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‘The Million Dollar Baby’, who has died aged 101, was one of the first and surely the youngest of Hollywood’s celebrity minors, as nonchalant on screen as she was vulnerable on set. She was likely also the last living silent film star, remembers Pamela Hutchinson.
Tuesday 25 February 2020 -
A womb of one’s own: a short history of abortion on film
A tenderly handled subplot in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire reminds us how rarely the termination of a pregnancy features in cinema, and how such stories tend to turn out, writes Violet Lucca.
Monday 24 February 2020 -
Malmkrog review: Cristi Puiu convenes a big-house philosophical pile-on
The Romanian director’s latest adapts a philosophical novel by Russian mystic Vladimir Solovyov as a three-and-a-half hour roundelay of high-minded debate amongst six characters in a wintry mansion. It’s intellectually rich and rigorous, but undeniably arduous cinema, finds Nick James.
Sunday 23 February 2020 -
From the Magazine
Like a Boss review: this women-at-work comedy is a sorry business
Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish play colleagues outwitted by Salma Hayek’s corporate villain in this feeble caper, writes Jason Anderson.
Friday 21 February 2020 -
From the Magazine
The Public: Emilio Estevez’s all-too peaceful protest
A Cincinnati librarian stages a sit-in when his workplace becomes the only refuge for the city’s homeless in this po-faced ensemble drama, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Thursday 20 February 2020 -
From the Magazine
End of the Century review: a bittersweet series of Barcelona romantic encounters
Lucio Castro’s impressively daring debut details a love story between two men in three chance encounters across different decades, writes Maria Delgado.
Thursday 20 February 2020 -
All change at the 70th Berlinale: what to expect from the new programmers
The Berlin film festival’s new Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian and Forum programmer Cristina Nord tell Neil Young what guides and inspires their festival-programming instincts, and what they hope to bring to one of the world’s biggest film festivals.
Wednesday 19 February 2020 -
From the Magazine
Incidental Characters review: trivial pursuits of self-involved people
This thin romcom rejects meaningful speeches in favour of throwaway comments, but fails to compensate for its lack of profundity with laughter or charm, wries Hannah McGill.
Wednesday 19 February 2020 -
From the Magazine
Little Joe review: Jessica Hausner’s floral Frankenstein horror
Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw play scientists cultivating a mood-altering plant in this eerie psychodrama of lost identities and emotional sterility, writes Catherine Wheatley.
Wednesday 19 February 2020 -
From the Magazine
Midnight Family: patrolling Mexico City in a private ambulance
Life-or-death healthcare comes at a high price in a city where life can be stranger than fiction, as Luke Lorentzen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary reveals, writes Demetrios Matheou.
Wednesday 19 February 2020
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