Review – Mike Leigh delivers a violent history lesson with ‘Peterloo’
Mike Leigh shines a light on a shocking and horrific event in British history with his epic drama Peterloo.
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Review – ‘First Man’ is a sophisticated masterpiece about a human triumph
Damien Chazelle directs Ryan Gosling to a terrific take on Neil Armstrong and the journey to the moon in historical biopic First Man.
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Review – ‘Mary Magdalene’ is Biblical blandness, with a Jesus no one would want to follow
This supposedly revisionist take on the story of Jesus’s only female apostle is actually just Bible greatest hits.
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Review – Battle of the Sexes
Emma Stone and Steve Carell excel as warring tennis players in this stirring tale of the fight against 70s misogyny in sport.
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Review – Breathe
Andrew Garfield plays a real-life polio sufferer in Andy Serkis’s directorial debut Breathe.
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Review – The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci swaps Westminster for the Kremlin in dark-edged Soviet satire The Death of Stalin.
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Review – Victoria & Abdul
Judi Dench makes for a wonderfully curmudgeonly Queen Victoria in the quaint, sweet-natured drama Victoria & Abdul.
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Review – The Beguiled
Sofia Coppola remakes an old Clint Eastwood movie with a dark, feminist edge in American Civil War drama The Beguiled.
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Blu-ray Review – Neruda (2016)
Pablo Larraín delivers a visually rich and thematically adventurous historical drama about a Communist poet forced into hiding.
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Review – Churchill
Brian Cox gives a towering performance as Britain’s most iconic Prime Minister in the ultimately disappointing historical drama Churchill.
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Review – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Guy Ritchie takes Arthurian legend to the streets, with added Cockney slang and baffling accents. Cor blimey, guvnor!
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