18 – 31 Aug 19

    The latest film from UK-based Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski, Cold War is a chilling black-and-white melodic odyssey through Communist Europe, Paris and beyond

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    Coming out this summer: best blockbusters of 2018

    Coming out this summer: best blockbusters of 2018

    From the fun to the feelgood to the fast and furious, here are the best blockbusters of 2018 coming out this summer

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    Diane Kruger takes law into her own hands

    In the Fade ★★★★★

    22 Jun 18 – 22 Jun 19

    Boasting a stellar performance from model-actress Diane Kruger, In the Fade tracks one woman's lonely fight for justice in a country not quite finished with its dark nationalist past

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    The Ciambra: essential viewing for Italophiles

    The Ciambra ★★★★★

    15 Jun 18 – 15 Jun 19

    The Ciambra is an effective and affecting expose of life on the fringes of Italian society and an overdue update on one of the country’s defining cinematic ages

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    We're doubtful about L'Amant double

    L'Amant double film review ★★★★★

    26 May 17 – 26 Jul 17

    The latest offering from François Ozon, L'Amant double is a ripe gorgonzola of a film that will be enjoyed by drunk film students for years to come

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    Ismael's Ghosts left us feeling hollow

    Ismael’s Ghosts review ★★★★★

    16 Dec 17 – 31 Jan 18

    A star-studded cast featuring Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsborough can’t save the latest from Arnaud Desplechin, Ismael's Ghosts from partially sinking under the weight of symbolism-induced hollowness

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    Cannes round-up: the best and buzziest

    Cannes 2018 round-up: the buzziest and the best films

    Here's what you'll be watching next: the buzziest and best films that screened at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

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    Crazy, sexy, cool: Let the Sunshine In

    Let the Sunshine In film review ★★★★★

    29 Apr 18 – 30 Apr 18

    Gold Whisper members see Juliette Binoche in Let the Sunshine In at the French Institute

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    Custody: Hitchcock would be proud

    Custody film review ★★★★★

    13 Apr 18 – 13 Apr 19

    An accomplished debut from French director Xavier Legrand, Custody is a masterclass in Hitchcockian suspense centred on a child stuck in his parents' broken marriage

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  • Tried and Tested

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    The film to make the art world go ape

    The Square film review ★★★★★

    16 Mar 18 – 15 Mar 19

    Taking a satirical shot at the contemporary art scene, The Square is another immensely satisfying drama from Force Majeure director Ruben Östlund featuring Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West

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    Berlinale 2018's shock winner

    Touch Me Not film review ★★★★★

    Dull, voyeuristic and fetishising: Touch Me Not’s success at the Berlinale 2018 is a devastating decision for the festival

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    Who took home the gold on Hollywood's biggest night?

    Who won at the Oscars 2018?

    Here's a list of the Oscars 2018 winners and nominees

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    Meet the director making impossible things happen

    Sebastián Lelio interview

    We interview Sebastián Lelio, director of Gloria and the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman, about his chances at the Academy Awards, his influences and city life

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    This is 2018's Best Foreign Language Film

    A Fantastic Woman film review ★★★★★

    02 Mar 18 – 02 Mar 19

    From Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, A Fantastic Woman is a compelling and deeply personal portrait of a trans woman's fight for recognition with a standout performance from Daniela Vega

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    'Miraculous': film about superhero refugee is magic

    Jupiter's Moon film review ★★★★★

    05 Jan 18 – 04 Jan 19

    Jupiter's Moon has a dream-like premise but is very much set in reality

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  • Tried and Tested

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    'Sparkling, intoxicating and intensely moreish': Call Me By Your Name film review

    Call Me By Your Name film review ★★★★★

    27 Oct 17 – 07 Mar 19

    Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name is a heady coming-of-age drama about desire, ripe for rewatching with dazzling performances from Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer

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    Killing Ground film review

    Killing Ground film review ★★★★★

    On 29 Sep 17

    Killing Ground is a slightly twisty horror from Australia that is unfortunately not Wolf Creek – and seems to be a bit a little upset that it’s not

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    Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud talks feminism, fatwas and her debut film

    Maysaloun Hamoud interview

    The debut feature from Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud, In Between, upset Islamic authorities. Not afraid of the controversy, she remains as fierce, funny and intelligent as her film

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  • Tried and Tested

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    In Between film review

    In Between film review ★★★★★

    22 Sep 17 – 11 Jul 19

    Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud ruffled some feathers in the Middle East with her debut feature but, controversy aside, In Between is accomplished, poignant and, at times, genuinely empowering

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    Stellan Skarsgård interview: 'I'm not supposed to shut up!'

    Stellan Skarsgård interview

    Ahead of his appearance in tennis biopic Borg/McEnroe (and filming for the Mamma Mia! sequel), Swedish star Stellan Skarsgård talks about life on set, Scandinavian culture and his talented sons

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    The BFI London Film Festival 2017: tickets to book before they sell out

    The BFI London Film Festival 2017: tickets to book before they sell out

    Booking for the 61st BFI London Film Festival is open. Here's our pick of the latest and greatest films that are going to sell out fast

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    IT film review

    IT film review ★★★★★

    08 Sep 17 – 06 Feb 19

    The first movie adaptation of Stephen King’s IT has plenty of terrifying tricks up its sleeve — but it’s the kids’ clowning around that steals the show

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