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Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission

silverguide.site – Tale of a brilliant molecular biologist cast into outer space with only a helpful alien for company is a bit silly, but Gosling’s charisma keeps it watchable…
Project Hail Mary review – Ryan Gosling’s charm carries unserious last-ditch space mission
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‘Lack of class’: Quentin Tarantino hits back at Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction N-word criticism

silverguide.site – Director rounds on actor, who acted in the cult film, saying he feels disrespected, and claiming cynical reasons behind her recent comments…
‘Lack of class’: Quentin Tarantino hits back at Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction N-word criticism
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Turner & Constable review – excellent survey of two great rivals in English painting

silverguide.site – Documentary accompanying Tate Britain’s exhibition of the two competing painters comes with approachable expertise and beautiful photography…
Turner & Constable review – excellent survey of two great rivals in English painting
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Blueberry Dreams review – a gentle, humorous portrait of a Georgian family who start a fruit farm

silverguide.site – War is always in the background, but the focus is on a kindly father, his long-suffering wife and young sons struggling to make a profit from working the land…
Blueberry Dreams review – a gentle, humorous portrait of a Georgian family who start a fruit farm
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Why One Battle After Another should win the best picture Oscar

silverguide.site – Paul Thomas Anderson’s capering clash between a demented repressive regime and ragtag freedom fighters is both cartoonish and deadly serious – and perfectly tuned to its times…
Why One Battle After Another should win the best picture Oscar
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Learning You review – autism road trip drama is hard to bear

silverguide.site – This sappy and ill-conceived tale about a father, his autistic son and a lifesize toy bear suffers from sanctimonious religious messaging and dreadful dialogue…
Learning You review – autism road trip drama is hard to bear
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Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-language film

silverguide.site – Leisa Gwenllian is a force of nature as working-class heroine Effi in this big screen version of Gary Owen’s one-woman play…
Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-language film
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Et tutu, Timothée? Backlash mounts over Chalamet snipes at opera and ballet

silverguide.site – Jamie Lee Curtis is among a number of prominent figures to take exception to the Oscar nominee for disparaging artforms ‘no one cares about any more’…
Et tutu, Timothée? Backlash mounts over Chalamet snipes at opera and ballet
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Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’

silverguide.site – Arquette says 1994 film is ‘great on may levels’ but she ‘cannot stand that [the director] has been given a hall pass’…
Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’
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Bad Voodoo review – escaped-convict horror worthy of a theme park ghost train

silverguide.site – A fairly original and twisting plot is skewered by cliched dialogue and unforunate cinematography…
Bad Voodoo review – escaped-convict horror worthy of a theme park ghost train
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Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as company is ‘not making therapy’

silverguide.site – Pete Docter says Pixar will concentrate on more commercially appealing films after staff dissent over deleted scenes that implied lead character was gay…
Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as company is ‘not making therapy’
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The Great Arch review – a visionary architect crushed by the politics of prestige

silverguide.site – Claes Bang plays the Danish designer of Paris’s Grande Arche in a meticulous drama about artistic purity colliding with bureaucratic ego and national vanity…
The Great Arch review – a visionary architect crushed by the politics of prestige
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‘Cathartic violence’: why Kill Bill: Volume 1 is my feelgood movie

silverguide.site – The next in our ongoing series of writers picking their favourite comfort films is an argument that Tarantino’s bloody revenge saga is a feelgood winner…
‘Cathartic violence’: why Kill Bill: Volume 1 is my feelgood movie
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Scarlet review – Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep ‘nothingness’

silverguide.site – The normally great director misses the mark with a wonderfully animated but narratively clunky retelling of the Shakespearean staple…
Scarlet review – Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep ‘nothingness’
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Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar

silverguide.site – With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era…
Why Train Dreams should win the best picture Oscar
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Terraforma review – unhurried portrait of Ascension Island’s human-made nature

silverguide.site – Documentary reflects on how Victorian botanists began to remodel a barren ocean outpost, but omits some crucial environmental and social questions…
Terraforma review – unhurried portrait of Ascension Island’s human-made nature
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‘A very paternalistic attitude’: why is female desire still not taken seriously?

silverguide.site – In documentary The Pink Pill, the fight to provide access to the so-called ‘female Viagra’ exposes an industry that still discounts the needs of women…
‘A very paternalistic attitude’: why is female desire still not taken seriously?
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‘A piece of supremely nasty mischief’: Peter Bradshaw on the White House video

silverguide.site – In a chilling social media video that is beyond irony, clips from Braveheart, Gladiator, Superman and Top Gun are crassly interspersed with real kill-shot footage of the attacks in Iran…
‘A piece of supremely nasty mischief’: Peter Bradshaw on the White House video
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The Game of Thrones movie is coming – but how are they going to make audiences root for the baddies?

silverguide.site – The early intel from George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels paints the Targaryens as tyrants – so making them the heroes is going to require some hefty literary PR…
The Game of Thrones movie is coming – but how are they going to make audiences root for the baddies?
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Oscar race enters final stretch as Sinners gains ground with Actor awards win

silverguide.site – With voting now closed, the months-long campaign for Oscar glory is over – but industry insiders are still dissecting every award-season clue in a tight best picture race…
Oscar race enters final stretch as Sinners gains ground with Actor awards win
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