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January 24, 2020Kills, frills and Kelly aches: Justin Kurzel’s ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’
The Australian director brings a welcome sense of style to the unusually malleable story
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November 1, 2019Late style: Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’
Reuniting with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci, the acclaimed director has delivered less of a Mob film than a morality play
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September 25, 2019No one’s laughing now: Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’
A gripping psychological study of psychosis offers a surprising change of pace in the superhero genre
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September 16, 2019Venice International Film Festival 2019
Théo Court’s masterful ‘Blanco en Blanco’ is a bright point in a largely lacklustre line-up
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August 1, 2019Popcorn maker: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’
The tide may have turned against the director’s juvenile instincts and misogynist violence
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July 2, 2019Art life: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s ‘Never Look Away’ and Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’
By barely disguising an account of the life of Gerhard Richter, the German director fails the artist and filmgoers
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June 2, 2019A master’s misstep: Claire Denis’ ‘High Life’
The French auteur chooses a sci-fi film to start over-explaining things
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May 1, 2019Killer instincts: The ‘John Wick’ franchise
Keanu Reeves hones his stardom in the hyperreal violence of an assassin’s tale
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April 1, 2019Haruki to Highsmith: Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Burning’
Mr Ripley echoes through a masterful tale of class tensions in Seoul
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March 5, 2019A showcase of the unexceptional: the 2019 Berlin Film Festival
This year’s offerings did little to arrest the event’s apparent decline
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February 2, 2019The spectacle of a political scandal: Jason Reitman’s ‘The Front Runner’ and Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Loro’
New films about ’80s presidential hopeful Gary Hart and Italy’s controversial Silvio Berlusconi both miss the mark
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December 1, 2018Pawel Pawlikowski’s perfectly formed ‘Cold War’
Not a moment is wasted in what could be the Polish director’s masterpiece
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October 1, 2018A man and his bear: Marc Forster’s ‘Christopher Robin’
Adults will find this new tale of Winnie the Pooh surprisingly moving
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September 25, 2018Toronto International Film Festival 2018 (part two)
The ordinary and the extraordinary at this year’s event, and the perils of criticism
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September 14, 2018Toronto International Film Festival 2018 (part one)
A British outlier and a British newcomer are among the stand-outs in the first part of the festival