Film

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Why Anatomy of a Fall should win the best picture Oscar
Justine Triet’s psychothriller was shut out by France’s Oscar committee, but this genre-bending courtroom procedural, marriage drama and whodunnit feels totally new

Rebecca Liu

28, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM

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‘It has become a sort of silver bullet’: why are rap lyrics being put on trial?
In compelling documentary As We Speak, a controversial legal practice that uses rap lyrics to secure convictions is explored

Adrian Horton

27, Feb, 2024 @6:50 PM

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Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’
Yuval Abraham criticises German officials, saying statement devalues term ‘antisemitism’ and puts Jewish lives in danger

Philip Oltermann European culture editor

27, Feb, 2024 @6:04 PM

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Sex, lies and sundowners: Robin Campillo on turning his army brat childhood into a film
The cult director grew up on the luscious island of Madagascar just as it was casting off French rule. It was a deliriously happy time for him – but now he realises what was really going on

Peter Bradshaw

27, Feb, 2024 @3:07 PM

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Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris remake puzzled audiences 20 years ago – but it deserves a second chance
Starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone, Soderbergh reimagines a three-hour sci-fi classic as a brisk romantic drama – and it works

Kevin Bui

27, Feb, 2024 @2:00 PM

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Ryan Gosling tipped to sing I’m Just Ken at the Oscars
Variety reports that the Barbie star will perform the film’s keynote anthem at the Academy Awards on 10 March

Catherine Shoard

27, Feb, 2024 @12:12 PM

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Defoe review – disarmingly honest portrait of a star footballer
The West Ham and Tottenham striker considers a rags-to-riches career that began as a schoolkid, and the scandals that followed, with unusual openness

Andrew Pulver

27, Feb, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Driving Mum review – happy-sad Icelandic road movie hits the spot
This quirky story of a lonely farmer and his deceased mother celebrates the Nordic country’s breathtaking landscape

Leslie Felperin

27, Feb, 2024 @9:00 AM

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Why American Fiction should win the best picture Oscar
Jeffrey Wright is in a role of a lifetime as a frustrated Black professor driven to write a cliche-riddled crime saga – and makes universal his struggle to be seen and heard

Jordan Hoffman

27, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM

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Tropic review – morally ambiguous sci-fi predicts the departure of the fittest
Director Édouard Salier tells the story of twin brothers training to become stellar explorers. But whether we should accept that space is reserved for humanity’s best remains unclear

Leslie Felperin

27, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM

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Suffering for her tart: how Emma Stone ate 60 Portuguese custard pastries for Poor Things
The race for best actress Oscar is a tight one, so it’s important to understand that Stone really did stuff herself for her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s movie

Stuart Heritage

26, Feb, 2024 @5:31 PM

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‘I recently went back to the Texas border – and urinated on the wall’: how we made Lone Star
‘The film was 20 years ahead of its time. Look at what we’re dealing with now – border conflict is a nightmare’

Interviews by Phil Hoad

26, Feb, 2024 @2:59 PM

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