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Courtesy of Showtime
TV review: Work In Progress finds humour in profound issues
Abby McEnany's smart comedy series about an anxiety-ridden lesbian in her mid-40s thrives on disrupting assumptions Read more
Review: In Fabric is a stylish, campy film about a cursed red dress
Peter Strickland's retro thriller about consumerism, dating and ennui is drenched in genre excess Read more
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Review: Varda By Agnès is a sublime career retrospective
Agnès Varda's final film is true to the late French cinema icon's radical spirit Read more
Review: Netflix animated film I Lost My Body is sweet, sad and complex
Film about a severed hand searching for its owner in wintry Paris is meaningful and melancholy Read more
Review: Dark Waters is a legal procedural with a big difference
Todd Haynes’s underdog picture about a lawyer taking on a nasty corporation has an immediate, tactile quality Read more
Claire Folger
Review: Knives Out is a delightfully arch whodunit
Director Rian Johnson's star-studded murder mystery nimbly updates an Agatha Christie-style story with Trumpian political subtext Read more
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Review: Mati Diop's Atlantics is a deft, transfixing debut
Senegal-set supernatural drama, which will stream on Netflix, offers a gentle and empathetic view of migration Read more
Review: A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood is all kinds of wonderful
Marielle Heller’s biopic about children’s TV host Fred Rogers is a graceful look at patience and loving-kindness Read more
Review: The Irishman is so good you can almost overlook the distracting de-aging
Martin Scorsese’s starry epic American crime story is filled with authentic and sharply observed details Read more
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The Crown season 3 review: the royals lean into vulnerability
Netflix's historical soap opera returns with Olivia Colman stepping into the role of Queen Elizabeth II Read more
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Review: Synonyms is wildly unpredictable yet painfully familiar
Israeli director Nadav Lapid goes for the jugular with a maniacal exploration of toxic nationalism, identity and shame Read more
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Review: Pain And Glory is full of high drama and quiet realizations
Pedro Almodóvar's self-reflective film starring Antonio Banderas is a moving meditation on aging and the lasting effects of repression Read more
TV review: Mrs. Fletcher is sexy, messy and full of nuance
HBO dramedy gives Kathryn Hahn a juicy leading role as a middle-age empty nester with a MILF porn addiction Read more
Kimberley French / Twentieth Century Fox
Review: Jojo Rabbit is a clever satire of hero worship
Once the queasy/funny tone sets in, Taika Waititi's Nazi comedy never steps wrong Read more
A24 Films
Review: The Lighthouse is wickedly gleeful horror
Robert Eggers's film starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson is a giddy and unrelenting homage to the silent era Read more
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Review: Jenny Slate confronts her fears in Netflix special Stage Fright
The comic enlists Obvious Child director Gillian Robespierre for a fun stand-up documentary that unpacks her material in an intimate and winning way Read more
TV review: Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen is dense with ideas and alive with possibility
This smart refresh on Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s deconstruction of superhero storytelling feels relevant and unpredictable Read more
Sony Pictures Television/Netflix
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is a Netflix spinoff worthy of its predecessor
Vince Gilligan's feature length coda shows us what happened to Jesse Pinkman after Walter White's death – and gives Aaron Paul the showcase he deserves Read more
Review: Harpoon is a psychological thriller that hits all its targets
Rob Grant’s genre-stretching film is both a barbed comedy of manners and a survival picture Read more
Review: MS Slavic 7 is a small, meditative drama from a thoughtful Toronto director
Sofia Bohdanowicz’s latest film (in collaboration with actor Deragh Campbell) asks lots of existential questions Read more