Feature: True History of the Kelly Gang’s paradoxical approach to gender
Outlaws in dresses and Oedipal complexes are the order of the day in Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang.
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Film review: Emma is an affectionate Austen update for an Instagram era
Music video director Autumn de Wilde delivers a gently contemporary version of Jane Austen’s antiheroine matchmaker Emma.
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Feature: The BAFTAs 2020 were an uninspiring celebration of exclusion
Amidst controversy over its hegemony of established white male stars, the BAFTAs 2020 very much stuck to the script.
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Film review: A Hidden Life is a dreary tale of a modern saint
Terrence Malick applies his unique gaze to a worthy subject, but at almost three hours A Hidden Life is both wearying and frustrating.
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Film review: 1917 strips back the history for a sensory spectacular
Sam Mendes spins a thrilling men-on-a-mission yarn with 1917, an epic WWI journey that transcends its “one-take” tagline.
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Film review: Never mind the controversy, Jojo Rabbit is just boring
Taika Waititi’s new WWII-set comedy-drama Jojo Rabbit about a Nazi boy’s compassionate awakening skews resonance for dullness.
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TV review: Gavin and Stacey return for a spellbinding Christmas Special
Ten years on, Gavin and Stacey are gloriously back with full hearts and small troubles for a Christmas Special.
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Film review: 6 Underground will make you unwell from its awfulness
Michael Bay teams up with Netflix to give us 6 Underground, a film so aggressively horrendous you can almost taste it
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Film review: Atlantics blends star-crossed lovers with supernatural satire
Debut feature director Mati Diop’s Atlantics tells a heady story of fantastical love against economic oppression in Senegal.
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Film review: Marriage Story tackles a messy divorce with a knowing smile
Marriage might be the name of the game in Noah Baumbach’s ironically titled Netflix release, but it’s focused on the mechanics of divorce.
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