Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own
Resource scarcity, neo-feudalism, perpetual conflict: Denis Villeneuve’s film is not a fantasy but an epiphany of the present.
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At 26, the rising star has her own production company – and this body horror set in a nunnery is…
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Drive-Away Dolls should be a classic Coen caper – but isn’t
Ethan’s first feature film without Joel sounds like a romp, but misses every beat. Do the brothers need each other…
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Who dares to “hijack” the Holocaust?
Jonathan Glazer’s abject Oscars speech for The Zone of Interest served to downplay the inhumanity his film so powerfully depicts.
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The mad brilliance of Emma Stone
How the actress graduated from romcom Everywoman to Oscar-winning performer with an instinct for the uncanny.
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What Christopher Nolan got wrong about Oppenheimer
I spent eleven years writing a biography of Oppenheimer. Does Nolan’s film “capture” him in all his complexity?
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Robbie Robertson’s sounds of America
In the Sixties, the Canadian musician defined Americana. On his score for Killers of the Flower Moon, he blew it…
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Origin: an awkward adaptation of complex race theory
Ava DuVernay’s take on Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is a lesson in the history of prejudice – and the perils of…
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