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Asterix: the Secret of the Magic Potion review: this reboot retains the Gaulish charm
The quirky heroes of the René Goscinny and Alberto Uderzo comics return to the screen in an adventure that soars when it is its most appealingly odd, writes Leigh Singer.
Friday 30 August 2019 -
From the Magazine
Mark Jenkin on Bait: “A sense of otherness is important”
The director talks to Philip Concannon about how he made his deliciously original debut feature by hand, and how his story of Cornish fishermen has resonated with audiences all over the world.
Friday 30 August 2019 -
Disconnect my skin: The Great Hack visualises surveillance capitalism
How can cinema make visible the digital data transfers that increasingly dominate our lives? Jehane Noujaim’s and Karim Amer’s new doc on the Cambridge Analytica scandal (and Sleater-Kinney’s new music video) step up to the challenge, says So Mayer.
Wednesday 28 August 2019 -
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The Souvenir review: Joanna Hogg pulls the threads of a doomed romance
Hogg’s drily perceptive drama unfolds in a series of painterly and acutely well-judged vignettes, as Honor Swinton Byrne and Tom Burke play lovers adrift in early 1980s Knightsbridge, writes Kate Stables.
Wednesday 28 August 2019 -
A Girl Missing review: Koji Fukada examines the complexities of guilt
In this compassionate drama from the director of Harmonium, parallel timelines show how Tsutsui Mariko’s protagonist becomes drawn into her nephew’s crime of abduction, writes Josh Slater-Williams.
Thursday 22 August 2019 -
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Pain and Glory review: Pedro Almodóvar makes an art form out of reminiscence
Pedro Almodóvar finds an avatar in Antonio Banderas’s terrific performance as a director transported by memories of his childhood, but this film is as much about Spanish politics as his life and work, writes Maria Delgado.
Thursday 22 August 2019 -
Isadora’s Children review: dancing on to a higher emotional plane
Damien Manivel’s deftly choreographed dance-drama explores how Isadora Duncan’s powerful expression of maternal grief resonates through the lives of contemporary performers, writes Sophie Monks Kaufman.
Wednesday 21 August 2019 -
Days of the Bagnold Summer review: can two awkward loners make a family?
A single mum and her moody, heavy-metal-obsessed teenager negotiate their strained relationship in Simon Bird’s poignant coming-of-age movie.
Wednesday 21 August 2019 -
Richard Williams obituary: a half-hidden animation master
The Canadian-born animator brought us Roger Rabbit, the Cresta Bear and animation’s great lost film, writes Andrew Osmond.
Tuesday 20 August 2019 -
D.A. Pennebaker obituary: the documentary pioneer who wrote life’s drama in lightning
A poet of the mobile sync-sound camera, Pennebaker’s raw, quicksilver portraits of performers from JFK to Dylan showed us unscripted truths worth waiting for, as the veteran observational documentarian Roger Graef remembers.
Tuesday 20 August 2019
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