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Blithe Spirit review – unhappy reimagining of Coward's classic
Not even Judi Dench can save this feeble remake of the playwright’s 1941 comedy
Read more » | Desktop version »Stardust review – David Bowie biopic has no sparkle
This clumsy fictionalised account of Bowie’s formative first US tour is as pedestrian as its subject was remarkable
Read more » | Desktop version »Dear Comrades! review – dreams and disillusionment of a Communist party stalwart
The deadly Soviet response to a workers’ strike tests a mother’s faith in communism in Andrei Konchalovsky’s harrowing drama based on true events
Read more » | Desktop version »Space oddity: song rejected by Kubrick for 2001 released after 52 years
Stanley Kubrick asked a young publicist to write a track for his movie, but didn’t use it. Now we can all hear it
Read more » | Desktop version »MLK/FBI review – state-sanctioned harassment of a hero
This clever documentary explores the security service’s tireless attempts to discredit Martin Luther King
Read more » | Desktop version »Patricia Highsmith at 100: the best film adaptations
Shape-shifting Tom Ripley, ill-met strangers on a train… cinema’s love affair with Highsmith’s thrillers was immediate, and shows no signs of cooling off
Read more » | Desktop version »Shock, no awe: how grim drama Pieces of a Woman fails to portray trauma
The Oscar-tipped Netflix drama centers on a harrowing and effective scene of loss yet its attempt to deal with the fallout fails to ring true
Read more » | Desktop version »Can Marvel's Kevin Feige make the Star Wars movies soar again?
Now the Marvel head honcho has been brought into the fold, the Star Wars saga needs to try something more thrilling than it current cosy, reactive approach
Read more » | Desktop version »‘The eye of the storm’: how 76 Days captured Wuhan’s Covid lockdown up close
The co-director of the haunting documentary, filmed inside the city’s hospitals during the first outbreak, explains why it is so important
Read more » | Desktop version »Hear me out: why The Phantom Menace isn't a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers defending maligned movies is a plea to revisit George Lucas’s loathed first Star Wars prequel
Read more » | Desktop version »Joan Micklin Silver obituary
Film-maker best known for the 1988 romantic comedy Crossing Delancey
Read more » | Desktop version »Outside the Wire review – competent Netflix thriller toys with big ideas
Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris shoulder an overlong yet serviceable action film that pushes an anti-war message in among familiar carnage
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