MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a film on the women whose actions triggered the demise of the global beauty-contest industry
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
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PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
Misbehaviour (12A)
Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe
THE 1970 Miss World protest by the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement, which put them on the global map overnight, is immortalised and celebrated in this wonderfully entertaining yet poignant comedy drama.
The protesters, who infiltrated the televised beauty pageant as audience members, disrupted the proceedings live on air. They hurled flour bombs and fired a water pistol at the show’s host, the womanising “comedy legend” Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear), following his appalling sexist jokes and in protest at the demeaning way the competition treated and portrayed women.
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