Contributor Ella Kemp

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Reviews

Return to Seoul

Davy Chou’s bittersweet comedy of a Korean adoptee searching for her biological parents is powered by a dazzling lead performance.

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The Oscar Goes To...

Why Pete Davidson should win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar

His turn as the vapid, insecure David in Bodies Bodies Bodies proves there's more to Davidson than tabloid headlines and Saturday Night Live skits.
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Disenchanted

Anyone with fond memories of the 2007 meta-fairytale banger, Enchanted, starring Amy Adams, is in for a surprise and a treat.

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Living

Oliver Hermanus teams up with Kazuo Ishiguro and Bill Nighy for a British reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece, Ikiru.

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Interviews

Ruben Östlund: ‘I was interested in beauty as a currency’

The two-time Palme d'Or-winning provocateur chats idealism, misogyny and modeling as Triangle of Sadness hits cinemas.
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Red Rocket

Simon Rex plays a washed-up porn actor in Sean Baker’s sparkling character study set around the Texan fringes.

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Flee

A gay Afghan man leaves his home for a new life in Denmark in Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s moving documentary.

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Mothering Sunday

Eva Husson’s English-language debut is a watered down adaptation of Graham Swift’s eponymous novel.

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Another Round

Mads Mikkelsen and director Thomas Vinterberg continue their midlife crisis odyssey in rousing fashion.

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Songs My Brothers Taught Me

There’s poetry in the mundane at every turn in Chloé Zhao’s impressive debut feature from 2015.

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The Perfect Candidate

Haifaa Al Mansour’s latest sees female doctor challenge Saudi Arabian social norms by running for local election.

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Zombi Child

A history lesson turns into a horror movie in Bertrand Bonello’s bold reclamation of the zombie legend.

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