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February 1, 2021Once upon a time in the north: ‘High Ground’
Stephen Maxwell Johnson’s foray into Australia’s violent colonial history is a visually spectacular, if overfamiliar, revisionist Western
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February 1, 2021Once upon a time in the north: ‘High Ground’
Stephen Maxwell Johnson’s foray into Australia’s violent colonial history is a visually spectacular, if overfamiliar, revisionist Western
Culture
December 1, 2020Citizen plain: ‘Mank’
David Fincher’s biopic of Orson Welles’s collaborating writer favours technique over heart
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November 1, 2020The long goodbye: ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson deals with her father’s decline into dementia by “killing” him through various means
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October 1, 2020Body politic: ‘Boys State’
American democracy is documented in all its gangly, acne-mottled glory
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September 1, 2020‘Cinematic’ television: ‘ZeroZeroZero’
Forget comparisons to cinema, TV is developing its own compelling aesthetic
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August 1, 2020America’s imperfect angels: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
Post Black Lives Matter, the hit musical already feels like a souvenir from a vanished pre-Trump America
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July 1, 2020The death of cool: Michel Piccoli, 1925–2020
Re-watching the films of the most successful screen actor of the 20th century
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June 1, 2020Her too: ‘The Assistant’
Melbourne-born, New York–based filmmaker Kitty Green’s powerfully underplayed portrait of Hollywood’s abusive culture
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May 1, 2020Consolations in isolation: ‘The Platform’ and ‘Free in Deed’
What is the future of cinema without cinemas?
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April 1, 2020Properly British: Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’
A multicultural vision underscores the acclaimed British satirist’s endearing Dickensian romp
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March 3, 2020Everything new is old again: The 2020 Berlin Film Festival
Even with a new artistic director, this year’s Berlinale failed to inspire
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March 1, 2020They came, they saw: Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s ‘Honeyland’
A breathtaking North Macedonian film about Europe’s last female keeper of wild bees exists compellingly at the intersection of documentary and fiction
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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