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Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 1 – Past Lives

Celine Song’s quietly bewitching drama told a complex story of shifting identity and love with beguilingly simple means

Greta Lee on Past Lives
‘Seeing an Asian woman 15ft high felt so radical and really dangerous’

Picks of the week

‘Hypnotically terrible’
Readers on 15 so-bad-they’re-brilliant Christmas movies

‘Cosmetic surgery? Just wear a hat!’
US sitcom legends Jane Curtin and Harriet Sansom Harris on AI, ageing and aliens

Lily Gladstone on Killers of the Flower Moon
'It’s paramount Native stories are told by indigenous film-makers’

‘It felt like a Greek tragedy’
The shocking truth behind wrestling drama The Iron Claw

‘Oh, the importance of the phallus!’
Paul Rhys on Saltburn, Napoleon and viagra romp Men Up

Cate Blanchett
‘Tár would have been jealous of Maestro. Fo’ shizz’

Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

Priscilla
Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wife

Based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, the film shows how a naive schoolgirl became trapped behind the gates of Graceland in a bizarrely co-dependent relationship

Reviews

Sweet Sue
Bleak moments explored in cartoony theatre of mockery

Bleak moments explored in cartoony theatre of mockery

The Boy and the Heron
Miyazaki’s mysterious, magical fantasy on grief and meaning

Miyazaki’s mysterious, magical fantasy on grief and meaning

Cats in the Museum
Kids toon in which moggies defend masterpieces from mice

Kids toon in which moggies defend masterpieces from mice

Society of the Snow
Cannibalism in the ice in incredible real-life survival tale

Cannibalism in the ice in incredible real-life survival tale

All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars
Dreamlike study of tsunami survivors

We recommend

Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman’s dark fusion of Shakespeare and Dickens

In a three-hour, 40th anniversary rerelease, this Swedish family saga unfolds with emotional power, wonder and brilliant acting

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Best Documentary Short Film

A Mouthful of Petrol

A shared passion for banger racing, a rough style of racing in self-built cars, becomes the catalyst for parental lessons when racing hero Wayne mentors his 12 year old son Jai-Dee toward his debut race. This coming of age documentary reframes performances of masculinity.

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