‘We can bury anyone’:Blake Lively,the director and allegations of a smear campaign

‘We can bury anyone’:Blake Lively,the director and allegations of a smear campaign

Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear the actress after she accused Baldoni of misconduct on the set of It Ends With Us.

  • byMegan Twohey,Mike McIntire andJulie Tate

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Summer holidays movie special:Our critics’ picks of the flicks
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Summer holidays movie special:Our critics’ picks of the flicks

Already seen Wicked? Want a film that will please the family? Our reviewers have you covered from Boxing Day and beyond.

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A mysterious woman,a sudden death keep us guessing in Parthenope

A mysterious woman,a sudden death keep us guessing in Parthenope

Paolo Sorrentino was orphaned at 16. His films still grapple with the questions that followed.

  • byStephanie Bunbury
Italian master Paolo Sorrentino’s films feel like deranged ads. His new one is no exception
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Italian master Paolo Sorrentino’s films feel like deranged ads. His new one is no exception

Starring Celeste Dalla Porta and Gary Oldman,Parthenope is an experience you can drift through as the heroine drifts through life,enchanted and sceptical at once.

  • byJake Wilson
Jim Carrey’s showboating double-act can’t save Sonic the Hedgehog 3
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Jim Carrey’s showboating double-act can’t save Sonic the Hedgehog 3

The comedian takes on a second role as Dr Robotnik’s lookalike grandpa,which doubles the number of movie characters he’s played this decade.

  • byJake Wilson
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin collide in not-so-solemn Holocaust pilgrimage
★★★½
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Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin collide in not-so-solemn Holocaust pilgrimage

A Real Pain follows two bickering cousins as they travel to Poland to honour their grandmother.

  • byJake Wilson
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Crazy,stupid love:Anora takes you somewhere quite unexpected
★★★★
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Crazy,stupid love:Anora takes you somewhere quite unexpected

The Cannes Palme d’Or winner about a stripper and her wealthy Russian suitor features a cast so spirited that anything seems possible.

  • bySandra Hall
Cannes award-winner breaks one of screenwriting’s biggest rules – and it works
★★★★
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Cannes award-winner breaks one of screenwriting’s biggest rules – and it works

All We Imagine As Light is a film of two halves,with loneliness and belonging at its centre.

  • bySandra Hall
It has its devotees,but Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton euthanasia drama left me cold
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It has its devotees,but Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton euthanasia drama left me cold

Spanish master director Pedro Almodovar’s English-language feature debut is visually rich but lacking in earthiness.

  • byCraig Mathieson
Robbie Williams as an ape? This biopic is more than monkey business
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Robbie Williams as an ape? This biopic is more than monkey business

Better Man is far more unconventional than Bohemian Rhapsody,but lacks the connective personal tissue that held Rocketman together.

  • byCraig Mathieson
It’s Superdog! Co-star looks to steal the show in new Superman film

It’s Superdog! Co-star looks to steal the show in new Superman film

The highly anticipated reboot of DC Comics’ Superman franchise features the first big-screen appearance of superdog Krypto.

  • byMichael Idato