László Nemes

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'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies
From transformative nights in the grubbiest of fleapits to spellbinding screenings under the stars, film-makers and critics recall the communal thrill of going to the cinema

15, May, 2020 @5:00 AM

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The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: the full list
Our pick of the top films released in the US this year brings a shocking class war, tearjerking breakups, war, glamour, horror and everything in between. Tell us your favourites too

20, Dec, 2019 @1:50 PM

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The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list
Our pick of the year’s top movies released in the UK reveals the end of an era, painful breakups, festive families, horrors both real and imagined, and heroes of many kinds

20, Dec, 2019 @9:36 AM

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The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

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Sunset review – murky Hungarian drama
A young woman seeks her way in pre-first world war Budapest

Simran Hans

01, Jun, 2019 @2:00 PM

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Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction'
The director of the Auschwitz-set Oscar-winner senses dark times ahead – and believes blockbusters are partly responsible. Is that why his second film, Sunset, is so baffling?

Catherine Shoard

10, May, 2019 @5:00 AM

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Venice 2018 roundup: from old-school masterpiece to delirious horror, it's been a vintage year
With westerns from the Coens and Audiard, a Yorgos Lanthimos costume drama and a “new” work from Orson Welles, this year’s Venice jury has its work cut out

Jonathan Romney

08, Sep, 2018 @3:00 PM

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Sunset review – intrigue and terror as the shadow of war falls on Budapest
Son of Saul director László Nemes deftly conjures the death throes of the Austro-Hungarian empire in an atmospheric mystery drama

Peter Bradshaw

03, Sep, 2018 @2:00 PM

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The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 2 Son of Saul
As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver looks back on a harrowing Holocaust drama from Hungarian director László Nemes

Andrew Pulver

15, Dec, 2016 @7:30 AM

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Son of Saul; Labyrinth of Lies; Secret in Their Eyes; Strangerland; The Girlfriend Experience – review
Lázló Nemes’s Oscar-winning Holocaust drama puts the competition to shame

Guy Lodge

03, Jul, 2016 @7:00 AM

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Son of Saul review – profoundly, soul-shakingly distressing
This haunting vision of the hell inside Auschwitz seen through the eyes of prisoner forced to help in the gas chambers is traumatic and overpowering

Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

01, May, 2016 @7:59 AM

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Son of Saul review – a stunning, excoriating Holocaust drama
László Nemes’s debut, about a prisoner at Auschwitz forced to work in the gas chambers, dramatises the concentration camps with great intelligence, seriousness and audacity

Peter Bradshaw

28, Apr, 2016 @2:30 PM

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