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Raphael Abraham

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  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    Six films to watch this week
    Thunder Force — even Melissa McCarthy’s superpowers cannot save it

    Ben Falcone’s film is fatally wounded by a supernaturally unfunny script

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    Six films to watch this week
    True Mothers — an intriguing story of adoption

    The most remarkable feature of Naomi Kawase’s film is its fractured structure

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    Six films to watch this week
    Clapboard Jungle — lifting the lid on the indie horror film business

    Justin McConnell’s documentary takes us into a netherworld of shapeless T-shirts and bad facial hair

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    Six films to watch this week
    Promising Young Woman — Carey Mulligan stars as a toxic avenger

    Emerald Fennell’s enormously confident first feature tackles sexual politics head-on

  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
    ReviewFilm
    Silk Road — can cyber crime look sexy on screen?

    Tiller Russell’s attempt at dark-web noir pits an old-school cop against a libertarian web pirate

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    ReviewFilm
    Mother is a deeply affecting documentary about outsourcing care

    Difficult questions concerning dementia patients, their families and carers animate and bedevil Kristof Bilsen’s film

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Oscars 2021: meet the nominees
    Pixar’s Pete Docter on Soul and being animated by life’s big questions

    The maker of Up and Inside Out talks about entering the spiritual realm with his new movie — and being kept out of cinemas

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    InterviewTelevision
    Luca Guadagnino: ‘Adolescence is very cinematic to me’

    The ‘Call Me By Your Name’ director on making his first foray into TV with the teen-led drama ‘We Are Who We Are’

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    InterviewFilm
    From Cannes high to Covid low — the rollercoaster of making The Climb

    First-time director Michael Angelo Covino reflects on an experience that has been as bittersweet as his comedy

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    Venice Film Festival
    Nomadland walks away with top prize at Venice Film Festival

    Chloé Zhao’s film, which stars Frances McDormand as a widow going it alone in the American West, wins Golden Lion

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Oscars 2021: meet the nominees
    Nomadland — delicate, incisive portrait of a life lived on the road

    Frances McDormand stars in writer-director Chloé Zhao’s powerful picture of a particular American subculture

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    FT SeriesVenice Film Festival 2020
    The Disciple — a finely tuned tale of devotion and doubt

    A Mumbai singer struggles with musical scales and vices in this Venice Film Festival competition entry

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    ReviewFT Series
    Venice Film Festival 2020

    From Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest movie to a French Bill & Ted having an adventure with a giant insect, we review this year’s highlights

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    FT SeriesVenice Film Festival 2020
    Mainstream — Gia Coppola’s journey into the heart of online darkness

    Andrew Garfield scales the heights of obnoxiousness as an anti-internet rebel seduced by YouTube stardom

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    FT SeriesVenice Film Festival 2020
    French Bill & Ted befriend a giant fly in Mandibules

    Quentin Dupieux’s film may be the silliest movie at the Venice Film Festival but it’s also the funniest

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    FT SeriesVenice Film Festival 2020
    The Duke — Jim Broadbent steals the show in Ealing-style heist comedy

    A truth-based story told with droll dialogue makes for a warm and witty crowd-pleaser

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    FT SeriesVenice Film Festival 2020
    The World to Come — female bonding on the US frontier

    Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby and Casey Affleck star in a 19th-century-set tale of two women in search of escape

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    FT SeriesVenice Film Festival 2020
    Tilda Swinton in Almodóvar’s Human Voice, plus Apples and Final Account

    Three films early on at the Venice Film Festival encompass emotional breakdown, memory loss and Nazi guilt

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    InterviewFilm
    Charlie Kaufman on putting the human psyche on screen for Netflix

    The writer-director talks about exploring turbulent inner lives in his new film ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ and debut novel ‘Antkind’

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    ReviewFilm
    Ai Weiwei’s Coronation documents the pandemic from its beginnings in Wuhan

    Anger rises in this film by the artist and activist

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    ReviewFilm
    Rising Phoenix — a stirring documentary tells Paralympics stories

    A history of the games is melded with the biographies of disabled athletes

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    ReviewFilm
    You’ve Been Trumped Too — documentary sequel is a lacklustre affair

    Anthony Baxter’s film follows resistance to the Trump empire’s golf course in Scotland

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    ReviewFilm
    The One and Only Ivan — a mistimed and misfiring Disney family film

    This morose movie tells the story of a gorilla stuck in a failing circus

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Television
    BingeWatch: seminal showbiz satire The Larry Sanders Show

    Garry Shandling’s mould-breaking sitcom skewered 1990s Hollywood with the help of its biggest stars

  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    ReviewFilm
    Coup 53 — compelling attempt to fill holes in Iran’s history

    A documentary about the western-backed ousting of Mohammad Mosaddegh is full of surprises and outrage

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