Review of the Week: Rose of Nevada
Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin’s drama about ghost ships and gentrification, all shot on 16mm film, is eerie, disorienting and his most audience-pleasing film to date, writes Ellen E Jones
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Director François Ozon: 'In France, we consider cinema as an art. I'm not sure in England it's the same'
The French film-maker, whose new movie, The Stranger, is out next week, talks to Ellen E Jones about stars, politics, Camus and the Cure
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Review of the Week: How To Make a Killing
John Patton Ford's remake of the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets updates the old film for the oligarch era with leading man Glen Powell and some deserving 21st-century victims, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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Mills & Boon meets TikTok: as literary adaptations go, this Wuthering Heights is a bit clueless
The problem with Emerald Fennell’s adaptation is not the mad casting or that it’s unfaithful to the novel; it’s that it isn’t true to the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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Review of the Week: My Father’s Shadow
British-Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr's acclaimed debut about an estranged father spending a busy day in Lagos with his sons, is a radiant and moving film about parents and children everywhere, writes Ellen E Jones
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Review of the Week: Hamnet
Chloé Zhao’s Bard drama with its powerhouse lead performance from Jessie Buckley is hotly tipped for success. But is it just a deluxe version of Shakespeare in Love? writes Ellen E Jones
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Review of the Week: Marty Supreme
Timothée Chalamet’s propulsive energy lights up Josh Safdie’s new film about a table tennis hustler who’s on his way to the top, writes Ellen E Jones
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Review of the Week: It Was Just an Accident
The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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Is the current generation of leading men our best ever?
No longer dreaming of playing Bond, today’s group of young British and Irish actors are fun, reflective and helping to redefine masculinity. I'm all for it, says Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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Review of the week: Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay’s film, featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence as an isolated young mother losing her mind, is about much more than hormones and ‘mom guilt’, writes Ellen E Jones
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