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It feels like it’s been ages since we’ve seen Saoirse Ronan at the center of a naturalistic, contemporary drama, and her immersion in the self-destructive and self-loathing tendencies of Rona, an Orkney-raised alcoholic who returns to her remote Scottish island home, is what keeps The
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The back-to-back International Film Festivals in Venice and Toronto mark the start of what is referred to as "awards season" in Hollywood. From superhero movies attempting to play themselves as more than they are to obscure foreign language debuts, these two events are where everyone rolls
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Kenneth Branagh is probably best known as an actor, thanks to his performances in films ranging from the 1993 adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to his 2023 take on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice. But what you may not have
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Kneecap, an Irish-language hip hop trio from West Belfast, have exploded over the past seven years with pounding, hedonistic rave and house tracks, all born from a young, culturally-specific Northern Irish perspective. Historically, rap has always used language in an explicitly political way – the global appeal of the
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Rumors have been swirling about a Peaky Blinders movie for so long that it's honestly a bit jarring to see the production engine that will return the Shelby family to our screens begin to rumble to life. But, as they say, good things come to those who wait,
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Based on the well-received chiller novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre is a moody story of haunting folklore and grief upturning the land we stand on. Set in an ambiguous late-20th-century moment in the Yorkshire Dales, academic Richard (Matt Smith) and his wife Juliette (Morfydd Clark)
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If the Cannes Film Festival is the place where films test the waters to see if they have the juice to play for awards season, the dual arrivals of the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival are the hard launch for those who think they can
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A pre-colonial expansion through tribal Māori land becomes a personal crisis for an English lay preacher setting up a diocese in a small settlement in The Convert, a robust but unsophisticated historical drama set in 1830 Aotearoa (the Māori name for New Zealand). The film, directed by acclaimed Kiwi
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No matter how you felt about Saltburn, there's no denying that it was one of the buzziest, most talked-about films of 2023. From bathwater memes and debates about the ending to the resurgence of Sophie Ellis-Bextor banger "Murder on the Dance Floor" on the
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The supernatural black comedy The Radleys finally has reared its head and bared its teeth for the first time since June 2023, when the film was first announced. Based on the popular novel of the same name by Matt Haig, the story follows the titular Radley family — parents Peter and
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Apple TV+ has grown into a must-watch destination for prestige television, boasting critically acclaimed comedies (Ted Lasso), dramas (Slow Horses), thrillers (Hijack), and limited series (Manhunt). But with the success of CODA, the streamer has turned its attention to feature films, backing buzzy, awards season fare like Ridley Scott&
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British national treasure Ken Loach's final film, The Old Oak, premiered just over a year ago at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival but is only just reaching theaters in America, ironically, as the Labour Party wins a landslide victory in the July 4th election. With The Old Oak&