Here

Inventive but fragmented and sentimental time-skipping drama

I’m Still Here

Beautifully made, important drama from Brazil with Fernanda Torres

The Writer

Provocative two-hander about old friends is thoughtful and moving

William Tell

Stylish and refreshingly unapologetic erotic thriller with Nicole and Harris

Vermiglio

Beautifully observed Italian drama is slow, dry and mesmerising

Grand Theft Hamlet

Inventive doc sets out to stage Hamlet in a murderous videogame

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• SHADOWS AWARDS: Best/worst of '24

Ariana in the Matrix?
15.JAN: Grande is rumoured to be starring in Goddard's next-generation movie in The Matrix series
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Law is Putin alongside Vikander & Dano in The Wizard of the Kremlin
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Pike & Rhys take HALLOW ROAD
Bean, Foy, Rush for ISOLATE THIEF
Hahn is villainous in TANGLED remake
Isaac voices Jesus in KING OF KINGS
Abraham, Aaron, Ash in BOOKENDS
Russos are back for more AVENGERS
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Tom fakes his death
12.JAN: Holland will play a conflicted Alabama lawyer in an adaptation of John Grisham's The Partner.
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Domingo faces off against Powell in Wright's remake of The Running Man
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Thompson, Root in HEAR ME ROAR
Yen may direct Wick spin-off CAINE
Statham/Ayer make WORKING MAN
Dyer takes THREE QUICK BREATHS
Kapadia planning a LIGHT trilogy
Boyle directing 28 YEARS LATER 3
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Jacob and his dog
8.JAN: Elordi will star in Scott's abandoned airbase thriller The Dog Stars, replacing Mescal
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Adams will adapt novel Lucky Night for the stage, before the screen
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Skarsgard, Cage in LORD OF WAR 2
Hammer is Boll's DARK KNIGHT
Doemer & Bouab for MINOTAUR
Zane, Roerig, Myers in RECKONING
Ford is adapting CRY TO HEAVEN
Ratner makes a doc about Melania
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24 Jan:
THE BRUTALIST
FLIGHT RISK
PRESENCE
THE COLOURS WITHIN
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31 Jan:
HARD TRUTHS
SATURDAY NIGHT
COMPANION
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7 Feb:
SEPTEMBER 5
DOG MAN
LOVE HURTS
THE FIRE INSIDE
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
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14 Feb:
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD
BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY
PADDINGTON IN PERU
MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
DESIRE LINES
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21 Feb:
THE MONKEY
CLEANER
THE UNBREAKABLE BOY
I'M STILL HERE
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Rich’s Best & Worst of 2024
44th SHADOWS AWARDS:
Recapping the year with lots of lists...

December TV Roundup
SCREEN: Disclaimer, A Man on the Inside, Monsters, Perfect Couple, Only Murders 4, Heartstopper 3 and more...

This is the greatest show
STAGE: Riches and Kearns are hilarious as Ball and Boe for 14 nights only at Soho Theatre...

A gleeful panto mashup
STAGE: Potted Panto makes a triumphant return to Wilton's Music Hall for the holidays...

Walk away the blues
DANCE: Rosas brings Exit Above,
an extraordinary explosion of
movement, to Sadler's Wells...

Run, stop, fall, rise
DANCE: RB Dance Company brings its award-winning tap-dancing sensation Stories to the Peacock until 2nd Nov...

Almost absurdly likeable
COMEDY: Larry Dean takes his must-see show Dodger on tour around the UK until next spring...

Elasticity and emotion
STAGE: Tom Gaskin brings his endearing, impressive Filibuster to Jackson's Lane, on tour until Nov 8th...

Kindness is a survival skill
INTERVIEW: An encounter with
The Wild Robot's creative team at
Annecy Film Festival...

68th London Film Festival
FESTIVAL: Reviews posted as I see films at London's fest of fests...

