
Reminders of Him review – contrived Colleen Hoover romance has its charms
The third big screen adaptation of the BookTok-loved author’s novels is ludicrously plotted yet slickly made and easily consumed
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‘Our bond is private. Some things have to stay between us’: Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo on smoking, cinema and secrets
A drama about a president at the end of his career, La Grazia is the director’s finest film since The Great Beauty. As he reunites with his longtime collaborator, the pair discuss ageing, loyalty and the mysterious energy that has bound them for more than two decades
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The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife
The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film
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And the least likable character is … how Oscar season became dominated by difficult people
From Marty Supreme to One Battle After Another, this awards run has been populated by a harder-to-love group of spiky characters
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Why The Secret Agent should win the best picture Oscar
Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the race
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‘People feel like they’re in on the joke’: the new wave of pseudo-biopics
It’s not about John Bishop, Anna Wintour or Bill Clinton, but … Screen stories about pop stars, actors, sporting heroes or politicians bend fact by steering close to the deeds, or misdeeds, of real celebrities. What’s behind their rise?
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Queen at Sea review – crushingly sad dementia drama offers a startling portrait of intimacy
Driven by fine performances from Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall, Lance Hammer’s comeback is unbearable in its tragic candour and essential in its moral questioning
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Rose review – Sandra Hüller is outstanding in grimy examination of gender stereotypes
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer’s captivating film follows a woman passing herself off a man in 17th-century rural Germany
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The Blood Countess review – Isabelle Huppert reigns supreme in a surreal vampire fantasia
Vienna turns into a playground of camp, cruelty and aristocratic disdain in a blackly comic take on the Báthory legend – with Huppert gloriously suited to the title role
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At the Sea review – Amy Adams plays it overly straight in insufferable upper-middle-class drama
Shame, healing and personal growth are the order of the day in this humourless, self-adoring and vapid exploration of an artistic and narcissistic Cape Cod family
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