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An eye on the outlier: ‘Nitram’
Justin Kurzel’s biopic of the Port Arthur killer is a warning on suburban neglect and gun control
The life solipsistic: ‘The French Dispatch’
Wes Anderson’s film about a New Yorker–style magazine is simultaneously trivial and exhausting
True to form: ‘No Sudden Move’
Steven Soderbergh’s Detroit crime movie is another formal experiment with commercial trappings
Forebodings and a funeral: ‘Shiva Baby’
Emma Seligman’s funny but tense film is a triumph of writing and performance over spectacle
David Fincher’s biopic of Orson Welles’s collaborating writer favours technique over heart
The long goodbye: ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson deals with her father’s decline into dementia by “killing” him through various means
American democracy is documented in all its gangly, acne-mottled glory
America’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
The death of cool: Michel Piccoli, 1925–2020
Re-watching the films of the most successful screen actor of the 20th century
Melbourne-born, New York–based filmmaker Kitty Green’s powerfully underplayed portrait of Hollywood’s abusive culture