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Film / In The Human Voice, Tilda Swinton Makes an Art of Loneliness

After months of lockdown, cinemas in the UK re-open with Pedro Almodóvar’s smart, chic short

BY Philippa Snow | 20 May 21

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Opinion / ‘Another Round’ Pictures a Vapid Love-Affair with Alcoholism

Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film about a group of middle-aged men finding happiness through the habitual consumption of alcohol is sentimental and without complexity

BY Kristian Vistrup Madsen | 21 Apr 21

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Film / The Highlights of this Year’s Berlinale Film Festival

The most exciting works of the first online edition of the festival look at strategies of care and ways of refusing neoliberalism

BY Anthony Hawley | 11 Mar 21

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Opinion / In ‘Promising Young Woman’ Revenge Is a Dish Served Lukewarm

Despite a brilliant performance by Carey Mulligan, the post-#MeToo thriller is an anti-climax

BY Philippa Snow | 19 Jan 21

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Columnists / Rebecca Hall’s ‘Passing’ and the Legacy of Colourism in Hollywood

A Sundance highlight, the director’s debut is a nuanced exploration of lives either side of the ‘colour line’

BY Leila Latif | 10 Feb 21

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Features / Hollywood Crawls Out of the Trump Era

A.S. Hamrah on the portrayal of ‘red America’ in Hillbilly Elegy, Rebuilding Paradise and Nomadland

BY A.S. Hamrah | 23 Feb 21

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Opinion / ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Captures the Complexities of Revolutionary Death

Skaka King's film on the life and assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton exceptionally examines the ever-present interplay between race and capital

BY Ian Bourland | 16 Feb 21