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Letter to Brezhnev review – terrific return for Merseysiders’ romance with Russian sailors
Ellie Clayton and Angela Simms are superb in a funny, passionate yet still tender adaptation that hugs close to the 1985 film
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Quentin Bell and Olivia Sterling review – two artists with a magic touch
Bell’s strange and charming ceramics celebrate a life dedicated to creativity, while next door Sterling’s bawdier, weirder paintings form…
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‘Up Against It’ Review: An Uneven Medical Dramedy Relies on Sincerity to Mask Its Flaws
Broad beats and narrative contrivances nearly bury the glimmers of emotional truth in this ludicrous but well-meaning blended-family…
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Ireland to boycott Eurovision again over Israeli participation and ongoing Gaza deaths
Ireland joins joins Dutch broadcaster in refusing to take part in 2027 song contest, in second consecutive year of protests
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Million Dollar Quartet review – jumping jukebox show reignites rock’n’roll classics
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1956 get-together is respun with an unsubtle script but some vigorous…
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As the ‘Digger’ Awards Campaign Launches, Will Tom Cruise Do What it Takes to Win an Oscar?
Will Tom Cruise play ball to get an Oscar? Warners is going all in to promote him in 'Digger,' but the $160 million film faces box office…
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Girls creator Lena Dunham welcomes baby girl delivered via surrogate
Writer and actor, 40, had long struggled with endometriosis before undergoing total hysterectomy at age 31
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Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality
By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are…
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‘Faith’ Review: Erin Doherty’s Grieving Mother Approaches Sublimation in a Drama with Otherworldly Overtones
Paul Andrew Williams’ direction refuses to exploit the script’s genre trappings beyond the realm of its characters’ interiority. Read our…
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‘This should be condemned by any thinking human’: film industry rallies behind NAZA directors
Backing comes after Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor were threatened with having their citizenship revoked and accused of treason
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‘Every magazine cover needs to seduce’: designers pick their favourites
From a timeless portrait of Lana Del Rey to an alternative guide to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, experts unpick what makes an enduring,…
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Rhea Seehorn Wins Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Rhea Seehorn won the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series for 'Pluribus.'
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Jean Smart Wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for ‘Hacks’
Jean Smart wins her fifth Emmy for ‘Hacks,’ making history as the first performer to win for every season of a series and tying an acting…
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‘A double entendre in every crevice’: what, beyond near-naked tennis, is Sydney Sweeney’s game?
With her new, semi-nude advert for sports site Novig, the actor cements her reputation as the anti-woke poster girl. But is it real – or…
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‘How We Stand’ Review: Amber Midthunder Stars in a Richly Drawn, Magical-Realist Indigenous Tale
Amber Midthunder stars in 'How We Stand,' directed by Marie Clements and featuring an Indigenous cast. Movie review.
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Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis
The subversive bacchanal for San Francisco’s eccentric underground is ageing out amid an influx of the super-rich
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‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived
Dedicated to the boy whose lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and…
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‘River’ Review: Jane Levy Anchors a Fearlessly Cruel and Visceral Survival Slasher
Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe lead Joshua Giuliano's slasher, which finds evil in beauty and reminds us that horror is not simply a vehicle…
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Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize
May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced exposé of…
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‘I love a bit of mischief!’ Liza Tarbuck on why she’s swapping her Radio 2 mic for a potter’s wheel
Her riotous weekly show had an army of devoted fans. Now Tarbuck has joined the ranks of star presenters leaving the BBC – and she’s…
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‘Trash Mountain’ Review: Caleb Hearon Turns Leading Man in This Gentle Coming-of-Age Dramedy
Kris Rey directs a tender gem from Hearon's own script (written alongside Ruby Caster) about the pleasures and perils of returning home…
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Fall Festival Movies Sold So Far: ‘Rapinoe’ About US Women’s Soccer Icon Lands at HBO Documentary Films
Movies like 'Babies,' 'Ink,' and 'Elsinore' have already sold to distributors ahead of their world premieres at TIFF, Venice, and Telluride.
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Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds
Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this…
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The Criterion Collection Just Got Its First Physical Outpost in Toronto
For Toronto-based fans of the beloved physical media distributor, the just-opened Cinema Cellar is a must-shop. IndieWire stopped by on…