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Hacks was always a love story

Hacks contains multitudes; at once it’s a giddy comedy, an unpredictable drama, and an endlessly fruitful sitcom, but more than anything, Hacks is a love story. Across five

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Tuner review – woefully off-key

Cinema has the power to shape perceptions of entire groups of people. People with AIDS are Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (1993); trans women are Norman Bates

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The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review

In Valeska Grisebach’s last film, from 2017, a German laborer in Bulgaria to work on an infrastructure project explores the hillsides around a Bulgarian village on foot

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Avedon – first-look review | Little White Lies

Who doesn’t love a bit of Richard Avedon? You’ve likely seen the American portrait photographer’s fingerprints without realising just what you’re looking at – think Brooke

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Fjord – first-look review | Little White Lies

You could imagine the high priest of bureaucratic cynicism himself, Franz Kafka, watching this film about a Christian-Conservative couple being passed through the meat-grinder of the

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All of a Sudden – first-look review

When we talk about ​“set pieces” in relationship to cinema, we often think of a jaw-dropping, computer-assisted visual sugar rush that is primed to leave the

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Has streaming killed Star Wars?

In a 2023 interview, Liam Neeson, who played Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jin in The Phantom Menace, chalked up his disillusionment with the ever-expanding number of Star Wars

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Kokuho review – a kabuki star is born

Within a short time of being introduced to the budding kabuki performer at the centre of Lee Sang-il’s hit Japanese film Kokuho, a character cuttingly offers an

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Our Land review – superb doc on the right to roam

It’s very rare that you catch a sighting of the c‑word in these august pages, but its usage is warranted in reference to one of the

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The Piano Teacher and The Limits of Desire

Romy keeps fantasising about Samuel, and it’s implied that BDSM now plays some role in her marriage. But, as in many erotic films, the threat