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Avengers: Infinity War review: Marvel’s space mosaic punches for the stars
Marvel’s most bumper saga yet harks back to 1940s serials with its many-chaptered ambition to crowbar every super hero and villain possible into a superfranchise. Its vistas are almost as impressive as its vaulting ambition, says Kim Newman.
Friday 27 April 2018 -
Uncertain countries: rethinking the landscape film at Frames of Representation 2018
This year’s festival of cinematic nonfiction at the ICA probes the theme of ‘landscape’ – less as a discipline than a metaphor for the ways we build our worldview, says Ben Nicholson.
Friday 27 April 2018 -
From the Magazine
The Old Dark House archive review: a peculiarly acute English horror story
As James Whale’s pre-code horror-comedy returns to the big screen, we share John Pym’s review from a previous re-release, which praises the film’s many riches, and sets the record straight.
Friday 27 April 2018 -
From the Magazine
Beast review: a fairytale with more than one monster
Michael Pearce’s bold debut feature conjures a tantalising mix of eroticism and paranoia, as its heroine struggles with agonising doubts about her mysterious new lover, writes Philip Kemp.
Thursday 26 April 2018 -
A violent controversy over the award-winning South African film The Wound points to a tense global debate about the rights of indigenous peoples to protect their collective forms of cultural expression. Where does the defence of traditional culture become censorship, asks Bertrand Moullier.
Wednesday 25 April 2018 -
Vittorio Taviani obituary: a poetic witness to Italy’s political drama
From Allonsanfàn to Padre Padrone, Night of the Shooting Stars to Caesar Must Die, Vittorio and his surviving brother Paolo distilled their country’s post-war convulsions with a weightless eloquence and imagination, says Celluloid Liberation Front.
Wednesday 25 April 2018 -
Delusional Albion: how foreign directors saw Swinging 60s Britain
From Repulsion to Blowup and beyond, 1960s movies made in Britain by foreign directors had something unsettling to tell us about a nation in flux – a warning that may yet reflect on our Brexit era, writes Brad Stevens.
Tuesday 24 April 2018 -
From the Magazine
Grease archive review: how low can you retro?
Randal Kleiser’s prefab portmanteau of chaste teen-movie clichés is not so much feelgood as feelfake, argued our critic Jan Dawson in 1978.
Tuesday 24 April 2018 -
Death Wish returns once more to boil our blood
Nearly half a century after Michael Winner and Charles Bronson commanded the indignation of liberal critics with their 1974 existential vigilante movie, Eli Roth and Bruce Willis have reprised its blood-crazed convulsions, if not its cultural commentary. Shall we ward off its evil eye, asks Tim Hayes.
Saturday 21 April 2018 -
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Atlantic drift: the great British filmmakers working in America
Should we be concerned by the fact that, at a moment of great national soul-searching, many of the UK’s most celebrated independent filmmakers – from Andrea Arnold to Lynne Ramsay, Steve McQueen and the McDonagh brothers – are currently working in the United States? Will Massa investigates.
Friday 20 April 2018
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