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Directed by: Joachim Trier Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning Certificate: 15 Released: 26 December 2025 Rating: 9/10 There’s an epidemic of daddy issues abroad in cinemas right now. Last month, Noah Baumbach cast George Clooney as the beloved Hollywood icon Jay Kelly, desperately
Directed by: Jafar PanahiStarring: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim AziziCertificate: 12AReleased: 5 DecemberRating: 8/10 On paper Jafar Panahi’s eleventh feature film might seem like a hard sell. Vahid, an Azerbaijani mechanic and white van man is working late one night in his Tehran workshop when he hears a
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Directed by: Noah BaumbachStarring: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura DernCertificate: 15Released: 14 NovemberRating: 8/10 Even though he’s been making movies for over 30 years, George Clooney sometimes feels like a simulation of a classic Hollywood icon, with such charm, glamour and ease in a dinner jacket that you
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Directed by: Richard Linklater Starring: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott Certificate: 15 Rating: 8/10 At this point the musical biopic is an unstoppable juggernaut of a genre, a heedless commercial cybertruck speeding on regardless of artistic success or audience appetite. In 2025 we’ve had Bob and the
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Directed by: Josh Safdie Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion Rating: 9/10 If the Safdie brothers have a major theme it’s male chutzpah. From Lenny, the dreamy, deadbeat dad in Daddy Longlegs (2009), through Connie, the budding criminal mastermind in Good Times (2017), planning both
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Directed by: Lynne Ramsay Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield Certificate: 15 Rating: 8/10 Over the past quarter-century Lynne Ramsay has adapted novels about Ibizan ravers (Morvern Callar), teenage murderers (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and child traffickers (You Were Never Really Here), while remaining the most
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Directed by: Clint Bentley Starring: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr. Certificate: PG Rating: 9/10 Back in 2000, when Uncut secured Denis Johnson’s first interview in 15 years to promote Alison Maclean’s adaptation of Jesus’ Son, we hailed him as “the world’s greatest living writer”
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Directed by: Scott Cooper Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young Rating: 7/10 “I’m just trynna find something real in all the noise,” mumbles Jeremy Allen White, all brooding, ursine intensity as Bruce Springsteen at the heart of Scott Cooper’s new biopic. “You find something real,
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2024: Nashville Malificent
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2020: 24/7 Sylvia Plath
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2017: Hexxing the White House
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2012: Rockefeller Cinderella