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‘If you’re anointed tonight, you can be dumped on tomorrow’
Steve Martin on fame, failure and TV humiliation
Jerry Seinfeld calls him ‘the most idolised comedian ever’. Yet after five decades at the top, success still makes him cringe. He discusses doubting himself, starring in a documentary – and that Dennis Pennis encounter
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‘You can’t always win in this industry’
Theo James on fame, Guy Ritchie and the actor’s hustle
‘I’m still trying to recover’
Annie Potts on Ghostbusters, Toy Story – and the car crash that almost killed her
Kind hearts, ladykillers and whisky galore
Ealing comedies – ranked!
‘I felt an urgent need for empathy’
The Iranian-American director uniting her two cultures in film
M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes
Peter Bradshaw
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The Delinquents review
Beguilingly surreal slow-motion Buenos Aires heist tale
If Pedro Almodóvar and Eric Rohmer teamed up to compose a meanderingly long crime caper it might look like this
This week's reviews
Calvinia review
Jarringly nostalgic look at a South African childhood
Baltimore review
Vivid, intense biopic of heiress turned terrorist Rose Dugdale
Robot Dreams review
Tender dog-and-robot love story set in old-school New York
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review
Time to consign franchise to the spirit realm
The Persian Version review
Iranian-American family comedy cranks up the charm
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Dev Patel rides high on sublimely beautiful quest
Director David Lowery conjures up visual wonders and metaphysical mysteries from the anonymously authored 14th-century chivalric poem
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M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes 
