Period and historical films

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Late Night With the Devil review – demonic talkshow channels horror of 1970s TV
The directors have fun sending up TV conventions, as a failing host attempts to revive his career by communing with a demon, supposedly possessing a teenage girl

Phil Hoad

18, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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As a woman of colour trying to break into film, Merchant Ivory nurtured my career | Letters
Letters: A new doc gives a partial and racialising view of the film production company, says Nasheed Qamar Faruqi. Plus a letter from Mark Redhead

15, Mar, 2024 @5:00 PM

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‘I got you an Oscar. Why do I need to pay you?’ The secret shocking truth about Merchant Ivory
They were the box-office titans behind sumptuous period masterpieces. Yet underneath, reveals a new warts-and-all film, they were skint, stressed, prone to blood-curdling bust-ups – and ping-ponging between lovers

Ryan Gilbey

12, Mar, 2024 @4:21 PM

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Cabrini review – lushly mounted hagiography of the first US saint to be canonised
Biopic of an Italian nun who moves to New York to build orphanages in the slums portrays her as wholly holy in her mission

Leslie Felperin

11, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Edge of Summer review – Cornish coming-of-age tale keeps its terrible secrets close
Two young protagonists discover something (but what is it?) in a disused tin mine in Lucy Cohen’s imperfect but atmospheric family psychodrama

Peter Bradshaw

08, Mar, 2024 @8:30 PM

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Vindication Swim review – pioneering endurance-swim tale in shadow of Nyad
Uncertain line readings and torpid direction hamper the story of the first British woman to swim the Channel

Peter Bradshaw

04, Mar, 2024 @9:00 AM

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The Shamrock Spitfire review – Irish flying ace takes stage in nostalgic wartime weepie
The story of 1940s fighter pilot Brendan Finucane, AKA ‘Spitfire Paddy’, is told with panache, even if it lays it on a bit thick

Phil Hoad

04, Mar, 2024 @7:00 AM

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Shoshana review – Michael Winterbottom’s compelling romantic thriller set in 30s Palestine
This partly factual drama about the bright young things of British Mandate Tel Aviv offers insights into the politics of the time

Ellen E Jones

25, Feb, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Wicked Little Letters review – a depressing, obvious, clunky waste of a stellar cast
Any wider comment on the strange, sad nature of the scandal this film is based on is sidestepped in favour of broad laughs and superficiality

Peter Bradshaw

22, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM

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Shoshana review – a quiet love story entangled in deadly Middle East politics
Michael Winterbottom’s drama centres on the romance between a British police officer and a socialist Zionist writer but puts history-telling over emotion

Peter Bradshaw

21, Feb, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Out of Darkness review – stone age survival thriller finds horror in the Highlands
Six settlers arrive in a Scottish forest 45,000 years ago, where ‘bloodthirsty things’ await but bathos fails to arrive

Cath Clarke

20, Feb, 2024 @11:00 AM

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The Promised Land review – Mads Mikkelsen stars in enjoyably gritty Nordic western
The bleak terrain of Jutland is the setting for an 18th-century battle over crops and land in Nikolaj Arcel’s rollicking true-life drama

Wendy Ide

18, Feb, 2024 @3:00 PM

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