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Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley
‘Never repress a woman – because it will come out’
The actors star in a true-life 1920s tale of a snobbish small town upset by poison-pen letters. They discuss falling in love with one another, the f-word and the parallels with today’s internet trolling
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Dench, Swinton and Biggins
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‘The worst film ever made’
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Barry Keoghan as John Lennon?
Who Sam Mendes should cast in his Beatles movies
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Memory
Survivors grapple with an unstable past in a delicate, painful duet
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard excel in Michel Franco’s absorbing story about the unnerving reunion of a care worker and a friend from her past
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Dor (Longing)
Herding sheep as a delicate exploration of belonging
Perfect Days
Wim Wenders explores a quiet life in Tokyo
The Moon Thieves
Absurd boyband heist movie is fiendishly watchable
Spaceman
Adam Sandler consoled by unscary giant spider in deep space
Shoshana
A quiet love story entangled in deadly Middle East politics
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In LA, directors have clubbed together to save a landmark cinema. Why don’t Brits do the same? 
