Ann Manov

Babygirl casts a cynical eye on the post-MeToo workplace

This story of an office affair starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson is free of sanctimony: the misconduct is too hot to handle.

By Ann Manov

By Ann Manov

By Ann Manov

By Ann Manov

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In a new book on the vicious media misogyny of the Noughties, the recent past has never felt more…

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Susanna Fogel’s take on the viral New Yorker story reveals the dangers of lazy adaptation.

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The South African writer’s steely eye gives his stories of emotional restraint the feel of modern allegories.

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In Matt Johnson’s film about the vanished electronic device, we all know what’s to come: the iPhone.

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This debut film of lost love is full of material that is clearly important to her. Why should it…

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In Charlotte Regan’s playful but twee debut, a fiercely independent 12-year-old is reunited with her absent young dad.

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The director has achieved her ambition of becoming a blockbuster director – but at what cost?

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Reviewing the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is an exercise as absurd as critiquing…

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