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Oh. What. Fun.


Michelle Pfeiffer leads this silly but charming Christmas comedy


A Private Life


Bustling French mystery thriller with Jodie Foster & Daniel Auteuil


La Grazia


Toni Servillo stars in another gorgeous Paulo Sorrentino odyssey


Merrily We Roll Along


Ambitious, skilfully filmed stage version of the Broadway musical


Magazine Dreams


Darkly moving bodybuilding drama starring a muscly Jonathan Majors


Little Trouble Girls


Slovenian coming-of-age drama explores some provocative issues

film news
Angelina is Sunny
3.DEC
: Jolie will play a mob boss protecting her sons in the dark thriller Sunny, directed by Sorhaug
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Negga, Plaza & Essiedu join the cast of Jordan's Thomas Crown remake
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Wahlberg in THE OPERATOR thriller
Foley, Brenneman to KEEP COMING
Gourav leads GANGSTER biopic
Watkins & Dekker face ZOMBOIS
Raimi & Peele team for PORTRAIT
Lin directs HELLDIVERS movie
MORE >>

Scarlett vs the devil
30.NOV
: Johansson will star in a new reboot of The Exorcist from writer-director Flanagan.
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Holland, Pierce, Williamson & Wiley in boxing bio They Fight
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Twigs & Sevigny get LONELY
Vergara joins Awkwafina's THUMB
Horror for Corrin, Schafer, Liu
Wolfhard & Labelle in CRASH LAND
Shipp, Stoltz in Howard's AUTOPSY
Gisondo & Hernandez join SHREK 5
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Cynthia’s Othello
26.NOV
: Erivo, Oyelowo, Brosnahan and probably Craig will reprise their stage roles for new Othello film
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Streep, Franco, Whitlock and more add their voices to Hopper adventure
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Delevingne in Firstman's CLUB
Branagh is the titular GOBLIN
Union & Morrone in ROME romcom
Centineo joins Sweeney in GUNDAM
Meester, Padalecki for BODYGUARD
Sumpter & Hurd-Wood for ROAN
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box office

coming soon

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12 Dec:
GOODBYE JUNE
ELLA MCCAY
LURKER
ELEANOR THE GREAT
PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE
SCARLET
THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
BABY
A FEW FEET AWAY
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19 Dec:
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
IS THIS THING ON?
SPONGEBOB: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
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26 Dec:
MARTY SUPREME
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
THE CHORAL
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
THE PLAGUE
NO OTHER CHOICE
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2 Jan:
SONG SUNG BLUE
PETER HUJAR'S DAY
WE BURY THE DEAD
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Recently published reviews:
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
MAGAZINE DREAMS
FOLKTALES
ZOOTOPIA 2
SIRAT
LITTLE AMELIE
A PRIVATE LIFE
MAGELLAN
MY FATHER'S SHADOW
THE SECRET AGENT
ELEANOR THE GREAT
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
THE MASTERMIND
DEAD MAN'S WIRE
THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
SPLITSVILLE
WICKED: FOR GOOD
NO OTHER CHOICE
SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE
LEFT-HANDED GIRL
SAUNA

stage & more

A Victorian night out

STAGE
The Great Christmas Feast, an immersive dinner & show, until 4 Jan...


November TV Roundup

SCREEN Boots, Only Murders 5, Chad Powers, Peacemaker 2, MobLand, Morning Show 4, Alien: Earth, more...


We need a little Christmas

STAGE
Brick Lane Music Hall's vintage dinner-theatre show The Magic of Christmas...


Step back in time

STAGE
RVT panto Growled is a riotous spin on Beauty and the Beast, until 3rd Jan...


Deep under the skin

DANCE
Ballet Black's darkly invlving double bill Shadows at Sadler's Wells...


Connection is the answer

DANCE
NDT & Complicite's staggering Figures in Extinction at Sadler's Wells...


Reminder from mother earth

DANCE
Akram Khan and Manal AlDowayan's elemental Thikra at Sadler's Wells...


