Film
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Are Hollywood ‘showmances’ losing their shine?
In The Spotlight Teasing real-life romance between movie leads is an old Tinseltown publicity trick but modern audiences may have had enough
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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Film reviews: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,’ and ‘Sirat’
Feature An inconvenient love torments a would-be couple, a gonzo time traveler seeks to save humanity from AI, and a father’s desperate search goes deeply sideways
By The Week US Published
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The biggest box office flops of the 21st century
in depth Unnecessary remakes and turgid, expensive CGI-fests highlight this list of these most notorious box-office losers
By David Faris Published
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My Father’s Shadow: a ‘magically nimble’ film
The Week Recommends Akinola Davies Jr’s touching and ‘tender’ tale of two brothers in 1990s Nigeria
By The Week UK Published
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Send Help: Sam Raimi’s ‘compelling’ plane-crash survival thriller
The Week Recommends Rachel McAdams stars as an office worker who gets stranded on a desert island with her boss
By The Week UK Published
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The 8 best superhero movies of all time
the week recommends A genre that now dominates studio filmmaking once struggled to get anyone to take it seriously
By David Faris Published
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Catherine O'Hara: The madcap actress who sparkled on ‘SCTV’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’
Feature O'Hara cracked up audiences for more than 50 years
By The Week US Published
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Wuthering Heights: ‘wildly fun’ reinvention of the classic novel lacks depth
Talking Point Emerald Fennell splits the critics with her sizzling spin on Emily Brontë’s gothic tale
By Irenie Forshaw, The Week UK Published
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‘Melania’: A film about nothing
Feature Not telling all
By The Week US Published
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Melania: an ‘ice-cold’ documentary
Talking Point The film has played to largely empty cinemas, but it does have one fan
By The Week UK Published
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Nouvelle Vague: ‘a film of great passion’
The Week Recommends Richard Linklater’s homage to the French New Wave
By The Week UK Published
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Is This Thing On? – Bradley Cooper’s ‘likeable and spirited’ romcom
The Week Recommends ‘Refreshingly informal’ film based on the life of British comedian John Bishop
By The Week UK Published
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Film reviews: ‘Send Help’ and ‘Private Life’
Feature An office doormat is stranded alone with her awful boss and a frazzled therapist turns amateur murder investigator
By The Week US Published
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Movies to watch in February
the week recommends Time travelers, multiverse hoppers and an Iraqi parable highlight this month’s offerings during the depths of winter
By David Faris Published
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