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The 20 best films about doomed love
Ranked  
The 20 best films about doomed love
As Past Lives, a tale of lost love and roads not taken, hits cinemas, get out the tissues as we recall some of cinema’s most heart-wrenching, tortuous romances
Picks of the week
From The Critic to Wicked Little Letters  
10 films to look out for at Toronto film festival 2023
10 films to look out for at Toronto film festival 2023
Many unhappy returns  
Why Asian immigrant cinema is challenging the meaning of home
Why Asian immigrant cinema is challenging the meaning of home
Director Pablo Larraín  
‘Chile is my world. How can I not be allowed to talk about the things that happened to us?’
‘Chile is my world. How can I not be allowed to talk about the things that happened to us?’
Michael Roemer  
How one laughing VHS technician saved the 95-year-old director’s career
How one laughing VHS technician saved the 95-year-old director’s career
Venice’s brave new world  
My cosmic trip to Immersion Island and back
My cosmic trip to Immersion Island and back
Venice film festival 2023  
Auteurs and workers’ rights spotlit at a less starry festival
Auteurs and workers’ rights spotlit at a less starry festival
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
A must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities
Past Lives  
A must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities
Celine Song’s feature debut is delicate and sophisticated and yet also somehow simple and direct
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Reviews
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3  
Rambling and rote travelogue
Rambling and rote travelogue
The Nun II  
Second dose of clerical horror is a demonic dead end
Second dose of clerical horror is a demonic dead end
Sympathy for the Devil  
A top-tier unhinged Nicolas Cage performance
A top-tier unhinged Nicolas Cage performance
A Life on the Farm  
Somerset farmer’s unclassifiable, madcap home movie
Somerset farmer’s unclassifiable, madcap home movie
Blood Flower  
Gore flows in gruesome horror as exorcist teen fights his demons
Gore flows in gruesome horror as exorcist teen fights his demons
We recommend
A glorious, bittersweet comedy of male friendship and midlife crisis
Sideways  
A glorious, bittersweet comedy of male friendship and midlife crisis
Sideways is beautifully written, terrifically acted; it is paced and constructed with such understated mastery that it is a sort of miracle. The observations are pitilessly exact and meshed with impeccably executed sight gags and funny lines, and everything is bathed in the solvent of exquisite sadness. Yet its gentleness and humanity do not preclude a mule-kick of emotional power.
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