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This double-bill of plays by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne at New York’s Public Theater is subtle and well-observed
Elle Fanning fights to bring feistiness to a familiar story, with varying success
Asa Butterfield leads a fine cast in this horribly credible film adaptation of RC Sherriff’s first-world-war play
An adaptation that fails to do justice to the novel’s bleak vision
Thomas Vinterberg’s film looks glowingly lovely but lacks the weirdness of Hardy’s novel
John Goodman gives the standout performance in a promising production of David Mamet’s play
A play about masculinity, machismo, competition and the seamy underside of the American Dream
A portrait of the Victorian critic John Ruskin as frigid, pouty and cruel
Lyle Kessler’s drama has lost much of its kinetic energy since its off-Broadway arrival in 1985
A plot bearing a sense of bereavement and its consequences, with a character having no choice but to face the world alone
This week’s new film releases reviewed: ‘On the Road’, ‘Pusher’, ‘Ruby Sparks’, ‘Radioman’, ‘Private Peaceful’ and ‘Hotel Transylvania’
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