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Ethan Coen’s ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ is a lesbian crime caper road movie; Hirokazu Kore-eda’s five-star ‘Monster’ vividly evokes childhood and school life; Indigenous Australian Warwick Thornton directs magical-realist fable ‘The New Boy’; documentary ‘The Trust Fall: Julian Assange’ is impassioned but odd; ‘Origin’ tackles memoir and racial history; five stars for the eccentric satire ‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World’ — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney
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
Kym Staton’s movie combines informative content with oddities and testimony from advocates
A boy with a strange power is at the centre of Indigenous director Warwick Thornton’s idiosyncratic movie
The Japanese director’s latest movie relates the same events from different viewpoints
The star of new movie ‘The Beautiful Game’ talks about arriving late to fame and the necessity of avoiding himself on screen
The stars chose big, bold fashion statements — and political messaging — for Hollywood’s most glamorous night
$1bn-grossing biopic earns Christopher Nolan first recognition as best director
‘Oppenheimer’ is the heavyweight favourite but rewarding only ‘grown-up’ films may backfire. Plus: vote on your own picks
A Bucharest woman adopts a misogynistic male persona in Radu Jude’s sublime and eccentric comic romp
The director marches to her own drum with an uneven but exhilarating adaptation taking on discrimination and grief
Kevin Macdonald’s documentary features testimony from the man whose fall was sudden and shocking
Carla Gutiérrez’s film uses Frida Kahlo’s own words, taken from her diaries, as a narrative
Her Oscar-nominated docudrama restages the tragedy of a Tunisian family that lost two children to Islamic State
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Usually adverse to cosiness, our writer finds comfort in the Lancashire abode of Aardman Animations’ inventive double act
A new documentary explores how the former Dior designer came back from scandal
The British star reflects on going from ‘little toerag’ to ‘Scum’, ‘Sexy Beast’ and his new Netflix projects ‘The Gentlemen’ and ‘Damsel’
The Oscar-winning art director loves geraniums, fish fingers and Ace Ventura’s trousers
Kaouther Ben Hania combines documentary and reconstruction in her captivating feature
Robin Campillo’s affecting movie is inspired by his own Madagascar upbringing
He plays a lonely astronaut in this whimsical exploration of the human psyche
Alfred Hitchcock and Vincent Price are among the characters in this ingenious play at London’s Hampstead Theatre
His acclaimed film ‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World’ centres on a racist, sexist comedy troll
Analysis of the nominations and interviews with contenders including Christopher Nolan, Sandra Hüller and Jonathan Glazer
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