A more wistful film than usual by Anderson, who is back in fine form as we enter the world of a fictional play populated by a range of eccentric characters.
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Asteroid City (2023)
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All About Eve (1950)
Mankiewicz’s enduring classic about the glamour of showbiz, warts and all, marked by loyal friendships and diabolical schemes, remains one of the wittiest and spriteliest of Classical Hollywood dramas.
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
There’s 1960s nostalgia overload in Linklater’s third animated feature, which is a mostly engaging take on the cultural phenomena surrounding the 1969 Moon landing, told through one boy’s fantasy of becoming an astronaut.
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Daughters of the Dust (1991)
It’s hard to find a debut feature this dreamy and evocative, as Dash lends historical voice to her people—the generations of Gullahs who lived on the South Carolina Sea Islands as they endured slavery and faced a modernising 20th century.
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Oppenheimer (2023)
This could be Nolan’s greatest achievement so far—a stunning biopic imagined as a complex, time-ticking paranoia thriller as the sheer burden of scientific progress meets the retroactive traumatic weight of 20th-century history.
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Barbie (2023)
Fun, wacky and occasionally surprising, Gerwig’s candy-coloured third solo feature tries to say something about the perils of gender oppression and excessive commodification with moderate success.
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People vs. Larry Flynt, The (1996)
Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love steal the show in this entertaining textbook biopic on the infamous multi-millionaire publisher of pornographic magazines who fought valiantly against the religious right for the freedom of expression.
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023)
Tom Cruise, the consummate entertainer, once again shows us why he’s Hollywood’s last action hero in this penultimate M:I outing that is somewhat bogged down by plotting that is way too reliant on its airy-fairy MacGuffin.
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Master Gardener (2022)
Schrader keeps it low-key in this slow-burn drama about a convict-turned-gardener who takes on a young woman caught in bad company as an apprentice.
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Beyond Utopia (2023)
An extraordinary Oscar-worthy documentary about North Koreans who have defected, with startlingly real footage of escape and told in such a highly-suspenseful and intense manner that may even put the finest thrillers to shame.
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