Movies
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As the final credits roll at this year’s film festival, a contentious lineup has left audiences with more questions than answers
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From shoplifting kids to a girl growing up in the wild, a crop of films at Cannes focus on children finding unusual ways to navigate a terrifying modern world -
5 out of 5 stars.
The Turkish director’s unhurried, magnificently acted film follows a bumptious young writer who returns home to face bittersweet truths -
Our writers picked their peaks of cinematic sadness and you responded with animated elephants, Christmas melancholy and emotional reunions -
The admission that Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian is pansexual is the latest tiring attempt at inclusivity without any big screen proof
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3 out of 5 stars.
Deadpool 2 – struggles to be subversive despite weapons-grade gags
3 out of 5 stars.Ryan Reynolds’ ability to conjure laughs from pain are fantastic, but there are ethnic stereotypes here that need an upgrade -
3 out of 5 stars.
On Chesil Beach – sensitive translation of Ian McEwan’s elegy to inhibited England
3 out of 5 stars.Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan are on song as the young couple in Britain’s duffel-coated early 1960s, in a restrained adaptation of McEwan’s novella
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3 out of 5 stars.
Paul Schrader fans won’t find his new drama a revelation – but Hawke fills the flawed holy man template well
Video & Audio
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Nina Gold’s role is invisible, and yet her taste has shaped much of what we watch on film and TV -
Melding archival footage with drama, artist Matthew Sleeth's gut-wrenching film aims to capture the final 72 hours of the Bali Nine drug trafficker, who was executed by Indonesian firing squad in April 2015
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The visual artist reveals how her installation Turbulent built a community among the Iranian diaspora in New York, and expressed her feelings for her homeland
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This film by Kathryn Millard 20 dramatises the stories of three women who took part in the psychologist Stanley Milgram’s ‘Obedience to Authority’ experiments in 1962, and insisted on being heard
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Frances McDormand uses her best actress speech for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to ask all the female nominees in the audience to stand up together, saying they all have stories to tell and projects that need finance
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The imagination of suburban Sydney in the late 1950s was seized by a series of night-time attacks, the work of a mysterious figure the tabloids dubbed 'the Kingsgrove Slasher'
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From Toy Story 2 to Under the Skin, writers pick the cinematic moments that made them cry and explain why. Spoilers ahead -
Solo and Rogue One have both struck gold after hiring an old hand to resolve early chaos. Coincidence? -
The first teaser for Bohemian Rhapsody has landed, and there’s a distinct lack of anything wild or interesting -
It was dismissed as a ‘sugar-coated lie’ by Pauline Kael – but The Sound of Music’s enduring success suggests audiences enjoy being manipulated. Just look at Mamma Mia!
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The actor’s ability to find lightness in tragedy put him on the radar. But it’s his astonishing performance in On Chesil Beach that will make him a star. He talks to Megan Conner about his northern roots, why acting is still a class issue and his obsession with the seaside -
The actor on a lucky necklace, a brush with the law and putting on his own play -
Entebbe sees actor play Brigitte Kuhlmann, who held 248 passengers hostage on Air France flight in 1976
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The Office star has found global fame in the Hobbit and Marvel franchises – but the pressure from fans and the press to be ‘affable’ is making him anything but -
More than 20 years ago, the actor was anointed ‘the coolest girl in the world’. As her new film opens, she talks about A-list movie stars hogging the best TV roles and why she chose not to add her voice to #MeToo -
Léonor Serraille and Laetitia Dosch are the director and star of Jeune Femme, a Cannes prize-winning comedy about a young woman trying to stay afloat in Paris. Here, the pair discuss eccentrics, Greta Gerwig and being able to bounce back
Regulars
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Disney has been trumpeting their success at UK box office, but claims their film has overtaken The Dark Knight Rises fail to account for price inflation -
3 out of 5 stars.
Mark Kermode's film of the week Redoubtable review – the follies of Jean-Luc Godard exposed
3 out of 5 stars.Michel Hazanavicius’s account of New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard in the days of the Paris riots is sharply irreverent -
The animation giant’s UK-only streaming service offers round-the-clock Mary Poppins, Frozen outtakes and value for money -
The Star Trek’s franchise’s penchant for alternative timelines could allow it to bring back Chris Hemsworth’s Kirk Sr, or get Quentin Tarantino on board
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There was a mass walkout at the Cannes premiere of von Trier’s The House that Jack Built. From A Clockwork Orange to Driller Killer, cinema has always courted controversy – but could we be entering a more cautious age? -
In a new film, previously unseen footage of Big and Little Edie reveals an added depth to what was previously explored in the acclaimed Maysles documentary -
Here are the posters for some of this year’s worst offenders ...
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Before he became a director, Kubrick spent five years as a photographer for Look magazine, specialising in slice-of-life picture essays -
3 out of 5 stars.
Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance A brain-numbing charmer from Lifetime
3 out of 5 stars.The story of how a prince fell in love with an actor is brought to life in a guilty pleasure – a cliche-packed TV movie that is as sweet as it is silly -
From Star Trek to Captain Marvel, a super squad of female film-makers are proving action and sci-fi movies aren’t just for the boys
Cannes 2018 cheering – if baffling – set of prizes cap a curious year
Shoplifters takes Palme d'Or
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