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A Bird Flew in review – heartfelt portrait of film-makers struggling with lockdown
Ensemble study of film professionals struggling with enforced isolation features some good performances but doesn’t really come together
Read more » | Desktop version »Love Around the World review – the happy-clappy global family of coupling up
Andela and Davor Rostuhar spent the first year of their marriage looking into relationships around the world for this sweet-natured documentary
Read more » | Desktop version »The Good Nurse: real-life medics cast in Eddie Redmayne film to add realism
Exclusive: Tobias Lindholm had sought to make the lead actors’ performances more ‘naturalistic’
Read more » | Desktop version »Michael Walker obituary
Other lives: Critic, author and cinephile who became one of the first teachers of film studies at A-level
Read more » | Desktop version »The empty feminism of Don’t Worry Darling
After all of the buzz, rumors and reports of conflict, Olivia Wilde’s slippery 50s-set thriller doesn’t really have much of anything to say
Read more » | Desktop version »Pure Grit review – melancholy tale of love and Rocky mountain bareback horse racing
This mesmerising documentary follows the turbulent life of a young Native American woman as she returns to racing after a year off
Read more » | Desktop version »Salt for Svanetia review – poetic, dreamlike Soviet documentary of forgotten world
Mikhail Kalatozov’s 1930s film gives a fascinating account of a medieval-style society about the supposed blessings of the USSR’s modernising impact
Read more » | Desktop version »My Sunny Maad review – culture shock animation for woman’s Afghan love
Despite its visual appeal, the characters in Czech animator Michaela Pavlátová’s clash-of-values family drama struggle to get past sorrowful stereotypes
Read more » | Desktop version »Wood and Water review – slender but powerful tale of a mother in search of her son
Left to fend for herself when she arrives in Hong Kong with protests in full swing, a German woman makes a series of chance encounters
Read more » | Desktop version »Oh, Mr Porter! That’s a terrible portrayal by Kevin Kline | Brief letters
Brief letters: Bad performances | Toilet tales | Monty Pythonesque | Royal barge | Marching to an earworm
Read more » | Desktop version »Louise Fletcher obituary
American actor who won an Oscar for her role as Nurse Ratched in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Read more » | Desktop version »Silent Land review – chilly drama of retribution on idyllic Italian island
There’s trouble in paradise as a wealthy couple’s luxury villa holiday hits the rocks in Aga Woszczynska’s impressive cautionary tale of selfish privilege
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