Contributor Matt Thrift

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Reviews

The Iron Mask

Not even a Schwarzenegger-Chan showdown is enough to salvage this unfathomably dire action folly.

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Interviews

Richard Stanley: ‘I got a phone call at 3am from a guy claiming to be Nic Cage’

The cult director discusses his long-awaited return to mainstream filmmaking with Color Out of Space.
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Interviews

‘When people came to Rome, they only wanted to meet the Pope and Fellini’

Fiammetta Profili reflects on her time working with Federico Fellini during his final decade.
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Reviews

Marriage Story

Noah Baumbach delivers what just might be his masterpiece with this bitterly funny divorce drama.

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In Retrospect
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Terminator: Dark Fate

New model, same result: Cameron, Schwarzenegger and Hamilton reunite for this serviceable belated sequel to T2.

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Interviews

James Gray: ‘I was armed with an 800lb gorilla – the movie star’

The Ad Astra director on how Brad Pitt helped him to make the sprawling sci-fi opus he had inside his head.
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Reviews

La Flor

An epic in the literal sense of the world. Mariano Llinás goes long with this thrilling paean to genre cinema through the ages.

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Reviews

Never Look Away

One of Germany’s most important living artists is the subject of this dud biography from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

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Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

Keane Reeves’ ‘excommunicado’ protagonist wages a one-man war in this ante-upping threequel.

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In Retrospect
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Reviews

Tolkien

Nicholas Hoult stars in this bland literary biopic of the life of Lord of the Rings scribe JRR Tolkien.

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Reviews

The White Crow

Ralph Fiennes directs this staid biography of ballet maestro and political dissident, Rudolf Nureyev.

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In Retrospect
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Interviews

Lee Chang-dong: ‘Today we are living in Murakami’s world’

The South Korean maestro talks literary inspiration and his mysterious new psychodrama, Burning.

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