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Why cinema keeps returning to the Holocaust
‘It will always be less hellish than the reality’  
Why cinema keeps returning to the Holocaust
Three new films attempt to address the Holocaust. But can cinema ever hope to adequately confront humanity’s darkest chapter?
‘This is not about the past, it’s about now’  
Jonathan Glazer on his holocaust film The Zone of Interest
Picks of the week
Ranked  
The 25 best Christmas films
The 25 best Christmas films
How we made  
‘Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by watching a brain surgeon’: Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making Brazil
‘Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by watching a brain surgeon’: Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making Brazil
Ava DuVernay  
‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’
‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’
Julianne Moore  
‘Like every other woman in the world, I do ceramics’
‘Like every other woman in the world, I do ceramics’
Elf interest: why the Christmas favourite is actually a chilly lesson in capitalism
Stuart Heritage
Elf interest: why the Christmas favourite is actually a chilly lesson in capitalism
Shirley Anne Field: a smart and seductive key player in the British New Wave
Peter Bradshaw
Shirley Anne Field: a smart and seductive key player in the British New Wave
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Trace Lysette superb as painful homecoming heals family wounds
Monica  
Trace Lysette superb as painful homecoming heals family wounds
Lysette is excellent as a young woman returning home to care for her dying mother in Andrea Pallaoro’s intelligently crafted film
Reviews
Band Four  
Hong Kong goes indie as musical family get the band back together
Hong Kong goes indie as musical family get the band back together
The Three Musketeers: Milady  
More plotting, fighting and galloping derring-do
More plotting, fighting and galloping derring-do
The Lost Boys  
Passionate and political youth-prison love story
Passionate and political youth-prison love story
Godzilla Minus One  
Rageful monster is one of the best in the series
Rageful monster is one of the best in the series
A Black Jesus  
Religious rites and refugees collide in Sicilian village
Religious rites and refugees collide in Sicilian village
We recommend
Very freaky, very scary, very erotic
Under the Skin  
Very freaky, very scary, very erotic
Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi horror-flick, starring Scarlett Johansson as an extraterrestrial roaming Glasgow in a white van, picking up men, is visually stunning and deeply disturbing
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