That’s the way I like it

STAGE
KC & Sunshine Band musical rocks Charing Cross Theatre until 15 Nov...


A screaming good time

STAGE
Ghost Stories returns to scare London at Peacock Theatre until 8th Nov...

69th BFI London Film Fest
FESTIVAL 8th-19th October


A dreamy odyssey

DANCE
Hofesh Schechter's surreal Theatre of Dreams at Sadler's Wells...


Chaos and transformation

DANCE
Andrea Pena's Bogota explores history and culture at Sadler's Wells East...


September TV Roundup

SCREEN Chief of War, Wednesday 2, Smoke, Dexter: Resurrection, The Institute, Stick, Fisk, more...

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DANCE: Acosta Danza, Sadler's Wells
DANCE: Vlaemsch at Sadler's Wells
STAGE: How to Be a Dancer, SW East
DANCE: Murmuration at the Peacock
INTERVIEW: Corey Sherman/Big Boys
Shadows @ London's FrightFest
DANCE: Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells
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now showing

Sandbag Dam


Powerfully observant drama about young men in rural Croatia


Zootopia 2 [aka Zootropolis 2]


Madcap action comedy continues the raucous adventures of Nick & Judy


Christy


Ben Foster and Sydney Sweeney are terrific in this standard boxing biopic


Blue Moon


Ethan Hawke is legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart in this offbeat biopic


The Old Woman With the
Knife

Blackly comical Korean thriller is well-staged and loosely plotted


The Carpenter’s Son


Moody and very grisly biblical horror with Noah Jupe and Nicolas Cage


Sisu: Road to Revenge


More grisly action mayhem from Finland, this time with Soviet villains


Sauna


Realistic, warmly involving romance from Denmark with a trans twist


The Ice Tower


Offbeat French fairy tale with Marion Cotillard is murky and slow


The Running Man


Glen Powell's energetic action epic is fun, but not particularly memorable


Nuremberg


Beefy historical epic explores the psychological nature of the Nazis


Park Avenue


Fiona Shaw & Katherine Waterston make underwritten drama watchable


Bull Run


Snappy but impenetrable investment banking comedy with Tom Blyth


Arco


Lovely anime-style animated adventure imagines a vivid future

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VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH
GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE
EDEN & CHARLIE
RELAY
SHELBY OAKS
LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS
THE RUN
HEDDA
SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM...
AFTER THE HUNT
SKETCH
BLUE MOON
BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER
THE WILDERNESS
YOUR HOST
SHE'S THE HE
BROKEN BIRD
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recommended

Cover-Up


Fascinating documentary about legendary journalist Seymour Hersh


Folktales


Involving, moving documentary about an unusual Norwegian high school


Wake Up Dead Man


Viscerally charged romantic drama with Jesse Buckley & Paul Mescal


Hamnet


Viscerally charged romantic drama with Jesse Buckley & Paul Mescal


Pillion


Beneath its provocative surface, this is an unusually sensitive romance


Eternity


Witty afterlife romantic comedy hinges on an engaging dilemma


The Secret Agent


Witty and riveting 1970s Brazilian thriller starring Wagner Moura


Rental Family


Engaging comedy-drama set in Tokyo and starring Brendan Fraser


The Thing With Feathers


Benedict Cumberbatch takes on grief in this artful, inventive odyssey


Zodiac Killer Project


Cheeky deconstructed true crime documentary is funny and revealing


Wicked: For Good


Darker and more emotional conclusion to the fantastical epic


Cactus Pears


Gorgeously observational drama from rural India is an unexpected gem


My Father’s Shadow


Set in 1993, this Nigerian-British odyssey is powerfully invlvcing

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JAY KELLY
ARCO
LEFT-HANDED GIRL
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER
300 LETTERS
IN YOUR DREAMS
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
TRAIN DREAMS
THE CHORAL
DIE MY LOVE
BELEN
PETER HUJAR'S DAY
ODYSSEY
THE MARBLES
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