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Story of the courtesan and lover of Louis XV is heavily wigged and perfumed but the heroine remains an enigma
LaKeith Stanfield stars in a false messiah farce that is not quite a second coming of ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’
A dying man desperately seeks his lost daughter in a belated fourth feature from the ‘Spirit of the Beehive’ director
Sam Taylor-Johnson paints the singer as a chronic romantic but mostly misses her moxie, wit — and demons
Kirsten Dunst is terrifically real as a photojournalist while director Alex Garland glibly plays peekaboo with reality
Follow-up to 2020’s ‘Boys State’ shows that not all model democracies are created equal
Following his Oscar-winning ‘Drive My Car’, Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns with an age-old clash piped with surprises
This is a film of gonzo high style but amid the screeching tuk-tuks and fist fights, there is also pause for thought
Sad visual poetry meets journalistic vérité in a portrait of migration from polyglot filmmaker Matteo Garrone
Movie tells the story of the Prince’s decision to discuss his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein on camera
His directorial debut since parting ways with his brother nods to ‘Fargo’ and other cult classics but with a focus on same-sex love lives
The Japanese director’s latest movie relates the same events from different viewpoints
‘Oppenheimer’ is the heavyweight favourite but rewarding only ‘grown-up’ films may backfire. Plus: vote on your own picks
The director marches to her own drum with an uneven but exhilarating adaptation taking on discrimination and grief
He plays a lonely astronaut in this whimsical exploration of the human psyche
Denis Villeneuve’s new slab of sci-fi is assured in its Machiavellian intrigue, gooey romance and battle aggro
Prizes for director Christopher Nolan and actors Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr while Barbie leaves empty-handed
The director uses images of the modern city to tell a grim and compelling story
Sean Durkin’s movie tells the real-life story of a family grappling with trauma
An author’s literary creations turn against him in Cord Jefferson’s razor-sharp comedy
Jonathan Glazer’s film about the humdrum life of commandant Rudolf Höss and his family is full of restless invention
The couple on how their epic new documentary about Amsterdam under the Nazis is also a record of a tumultuous modern era
Cast includes Danielle Brooks, who richly deserves her Best Supporting Actress nomination
Andrew Haigh directs a powerful, melancholy tale of love and memory
‘Poor Things’ richly rewarded with 11 nods while Scorsese scores 10 for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
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