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Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s wild, joyous coming-of-age drama

Arnold’s feral, fantastical drama set in the rundown Kent of her childhood stars remarkable newcomer Nykiya Adams as a marginalised child who makes a strange new friend

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Barry Keoghan is charismatic and incredibly sad in the magical British drama Bird

4/5 Andrea Arnold, the filmmaker behind ‘Fish Tank’ and ‘American Honey’, has returned with a sensitive, fairytale-like coming-of-age tale

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BFI London Film Festival 2024: What to watch, from award contenders to hidden foreign gems

The 68th BFI London Film Festival runs from between October 9 and October 20 in London and other major UK cities

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German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors

Cast member of Palme d’Or contender shot in Kent says the high number of chaperones and intimacy coordinators on set was over the top

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Disco Boy review – Franz Rogowski adds another dimension to intense French Foreign Legion drama

The German actor’s expressive performance anchors Giacomo Abbruzzese’s bold, continent-crossing feature debut

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Shadow Distribution Acquires North American Rights To Drama 'Lubo'

U.S. distributor Shadow Distribution acquires North American rights to Italian drama 'Lubo,' which premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. The film fol...

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From Passages to Priscilla: film’s biggest fashion moments in 2023

Whether it’s leather jackets loaded with meaning or Emma Stone’s enormous sleeves, costumes are crucial to the look and feel of a movie. We look at the best onscreen clothing of the year

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The best films of 2023, from Barbie and Asteroid City to Killers of the Flower Moon

Leonardo DiCaprio grimaced. Mia Goth killed. Margot Robbie had at least three existential crises. But which of their films came out on top? Our chief critic Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best movies of the year in cinema

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Streaming: the best Halloweens on screen

It’s that horror film time of year, but Halloween scenes cast their spell in classics as diverse as Meet Me in St Louis, Mean Girls and ET

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Passages review – body language speaks volumes in seductive three-way love story

Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski are brilliantly believable in Ira Sachs’s exploration of a gay marriage that’s challenged when one partner has a passionate affair with a young woman

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‘You feel the director’s eyes on your body’: How Passages became the saddest, sexiest movie of the year

The year’s most provocative film sees a gay couple (played by Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski) left shattered when one of them embarks on an affair with a woman. Tom Murray speaks to Rogowski and director Ira Sachs about criticism, sex scenes and our fascination with love triangles

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Passages review: The highly publicised sex scenes are just one small part of this gut-wrenching drama

Ben Whishaw, Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos make up the sexually fluid love triangle at the heart of the film

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Passages review – Ira Sachs strikes gold with sophisticated love triangle

A gay man cheats on his husband with a straight woman in this fiercely sexy and heartbreaking tale of young Parisians

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‘Ben has a great pelvis and it’s wonderful to show it’: Ira Sachs, Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw on their erotic new film

Rogowski and Whishaw star in Passages, Sachs’ film about a gay couple whose marriage is upturned when one has an affair with a woman. They talk power struggles, micro-gestures and a sex scene that proved too much for US censors

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Ira Sachs wanted to make 'a film of intimacy.' It got him an NC-17 rating

Ira Sachs never set out to make an NC-17-rated film

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Sydney Film Festival 2023 program: Highlights chosen by our film critics

In its 70th year, the festival program boasts almost 300 films — from international heavy hitters and award-winners to lesser-known gems and trailblazing debuts. Here are nine you can't miss.

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Berlin film festival 2023 roundup – prestige, politics and ethical starpower

This year’s Berlinale continued the tradition of combining earnestness with red-carpet glamour – featuring Kristen Stewart, Bono and Steven Spielberg, and this time some real crowd pleasers

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Disco Boy review – freaky trip into the heart of imperial darkness

Giacomo Abbruzzese’s drama follows Belarusian Aleksei on his journey into the French Foreign Legion and a very strange epiphany in the Niger Delta

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Passages review – Ira Sachs excels with thorny love triangle drama

The writer-director makes a return to form with an explicit, emotionally bruising film about a bisexual narcissist

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‘On the same level as the Nazis’: the film about Germany’s postwar persecution of gay men

The law used by the Third Reich to oppress gay men continued long after its downfall. Director Sebastian Meise on Great Freedom, his searing film about a man incarcerated almost all his life

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Great Freedom review – powerful gay prison drama set in postwar Germany

A concentration camp survivor is incarcerated for decades for his sexuality in this nonlinear film with a remarkable performance from Franz Rogowski

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Great Freedom review – formidably intelligent gay prison drama that finds liberty inside

German actor Franz Rogowski is typically intense as recidivist Hans who finds a form of freedom while incarcerated

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