MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Film round-up: October 31, 2024
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Anora, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Blitz, and Heretic
LAS VEGAS HERE WE COME: Mark Eidelshtein and Mikey Madison, centre, in Anora (2024)
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Anora (18)
Directed by Sean Baker
★★★★
A WORTHY winner of this year’s Palme d’Or prize at Cannes, Sean Baker’s enthralling drama is a grittier take on Pretty Woman with a Russian twist.
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