MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Fleecing the Wall Street Croesuses
MARIA DUARTE is left in high spirits by a film that charts an extraordinary case of the poor beating the rich at their own game
Paul Dano as Keith Gill, aka YouTuber Roaring Kitty
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STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
Dumb Money (15)
Directed by Craig Gillespie
BASED on the insane true story of how ordinary people turned the tables on Wall Street during the pandemic by making a packet as they transformed GameStop — the video game retailer — into a hot stock investment phenomenon.
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