GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
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The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE is moved by a real-life story of rescue at sea that upturns easy assumptions about political motivations in times of war
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
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ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
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The Commander (15)
Directed by Edoardo De Angelis
ON the night of October 16 1940, during its first Atlantic patrol off the island of Madeira, the Italian submarine Cappellini sighted the Belgian steamer Kabalo carrying aircraft spare parts, and after unsuccessfully firing three torpedoes, sank her with its deck gun.
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