GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Burning the lungs of the planet
MARIA DUARTE recommends a documentary feature that vividly portrays the horror of Amazon forest's destruction under the Bolsonaro government
POVERTY AND GREED: Slush and burn of the Uru-eu-wau-wau forests
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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.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Territory (12A)
Directed by Alex Pritz
THE FILM follows Bitate, a young indigenous leader who rallies his people to fight against the land grabbing farmers and illegal settlers who, encouraged by the right-wing administration of Jair Bolsonaro, enter their “legally” protected territory in the Brazilian Amazon and seize land.
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