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Is this the most open race in recent memory?
While last year’s Academy Awards progressed with relative predictability, this year pundits are split and the four big categories are too close to call
Oscars class photo  
Saldaña squished and Chalamet chafing as Ariana and Cynthia bag the best seats
Inside this year’s Oscar goody bags  
$1m of disaster relief, spliffs and a reimagined backgammon experience
Picks of the week
Gene Hackman: the star of every scene he was in
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Gene Hackman: the star of every scene he was in
Interview  
Ron Perlman on Trump: ‘A snake-oil con-artist’
Ron Perlman on Trump: ‘A snake-oil con-artist’
‘Writhing in agony’  
Andrew Scott passed a kidney stone at the 2020 Sags
Andrew Scott passed a kidney stone at the 2020 Sags
Bong Joon Ho  
‘I wish I had Ken Loach’s energy’
‘I wish I had Ken Loach’s energy’
The reader interview  
Mischa Barton: ‘I’m a huge Oasis fan’
Mischa Barton: ‘I’m a huge Oasis fan’
There’s a reason Hugh Grant is the best thing in middling movies: he writes his own lines
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There’s a reason Hugh Grant is the best thing in middling movies: he writes his own lines
 
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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Pamela Anderson dazzles as Vegas dancer hitting midlife
The Last Showgirl  
Pamela Anderson dazzles as Vegas dancer hitting midlife
Anderson’s depiction of an older performer’s struggles, as youth slips away and family fractures, rivals Demi Moore’s in The Substance
This week's reviews
Papa  
Brutal family murder is backdrop for study of parental culpability
Brutal family murder is backdrop for study of parental culpability
Superboys of Malegaon  
Boisterous heartwarmer about movie-loving underdogs
Boisterous heartwarmer about movie-loving underdogs
We Will Not Fade Away  
Study of five Ukrainian teens’ brief escape from war
Study of five Ukrainian teens’ brief escape from war
Johatsu  
Poignant account of Japan’s ‘voluntarily disappeared’
Poignant account of Japan’s ‘voluntarily disappeared’
Chang’an  
Animated Chinese tale of poet-warriors is spectacular work of art
Animated Chinese tale of poet-warriors is spectacular work of art
We recommend
Gene Hackman is unforgettable in Coppola’s paranoid classic
The Conversation  
Gene Hackman is unforgettable in Coppola’s paranoid classic
Hackman’s surveillance expert Harry Caul is inexpressibly sad and lonely – a classic and poignant American everyman
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