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Artist whose fight to establish her identity conflicted with devotion to a driven family
Is Alex Garland’s new movie a war film or a political film? And does it succeed? We discuss with the FT’s Stephen Bush and Topher Forhecz
LaKeith Stanfield is a false messiah in ‘The Book of Clarence’; Johnny Depp plays the king to Maïwenn’s mistress in ‘Jeanne du Barry’; Daisy Ridley shows a dark side in ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’; ‘Fantastic Machine’ chronicles screen history from Lumière brothers to TikTok; ‘Civil War’ stars Kirsten Dunst in a near-future American conflagration; Sam Taylor-Johnson directs Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Back to Black’ — reviews by Danny Leigh and Jonathan Romney
Swedish-Danish documentary deploys an eclectic barrage of clips for an earnest study
The ‘Star Wars’ star gives a finely calibrated performance as a solitary Oregon office worker with a morbid dream life
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’
Her movie about male violence and female independence, ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’, became a phenomenon in Italy
Never remake your heroes merely in a bid for wide appeal
The Hollywood A-lister on playing Benjamin Franklin, why Gordon Gekko is misunderstood — and why acting is all about the hair
HTSI editor Jo Ellison and US finance reporter and men's style columnist Robert Armstrong join to take on the classic 2006 film
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
How many artisans, animators and experts does it take to build the auteur’s sets?
Director Rose Glass of ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ and ‘Saint Maud’ brings us behind the scenes of her new film
Meet April’s all-star cast
The controversial French actor and filmmaker’s latest work sees her in the role of courtesan in 1760s Versailles
The actor on winning an Oscar, becoming a Versace ‘Icon’ and being the most ‘awkward person on the internet’
The writer-director says the movie is a celebration of journalism in a bloodily divided, dictator-run US
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
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