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Steven Spielberg returns to the theme of alien visitors with this all-star, much-anticipated blockbuster.
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Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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30 years of Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies: how the London locations look today
Three decades after it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, we went looking for the locations where Mike Leigh shot his bittersweet drama about an adopted daughter reconnecting with her birth mother.
By Adam Scovell
A close encounter with Steven Spielberg
By Richard Combs
The Dreamed Adventure: Valeska Grisebach’s haunting slow-burn western unearths dirty dealings in rural Bulgaria
By Savina Petkova
Inside a 1959 fan magazine for Marilyn Monroe
By Tamar Jeffers-McDonald
Time and Water: Iceland’s vanishing glaciers haunt this moving climate essay
By Rachel Pronger
The film that fate helped make a classic: The Misfits
By Geoff Andrew
Bitter Christmas: Pedro Almodóvar makes himself the butt of the joke in a slippery meta drama
By Jessica Kiang
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