Jonathan Romney
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The New Boy: realism is undercut by magic in Warwick Thornton’s Outback fable
A young indigenous boy with perplexing powers is forcibly brought to a Christian orphanage led by the alcoholic Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett) in Warwick Thornton’s sketchy, fragmented drama.
By Jonathan Romney
The New Boy: realism is undercut by magic in Warwick Thornton’s Outback fable
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Four Daughters: the facts and fictions of a Tunisian family’s history blur in this fascinating hybrid documentary
By Jonathan Romney
Festivals
Pepe: Pablo Escobar’s philosophical hippo takes viewers on a radically inventive journey
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Napoleon: Ridley Scott’s confident biopic confirms his own status as a cinematic general
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Paris Memories: an ambitious but flawed drama
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Oppenheimer: Nolan’s dazzling expressionistic flourishes bring this sombre chamber drama to life
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Pamfir: an otherworldly Ukrainian gangster movie
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From the Sight and Sound archive
The first slacker film noir: The Big Lebowski reviewed in 1998
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Le formiche di Mida: an eccentric essay in Marxist animism
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Thiiird: this portrait of an elderly Beirut mechanic is rich, strange and profound
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Luka: an airless, hermetic slice of black-and-white Europudding
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January: a Beckettian Bulgarian chamber piece
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The Fabelmans: Spielberg’s candid autofiction is disappointingly schematic
By Jonathan Romney
Festivals
The Kiev Trial: another chilling war-crimes documentary from Sergei Loznitsa
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What to watch at LFF
Nezouh: a dreamy picture of life under siege
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What to watch at LFF
What to watch at LFF: French cinema’s new generation
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Flux Gourmet: Peter Strickland’s latest slice of fanciful formalism
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Blonde: shock snapshots of a star’s martyrdom on the altar of showbiz patriarchy
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L’Immensità: a heartfelt but overly insistent drama
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The Forgiven: a caustic tale of Western decadence in Morocco
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Official Competition: a delectable, riotous farce
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A Chiara review: an expressionistic coming-of-age drama
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The Afterlight: a film of immortals en route to oblivion
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The Velvet Queen takes viewers on a quasi-mystical, indulgent search for a snow leopard
By Jonathan Romney
Interviews
“She just set the screen alight”: Laura Wandel on Playground and its child star
By Jonathan Romney
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The Ipcress File series digs deep into the backstory of Harry Palmer
By Jonathan Romney
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Flux Gourmet: Strickland’s conceptual feast plays up a comically heightened Englishness
By Jonathan Romney