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Underwhelming and desperate: This much-loved kids’ yarn deserves better
Harold and the Purple Crayon has been adapted for live action for the first time.
- by Jake Wilson
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James McAvoy buzzes with manic energy in this clever horror
Horror remake Speak No Evil is a clever but nauseating frightener about the consequences of remaining silent in the face of rampant domestic abuse.
- by Sandra Hall
Boxing drama Kid Snow is the kind of Australian film we used to make
Forget about political correctness, director Paul Goldman and the film’s writers have no desire to give us a revisionist version of the past.
- by Sandra Hall
Elton’s raw honesty on fame, sexuality a Toronto film fest highlight
“When I stopped fooling myself, my life turned around,” the iconic pop legend said, as the documentary on his life Elton John: Never Too Late, premiered in Toronto.
- by Michael Idato
Speak No Evil star says film is ‘social more than conventional horror’
For someone who has played a super soldier in Terminator: Dark Fate and a replicant in Blade Runner 2049, Mackenzie Davis has never been more human than in her new film.
- by Louise Rugendyke
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It’s curtains: Paddington’s Chauvel cinema down to ‘its last days’
Having shut the Verona this year, the Palace arthouse chain said its last Oxford Street cinema might not last beyond this month.
- by Garry Maddox
Almost everything in this film will divide audiences – that’s why it’s great
Last Summer suggests that when desire takes hold, morality flies out the window.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★
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Inspired, witty and full of warmth, June Squibb’s Thelma steals the show
Writer-director Josh Margolin has a deft and tender touch when it comes to the tricky relationship between farce and poignancy.
- by Sandra Hall
★★★½
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice offers a heartwarming story about grief
Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton reunite for the long-delayed sequel that never allows schmaltz to overtake the morbid gags.
- by Jake Wilson
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Long after Xena, Lucy Lawless directs a film about another warrior princess
The documentary Never Look Away is about “a wild woman in terms of sex, drugs and punk music” – maverick photojournalist Margaret Moth.
- by Garry Maddox