Technology
Extra Geography review – a wickedly funny lesson in sex, class and female friendship
A boarding-school escapade becomes a wonderfully acted coming-of-age comedy, as two best friends find their world threat...
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Technology
Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller
A priest investigates his daughter’s kidnapping in Thailand in this Paul Schrader-esque inquiry into spiritual nihilism
Technology
‘I’m a writer but then nobody’s perfect’: how Billy Wilder conquered Hollywood
From émigré roots to a titan of modern cinema, penning classics such as Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot and The Apart...
Technology
‘Still feel a jolt of joy’: why Dirty Dancing is my feelgood movie
The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their most rewatched comfort films remembers a 1987 teenage gir...
Automobile
Heart of the action: why organ couriers are cinema’s new heroes
Whether its a nod to frontline Covid heroes or a return to biology in a world of digital noise, there’s a rich vein of n...
Automobile
Prima Facie review – fiery one-woman play is flattened into a bland movie
Cynthia Erivo takes on the role Jodie Comer made famous for a pointless adaptation of a story about rape and retribution...
Automobile
Love of Your Life review – Margaret Qualley eats, grieves and loves in Amazon’s transporting saga
The actor gives one of her best performances to date in a smoothly made globe-trotting drama of a woman’s life after the...
Health
Being Heumann review – Coda director’s disability rights drama is well-intentioned but clunky
The rousing story of Judith Heumann makes for obvious dramatic fodder and at times this biopic finds a rebellious groove...
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Scherzetto review – Toni Servillo brings gravitas to a dithering Neapolitan ghost story
The Venice fixture plays an illustrator haunted by his boyhood in Mario Martone’s part spooky, part sentimental oddity