Steal This Story, Please! review – Amy Goodman, stalwart of the American left, shows her teeth

This comprehensive documentary about the Democracy Now! radio show host and seasoned investigative reporter takes in a massacre in East Timor, the actions of oil giants and a flustered Bill Clinton as...

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Don’t Say Good Luck review – high-school musical weepie puts Sunny Sandler in the spotlight

A mother’s illness threatens to overshadow a stagestruck teen’s big break in a school production

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The End of Tom Six review – Human Centipede director delivers one last freaky flick

Now living with multiple sclerosis, Six rants about the masturbation film distributors won’t touch and the money mystery behind his horror hit

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PETER BRADSHAW reviews Ben Lerner’s TRANSCRIPTION and Frank Capra’s MEET JOHN DOE

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The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s grief classic

This sensitive adaptation of Jansson’s 1972 novel, set in the beatific Gulf of Finland, is a quiet treatise on life and death

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Love Me Tender review – Vicky Krieps custody-battle drama is intelligent, sensual and bitter slice of life

Anna Cazenave Cambet’s adaptation of Constance Debré’s novel is a superbly acted and affecting – if restrained – portrait of child access and interpersonal strife

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Nadja review – Dracula’s daughter is divine in dreamy lo-fi modern vampire tale of predatory sexuality

Michael Almereyda’s 1994 horror romance is an indie gem – with a cameo from executive producer David Lynch as a morgue attendant

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople review – Sam Neill is warm and wise in Taika Waititi’s goofily tremendous film

Waititi’s eccentric drama sends the late actor into the New Zealand wilderness with his young charge, angry authorities in hot pursuit

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Practical Magic review – Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s 90s witchy fantasy still enchants

Preceding a long-awaited sequel, Griffin Dunne’s supernatural suburban romance gets a big-screen rerelease. With its romcom quirk, buttery cinematography and stabs of black comedy, it remains a zany g...

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Phil Collins at 75: ‘My personal life? It’s a minefield’

Two years ago, he lay on his deathbed in a Swiss hospital. Now the mega-selling singer is open to the idea of a fourth wife. ‘I’d love to be in love again,’ he tells Decca Aitkenhead

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Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams

Courtenay gives a beautiful performance as the undertaker’s clerk who nurses preposterous ambitions. But the film is too quick to surrender them

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Wham! 10 Days in China review – pop meets politics in George and Andrew’s great leap east

The duo’s groundbreaking 1985 tour reveals a strange collision of pop stardom and communism, a re-edit of Lindsay Anderson’s efforts that got him fired

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day review – Zendaya saves Tom Holland’s semi-Cronenberg-style superhero

Now 30, Holland is back as the vexed webslinger in a sometimes shocking, occasionally sluggish new instalment opposite his Odyssey castmate

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Solo Sunny review – a rueful East German gem of ambition, loneliness and faded dreams

Konrad Wolf’s 1980 drama follows a singer trying to escape the drab compromises of GDR life, capturing the melancholy of thwarted ambition with warmth and wit

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Personal Problems review – an exhilarating lo-fi epic of Black working-class life in 80s New York

The director of Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn, turns analogue video and improvisation into a work of startling intimacy, humour and emotional force

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Tony review – knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir

Dominic Sessa stars as a conceited yet vulnerable young chef alongside Antonio Banderas – but the feelgood factor is compromised by what we know of the author

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PETER BRADSHAW reviews LADY

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PETER BRADSHAW reviews A USEFUL GHOST

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A Useful Ghost review – exhilarating black comedy summons ghosts of Thai past via a haunted hoover

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s stylish and unique movie features an unquiet spirit that inhabits a vacuum cleaner, before political interests intervene

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The Dink review – Jake Johnson’s pickleball comedy serves up engagingly silly laughs

Johnson is delusional ex-tennis player The Hammer, who has to switch to the sport he loathes after injury

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On the Sea review – tender fishermen’s boat-based tale of forbidden love far from prying eyes

Away from the disapproval of their Welsh fishing community, two men embark on a passionate affair in Helen Walsh’s poignant drama

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Ask E Jean review – Trump survivor turns out to be tougher than he thought as she fights on

Ivy Meeropol’s engrossing film follows as former star columnist E Jean Carroll, now in her 80s, battles through an unfinished series of legal disputes

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Nostalgia review – Tarkovsky’s yearning cine-poem is deeply mysterious and profound

In the Russian director’s Italy-set 1983 great, a scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer

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Nostalgia review – Tarkovsky’s yearning cine-poem is deeply mysterious and profound

In the Russian director’s Italy-set 1983 great, a scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer

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The Odyssey review – Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis

Doing full justice to the Homeric legend, Christopher Nolan amasses an epic cast to convey the true cost of war with film-making of thrilling ambition

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A Year in London review – fashion student hits it off with her professor in frothy lesbian romcom

An Italian on an exchange to the glamorous UK capital gets involved with a sophisticated older woman in a tale of soap opera silliness

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Synthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence

A combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth

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The Day She Returns review – another Hong Sang-soo round of slow, reflective boozing really hits the spot

No film-maker shows more day-drinking than Hong, and this study of an actor returning from a career break is the same again – as mysteriously addictive as ever

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Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar

The passionate allegory on Stalinism is outrageously reduced to happy-ending panto in this defanged animation featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Laverne Cox and Glenn Close

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A Close Shave/A Matter of Loaf and Death review – Wallace and Gromit knit together a cracking double bill

These two half-hour classics of stop-motion pack in nods to more earnest cinema but are never distracted from producing pristinely beguiling family entertainment

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