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Should Spies Prioritise Love Over Country?
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It’s a thorny question that has underpinned many espionage thrillers, including Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. Here, Victoria Luxford considers the cinematic secret agents who value their loved ones over their nation – and vice versa.
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Oscar Winner Sean Baker on Editing Anora
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Four-time Oscar winner Sean Baker explains his unusual approach to editing his New York-set anti-Cinderella story, which involves setting the footage aside for months after wrapping and building a cut in chronological order.
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A Short History of Cats in Film
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While dogs might have long held the crown as man’s best friend, cats are particularly beloved by filmmakers, from Agnés Varda to Stanley Kubrick; here's our guide through a short history of cats in films.
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Mickey 17 & Bong Joon Ho’s Socially Lacerating Slapstick Comedy
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The unexpected pratfalls and face-plants common in the films of Bong Joon Ho serve a greater purpose than cheap laughs. For the director, physical humour is a device to condemn classism, writes David Opie.
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I’m Still Here & the Elliptical Violence of Military Dictatorships
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Walter Salles’ drama is the latest in a spate of recent films, including Parallel Mothers and The Childhood of a Leader, that confronts authoritarianism head on, rather than obscuring it beneath allegorical fantasies, writes Billie Walker.
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Hollywood's Greatest Mother-Daughter Acting Duos
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With Mother’s Day around the corner, what better way to celebrate than by spotlighting some of Hollywood’s most iconic mother-daughter acting duos?
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Were Bridget Jones and Mark Darcy Ever a Good Couple?
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The fourth cinematic outing of Helen Fielding’s messy, chain-smoking diarist wants us to mourn the loss of Bridget and Mark’s love – but should we? Yasmin Omar investigates.
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Best Robert Pattinson Performances
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As Robert Pattinson returns to our screens, we look back at his best performances, in underseen gems and colossal blockbusters alike.
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The Filmmakers Speaking Truth to Power
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Oscar-nominated thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig, by exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, is the latest film to employ the genre as a means of exploring contemporary events – and criticising social ills. By Ian Haydn Smith
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The Poignancy of The Last Showgirl’s Underappreciated Artists
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If an artist creates something that no one engages with, did they even create? Looking at The Last Showgirl, Inside Llewyn Davis and more, Meg Walters explores the characters fighting for recognition.
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