Film
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Netflix’s Damsel is a terrifying metaphor for marrying into the royal family
They may be royalty, but that doesn’t make them good people,” says Angela Bassett’s character, towards the end of the…
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Drive-Away Dolls’s Geraldine Viswanathan: ‘I want to watch people falling in love who don’t look like Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell’
Geraldine Viswanathan is a minute or two late for our interview – she completely lost her car. When the 28-year-old…
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From Olivia Colman to Cher, our favourite Oscar wins in history
Anyone who loves the Oscars will have their favourite Oscar wins – whether it’s a particularly memorable speech, an unexpected…
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Oscars 2024: Who will win, should win, and who should have got a look in
A sure sign that the 2024 Oscar nominees are pretty good is that the civil wars brewing between their fans…
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Why Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’s bizarre feminist masterpiece, should win the Oscar for Best Picture
For giant sleeves alone, Poor Things deserves to win an Oscar this weekend. In lieu of a Best Sleeves category,…
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Why Oppenheimer should win the Oscar for Best Picture
Is it all Oppenheimer’s to lose? Over the past few months, the race for the Academy Award for Best Picture…
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17 movies that should never have won Oscars, from Shakespeare in Love to Slumdog Millionaire
Any belief that the Oscars award the right films, directors and performances has faded over the years. While every ceremony…
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Dune: Part Two gives great actors insultingly little screen time – but maybe that’s the key to its success
Has there ever been a cast as stacked as Dune: Part Two? The new sci-fi sequel has got to be…
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Love him or hate him, David Lean was ‘the Christopher Nolan of his day’
It makes you happy and want to cry at the same time,” rhapsodised Hoyte van Hoytema, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer who…
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Carey Mulligan is the leading English star of her generation – Maestro confirms it
Have the Oscars started taking Carey Mulligan for granted? It’s a measure of how highly the British actor is regarded…
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