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If you happen to be tramping up the Champs Élysées in Paris on a bright summer’s day, you’ll likely see a strange...

The sight of Jodie Foster speaking fluent French is the most engaging element of this limp and convoluted psychodrama from...

At this point in my career as a film critic, it’s not often that a film leaves me truly baffled – perhaps...

“Girls aren’t cool,” their friend Lars (Christian Rubeck) announces at a party, as if women are an accessory. ​“They can be...

Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât,...

The story is delivered through the awed narration of Sister Mary Partington (Thomasin McKenzie), which allows us to enjoy the...

For me, the communal dimension is the most fascinating part of wail-worthy films. Crying synchronises a room, creating a wordless, collective experience...

I discovered the work of the American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman through sheer pot lock. I used to work for the...

Walt Whitman famously professed in his poem ​‘Song to Myself’ to ​“contain multitudes”, and in doing so encapsulated the mysteries...

Few birthday celebrations can ever match the surreal spectacle that the Iraqi state would enforce each year that Saddam Hussein...