Movies
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4 out of 5 stars.
Toronto film festival 2018 Hotel Mumbai review – Dev Patel terror story is an unlikely crowd-pleaser
4 out of 5 stars.Patel is subdued yet excellent in Anthony Maras’s white-knuckle retelling of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks -
2 out of 5 stars.
Toronto film festival 2018 Quincy review – portrait of a musical legend fails to sing
2 out of 5 stars.Rashida Jones’s sanitised bio-documentary about her father, the musician and producer Quincy Jones, fails to exploit her access to her subject
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Stage and screen actor best known for her roles in the Carry On films and as Cynthia Kite in the 1959 classic I’m All Right Jack -
2 out of 5 stars.
Toronto film festival 2018 Ben is Back review – Julia Roberts can't save middling addiction drama
2 out of 5 stars.Strong performances from the Oscar winner and Lucas Hedges enliven a patchy film about a mother dealing with the return of her addict son -
3 out of 5 stars.
Toronto film festival 2018 Skin review – Jamie Bell swaps nazism for love in moral tale of far right
3 out of 5 stars.Drama based on true story of a reformed American white supremacist opts for sensationalism over complexity
Toronto film festival
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Thelma and Louise star was among the actors and directors who shared tactics at the Toronto film festival for overcoming gender inequality -
4 out of 5 stars.
Review If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins' tragic romance soars
4 out of 5 stars.With his follow-up to best picture winner Moonlight, the writer-director brings James Baldwin’s 1974 novel to the screen with heartbreaking, visually audacious results -
2 out of 5 stars.
Director David Gordon Green returns us to Haddonfield for a slasher reunion but the much hyped face-off between two old foes is frustratingly routine -
2 out of 5 stars.
Where Hands Touch – interracial Nazi romance is a well-intentioned bore
2 out of 5 stars.Amma Asante follows up A United Kingdom with a potentially fascinating yet ultimately uninvolving story of a biracial German girl falling for a Nazi
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5 out of 5 stars.
American Animals Audacious stupidity and teeth-clenching thrills
5 out of 5 stars.Bart Layton’s true-crime heist caper about an incompetent plan to steal valuable books from a college library is a triumph -
4 out of 5 stars.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post coming-of-age in the glare of prejudice
4 out of 5 stars.In Desiree Akhavan’s affecting drama, Chloë Grace Moretz plays an orphaned teenager packed off to a creepy camp for her sexuality to be ‘corrected’ -
The team involved with a centre in the eastern Congo that acts as a refuge for women who have survived violence discuss the impact of their work
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Operation Finale – disappointing Nazi thriller fails to convince
2 out of 5 stars. -
The Little Stranger – Ruth Wilson shines in mournful ghost story
4 out of 5 stars.
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Video & Audio
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The actor Adam Pearson has a similar condition to Joseph Merrick, whose story was told in The Elephant Man. When the BBC was remaking the biopic, he did not even get an audition
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Burt Reynolds speaks candidly with Hadley Freeman about his varied career in film, the important relationships in his life and a clash with Marlon Brando
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The American actor Burt Reynolds has died aged 82. His manager confirmed the news on Thursday that Reynolds died that morning at Jupiter Medical Center in Florida. The star had undergone a quintuple heart bypass in February 2010 but had been working until recently.
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What does a film about a black man going undercover with white terrorists tell us about the state of contemporary America and beyond?
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The actor and director addresses allegations of harassment for the first time, saying he contributed to an unprofessional environment on the set of his film I'm Still Here
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The movie industry has seen tech advances since its inception. But do audiences really want to have a say in a film’s plot?
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The 1963 arrival of Billy Liar looked like the beginnings of a more democratic, working-class film industry. So why are we still stuck with polite social realism and sniggery classism? -
I interviewed Reynolds three years ago ready to be wooed by his breezy charm. Instead, his pain, pills – and professionalism – left me deeply moved
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From The Miseducation of Cameron Post to Apostasy, a new generation of film-makers are railing against the strictures of scripture -
This year sees the release of two films based on the Utøya island attack – but what can a film based on real events tell us that documentary footage or eyewitness testimony cannot?
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From the clock in High Noon to the watch in Pulp Fiction, the US artist turned thousands of film clips into a 24-hour epic that tells the actual time. As the cult work returns to London, the place of its birth, he relives three years of toil -
The Chinese-born director on reinventing the western, the power of limitation and why America feels like home -
Saadat Hasan Manto chronicled Bombay life in all its ugly beauty – until sectarian horrors were unleashed on the streets he loved. A new biopic by director Nandita Das retells his stories
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He wrote the soundtracks to some of the greatest films ever, winning Oscars and partying with the stars. As he hits Britain, the 86-year-old Frenchman recalls fights with his mother – and benders with Miles Davis -
Brought up in foster care, the Irish actor’s ability to charm and terrify has made him one of Hollywood’s most recognisable young faces – and he’s only just getting started -
Documentary Midnight Oil: 1984 captures the band riding high with their first number one album – but Peter Garrett was on the verge of leaving for politics
Regulars
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Shark tale The Meg and Mamma Mia! sequel hold on to higher placings as Idris Elba’s crime thriller Yardie fails to crack Top 10 -
4 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week The Miseducation of Cameron Post review – poignant, witty, defiant
4 out of 5 stars.Chloë Grace Moretz stars in Desiree Akhavan’s bittersweet drama tracking the doubts and defiance of a teenager sent to a gay conversion facility in 90s Montana -
Women are not well served in LGBT cinema but two niche networks are attempting to redress the balance -
The allure of Gotham turned on its head is powerful, but is a republican Thomas Wayne just stunt-casting?
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The moon-landing movie has sparked a furore for failing to show the planting of a US flag. But Hollywood has a long, complicated relationship with the final frontier
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With Bart Layton’s new true-crime film, literary robbery stories have finally found Hollywood’s spotlight. There are others lurking in the library -
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