It’s time to party
COMEDY: Paly & Jay bring Ultimate Roadshow to London: Kings Head 25-28 Sep, Soho Theatre 29 Oct-3 Nov...

Lighten up
DANCE: Barcelona-based Chicos Mambo bring their playful ballet show Tutu to the Peacock Theatre...

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STAGE: Foreverland at Southwark
AUG TV: Bear, Shogun, Acolyte...
DANCE: Frontiers at Sadler's Wells
Shadows @ London Film Fest
DANCE: Khan's Giselle, Sadler's Wells
STAGE: Sex Lives of Puppets returns
DANCE: Resurgence at Sadler's Wells
Shadows @ London's FrightFest
Shadows @ Edinburgh Fringe
STAGE: Jamie Allan's Amaze, London
STAGE: Frankie Goes to Bollywood
STAGE: Dorian musical at Southwark
STAGE: Jack Tucker at Soho Theatre
JUN TV: Ripley, Bridgerton, Hacks...
DANCE: NYDC's Wall, Sadler's Wells
STAGE: London Clown Festival, Soho
DANCE: Carlos Acosta's Carmen
Shadows @ Sundance London
STAGE: Jazz Emu's Knight Fever
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Santosh

Intensely involving drama about a female police officer in rural India

Get Away

Nick Frost writes and stars in this nutty, extremely grisly comedy

It’s Raining Men

Lively and rather corny romcom from France starring Laure Calamy

Extremely Unique Dynamic

Hilarious, engaging meta-comedy about best friends making a movie

Lady Like

Scrappy but likeable doc about the drag queen Lady Camden

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Silly and funny action mayhem with a double dose of Jim Carrey

How to Make Millions Before
Grandma Dies
Charming comedy from Thailand explores generational relationships

Mufasa: The Lion King

This prequel has strikingly photoreal animation but a rather thin narrative

Kraven the Hunter

Anti-hero action is intriguingly quirky but feels badly compromised

Queer

Dark, inventive sex-and-drugs drama with Daniel Craig & Drew Starkey

The War of the Rohirrim

Gorgeous but oddly unengaging animated Lord of the Rings prequel

That Christmas

Lively animated holiday adventure with a witty Richard Curtis script

Merchant Ivory

Engaging documentary about the groundbreaking filmmaking duo

The Six Triple Eight

Terrific true WWII story is cheesily made but engaging and important

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MOANA 2
RUMOURS
YOUR MONSTER
GLADIATOR II
JOY
A TRAVELER'S NEEDS
RED ONE
JOY
SKINCARE
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT
PADDINGTON IN PERU
HERETIC
THE PIANO LESSON
JUROR #2
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A Real Pain

Smart, funny road comedy with Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg

Maria

Angelina Jolie is terrific in Larrain's biopic about diva Maria Callas

Babygirl

Stylish and refreshingly unapologetic erotic thriller with Nicole and Harris

The Girl With the Needle

Stylish, powerful Danish drama based on real events from 1910

Nickel Boys

Stunningly original drama set in a 1960s Southern reform school

Nosferatu

Atmospheric, unnervingly involving vampire horror with Lily-Rose Depp

Vengeance Most Fowl

Wallace & Gromit are back in their most entertaining adventure yet

We Live in Time

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are on top form in this moving drama

Who I Am Not

From South Africa, a bold and imaginative look at intersex lives

2073

Haunting and gloomy, this inventive doc looks back from the future

Better Man

Inventive, surprisingly moving biopic sees Robbie Williams as a chimp

The Order

Bracingly well-made dramatic thriller about an Iranian family in crisis

The Brutalist

Toweringly ambitious, powerfully involving epic immigrant story

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LOS FRIKIS
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
THE COUNT OF MONTE CARLO
SEPTEMBER 5
BONHOEFFER
NIGHTBITCH
DAY OF THE FIGHT
UNSTOPPABLE
NEVER LOOK AWAY
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
CONCLAVE
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