Hannah McGill
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2023: the year in British cinema
A particularly challenging year for the sector still saw plenty of reasons for optimism, with a host of striking debuts finding audiences alongside big-budget fare from heavyweights like Christopher Nolan and Ridley Scott.
By Hannah McGill
2023: the year in British cinema
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Return to Seoul: a delicate exploration of what it means to belong
By Hannah McGill
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She Is Love: a self-indulgent, undirected ramble
By Hannah McGill
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Sr.: a loving portrait of Robert Downey, père
By Hannah McGill
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Last Flight Home: how to film a good death
By Hannah McGill
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It Snows in Benidorm: an unwieldy, unpersuasive drama
By Hannah McGill
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The North Water takes viewers on a brutal voyage to the Arctic
By Hannah McGill
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Paris Calligrammes takes an autobiographical trip back to 1960s Paris
By Hannah McGill
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In the Earth descends into the madness of a haunted forest
By Hannah McGill
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The Pursuit of Love thinks too much of its selfish star
By Hannah McGill
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The Nevers is a cynical attempt at steampunk fantasy coolness
By Hannah McGill
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Sisters with Transistors tells a forgotten history of female electronic composers
By Hannah McGill
Features
There’s a good girl: Promising Young Woman and the virgin/whore trope
By Hannah McGill
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Framing Britney Spears joins the shame game
By Hannah McGill
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Can’t Get You out of My Head gets lost in its own thoughts
By Hannah McGill
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Assassins peers into the diplomatic murk and weirdness of a high-profile murder
By Hannah McGill
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Bridgerton’s meeting of Regency era and Gossip Girl makes a far from heavenly match
By Hannah McGill
From the Sight and Sound archive
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
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Black Narcissus successfully rethinks a classic novel and film
By Hannah McGill
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Red, White and Blue shows the Catch-22 of Black British advancement
By Hannah McGill
Best of 2020
Shirley doesn’t wholly come together as it picks Shirley Jackson apart
By Hannah McGill
Best of 2020
Dick Johnson Is Dead: resurrections beat the blues
By Hannah McGill
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I Hate Suzie review: Billie Piper’s tabloid target enters meltdown mode
By Hannah McGill
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Ratched review: Ken Kesey’s Big Nurse gets botched surgery
By Hannah McGill
Lists
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
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Perfect 10 review: expectations are upended in this distinctive British debut
By Hannah McGill
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The Unknown Girl review: a morally challenging thriller from the Dardenne brothers
By Hannah McGill