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View allZENDAYA & THE TENNIS PLAYER TO LEADING LADY PIPELINE
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Meg Walters considers how Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone and, now, Zendaya used tennis movies to springboard their careers into new directions.
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Savina Petkova puts her university training to good use with a helpful guide to this school of 20th-century philosophical thought that’ll help you distinguish Camus from Kierkegaard.
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REVIEW
Emotions run high in Luca Guadagnino’s smouldering three-way romance, which is bolstered by kinetically captured matches, writes Yasmin Omar.
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From Freddie Mercury to Ray Charles – and now Amy Winehouse – Sean Wilson considers why filmmakers are drawn to the rise-and-fall stories of troubled musicians.
Read Now →IS NOTHING SACRED? CIVIL WAR & HOLLYWOOD'S DESTRUCTION OF LANDMARKS
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Victoria Luxford explores how cinematic attacks on the Statue of Liberty, the White House and other national monuments feed into America’s deepest fears.
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The Monkey Man writer-director-actor positions himself as an alternative to Hollywood’s identikit leading men in his coiled spring of a revenge thriller, writes Yasmin Omar.
READ NOW →THE LOVING CLOSE-UP: DISCO BOY THROUGH THE LENS OF HÉLÈNE LOUVART
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Savina Petkova considers how the celebrated cinematographer's tactile style owes a lot to its tight framing of her subjects.
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INTERVIEW
This single-location thriller shows how a simple accusation can precipitate life-changing consequences. Here, the writers unpack their process.
READ NOW →SYDNEY SWEENEY’S PRIMAL SCREAM
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Long regarded as an excellent shouter, the actress reaches her full-volume potential as a final girl in the religious horror flick Immaculate, says Yasmin Omar.
BOOK NOWDRIVE-AWAY DOLLS & THE QUEST FOR THE FEMALE ORGASM
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Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s bawdy sex comedy borrows from high-school farces, with one crucial difference: it puts queer female sexuality front and centre. By Billie Walker
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