Eileen review – Anne Hathaway transfixes in off-kilter thriller
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Sundance film festival: the Oscar winner gives a pitch-perfect turn in an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s hit novel that doesn’t push its weirdness far enoughThere’s ...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/22/eileen-review-anne-hathaway-thriller-sundance-film-festival

Alice, Darling and the importance of showing emotional abuse on screen
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The new film starring Anna Kendrick is one of the few visual narratives to deftly handle the insidious effects of an emotionally abusive relationshipIf not guided by an ominous score and a remarkable lead performance of brittle, jittery anxiety, it might take ...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/22/alice-darling-showing-emotional-abuse-on-screen

Babylon review – Damien Chazelle’s messy, exhausting tale of early Hollywood
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Despite star wattage from Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, ​the ​La La Land​ director’s ​overcooked portrait of a nascent Tinseltown...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/22/babylon-review-damien-chazelle-margot-robbie-brad-pitt-messy-exhausting-tale-of-early-hollywood

Past Lives review – delicately sad romantic drama is a real achievement
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Sundance film festival: playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with a beautiful, aching story about childhood sweethearts reconnectingPlaywright Celine Song, who received ...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/22/past-lives-review-delicately-sad-romantic-drama-is-a-real-achievement

The Starling Girl review – Eliza Scanlen shines in transgressive coming of age drama
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Sundance film festival: the Sharp Objects star steals the spotlight as a 17-year-old fundamentalist Christian in an intoxicating, forbidden relationship with her older youth pastorThe...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/21/the-starling-girl-movie-review-eliza-scanlen-sundance-film-festival

Director Simon Stone: ‘My heroes are women’
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The innovative Australian director who gained acclaim for his version of Yerma starring Billie Piper is now reframing Phaedra as a postmenopausal love story with Janet McTeerSimon Stone does things differently. As a young dir...

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jan/21/director-simon-stone-my-heroes-are-women-phaedra-janet-mcteer-national-theatre-billie-piper-yerma

Holy Spider – prurient Iranian serial killer drama
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Based on the real-life case of a man who murdered 16 women, Ali Abbasi’s tense film feels at once timely and dehumanisingThe third feature from Copenhagen-based Iranian director Ali Abbasi shares with his breakthrough film, the troll-thriller Border,...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/21/holy-spider-prurient-iranian-serial-killer-drama-ali-abbasi

More Than Ever review – thoughtful drama about how to die well
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Vicky Krieps shows her emotional range as a woman taking ownership of terminal illness in Emily Atef’s sensitive film co-starring the late Gaspard UllielCinema has traditionally had a rather dubious relationship w...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/21/more-than-ever-review-vicky-krieps-gaspard-ulliel-emily-atef-thoughtful-drama-about-how-to-die-well