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Film of the week: The Spirit of ’45

Where went our dreams of building a better tomorrow, asks Ken Loach (and friends)?

Film of the week: Side Effects

Too slippery for its own good, this medical/corporate/sometime-erotic thriller is not the film with which Steven Soderbergh should hang up his boots, writes Trevor Johnston.

Film of the week: Caesar Must Die

Italy’s Taviani brothers return with a triumphant rendition of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in a Roman prison, writes Philip Kemp.

Film of the week: Lore

A teenager steers her four younger siblings through a mortally surreal landscape in this eerie portrait of WWII-torn Germany, writes Roger Clarke.

Film of the week: To the Wonder

Look afresh at Terrence Malick’s first contemporaneously set movie, writes Nick Pinkerton, and you’ll see gold in these visions.

Film of the week: Gangs of Wasseypur / Gangs of Wasseypur II

Anurag Kashyap’s sprawling, scintillating gangster saga could be the international breakout that Indian cinema has been waiting for, writes Naman Ramachandran.

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