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Ranked! Winona Ryder's 20 best films
From the turkeys to the triumphs, Ryder’s 30-year career has taken her from the too-bad-to-be-missed depths of The House of the Spirits to some much more intriguing choices
Read more » | Desktop version »Star Wars spin-offs put on hold after Solo crashes at box office
Lucasfilm said to be focusing on ‘official’ episodes of franchise after disappointing results for prequel
Read more » | Desktop version »Kissing Candice review – dream lover brought to startling life
Aoife McArdle’s tale of a teenager rescued in reality by a stranger from her fantasies is an audacious delight
Read more » | Desktop version »'There was a lot of panic' - behind the first movies to tackle the Aids crisis
Before Philadelphia won two Oscars, a set of smaller films dealt with the pandemic and those involved talk about the battles they faced getting their stories on screen
Read more » | Desktop version »Little Vera review – nudity and sex behind the iron curtain
Made in the final years of the Soviet Union, the sensational tale of a sexually voracious teenager was the key perestroika movie
Read more » | Desktop version »Boom for Real review – the young Jean-Michel Basquiat as a brilliant enigma
Sara Driver’s documentary about the artist’s early years draws a vivid picture of 70s New York but fails to get under its subject’s skin
Read more » | Desktop version »Brothers' Nest review – a comedy-horror so black that it's not funny
Eleven years after Kenny, Shane and Clayton Jacobson team up again for another comedy classic – this one stranger, darker and ickier
Read more » | Desktop version »Is Steve Trevor's return in Wonder Woman 2 just another absurd resurrection?
From Batman to Superman, you can’t keep a superhero dead for long. Now, Wonder Woman 1984 will have to do some explaining
Read more » | Desktop version »Freak Show review – Trudie Styler looks for the funny side of bullying
Alex Lawther plays a gay high-schooler with dreams of being homecoming queen in this smug, overcooked comedy drama
Read more » | Desktop version »Disney raises offer for 21st Century Fox to $71.3bn and outflanks Comcast
A 50/50 mix of cash and shares is bid to beat rival to bulk of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment empire
Read more » | Desktop version »Puzzle review – Kelly Macdonald sees the big picture in jigsaw indie
A suburban New York mother hemmed in by chores finds unfashionably analogue freedom in jigsaw puzzles in this modest yet touching drama
Read more » | Desktop version »Who needs film critics? Actually, we all do
Accusations of a lack of diversity among reviewers raises the bigger question of whether they have a role to play at all in the new landscape of cinema
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