Film review: Empire of Light, and two giveaways

Sam Mendes writes and directs this prestige drama that in spite of Olivia Coleman’s tremendous performance, fails to hit the right buttons.

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Film review: Aftersun, Cocaine Bear

This week, one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking British debuts in recent memory, and a film so ludicrously entertaining that it’s hard to believe…

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Film review: Women Talking, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania

Sarah Polley’s thought-provoking Women Talking confronts oppression and patriarchy as two interchangeable concepts, while Marvel’s Ant-Man does the bare minimum

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Film review: The son, Corsage and ticket giveaway

The director of The Father continues his trilogy, and Vicky Krieps helms a new type of period drama.

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Film review: The Whale and Knock at the Door

Two established filmmakers succumb to their worst whims in two fairly mediocre films that are ironically both saved by a tremendous central performance.

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Film review: Tár

Cate Blanchett’s immense masterclass performance deserves to be studied years to come in Todd Field’s expertly designed story about the self-destructive power of the ego.

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Film review: Babylon

Bodily fluids flow freely in Damien Chazelle’s satire? Homage? Sure it’s a mess, but is it entertaining enough to excuse its shortcomings?

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Film review: M3gan

The team behind Malignant delivers again a surprisingly entertaining and unpretentious film.

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Film review: The Fabelmans and A Man Called Otto

In the tail end of his career, Steven Spielberg finally goes deeply personal with The Fabelmans, and in A Man Called Otto, Tom Hanks’ miscast…

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Film review: The Banshees of Inisherin and The Lost King

Martin McDonagh returns to form after his Oscar success, and Stephen Frears does the minimum on his new simple, but forgettable, film.

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