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The Star Wars cut George Lucas didn’t want you to see – and the battle to bring it back
In 1997, the director gave his blockbuster a Disney-fied digital makeover – erasing the celluloid original from history. Until now
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Why Hollywood owes so much to Hitler’s favourite film-maker
Much of her work was Nazi propaganda, yet nevertheless Leni Riefenstahl has influenced everyone from George Lucas to Francis Ford Coppola
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Sinners: Michael B Jordan’s wild Southern Gothic horror is an utterly thrilling oddity
Crammed with proper movie-star performances, this genre-bending film from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is an absolute riot
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One to One: John & Yoko –A casually dazzling, offbeat portrait of Lennon and Ono
Kevin Macdonald’s frenzied documentary about the couple’s charity gigs plunges viewers into the cultural moment of New York in the 1970s
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Holland: Nicole Kidman’s twisty thriller is stylish – but you wish it would go a bit madder
It’s no match for Rear Window or Fargo, yet this playful, suspenseful mystery at least has a go at ploughing the same alluring furrows
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Five hours and 26 actors? Marvel’s exhausting Avengers ‘reveal’ spells Doomsday for the MCU
The superhero studio trolled its fans with a bizarre, punishingly boring cast announcement. Do they have any surprises left?
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The End: A satirical post-apocalyptic musical? It’s almost as insufferable as it sounds
Joshua Oppenheimer’s flick intrigues for the first half-hour but then leaves you feeling almost as trapped as its characters
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Flow: this quietly transportive Oscar winner is a skin-prickling wonder
With a gentle sense of post-apocalyptic mystery, this animation sets a raft of animals adrift in a flooded, Ghibli-esque world
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Disney’s Snow White: Not too woke – and better than Wicked
It’s been been plagued by controversy – but there’s no real subversion or ‘girl-bossing’ for the sake of it in Disney’s live-action remake
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Ne Zha 2 is the most successful animated film ever made – and I’ve absolutely no idea why
This Chinese fantasy has made more than $2 billion in its homeland. To these Western eyes, its appeal is utterly lost in translation
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Netflix’s reviled robot film cost $320 million – and it’s still better value than Harry and Meghan
Both cost vast sums and have been savaged by critics. But only Millie Bobby Brown’s Electric State is worth the investment
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The Electric State: Millie Bobby Brown’s Netflix sci-fi romp should be seen on a house-sized screen
The Stranger Things star, Chris Pratt and the Russo Brothers have made a Spielbergian treat – what a shame it’s only on Netflix
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Black Bag: Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender are deliciously cast in this glossy spy thriller
Amid Amazon’s Bond takeover, what a pleasure it is to see the other British spy movie tradition back in such rude – and stylish – health
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Last Breath, review: Proof that a miraculous true story is no guarantee of a good film
This dramatisation of a real-life, near-death underwater incident from 2012 lacks almost everything that drama needs
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Henry Cavill as James Bond? The fake trailer creators trolling Hollywood
YouTube is full of teasers for Christopher Nolan, Marvel and Bond films that don’t exist – and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real
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Mickey 17: Robert Pattinson is a hangdog delight in this enjoyably mad sci-fi confection
The latest project from Bong Joon-ho, director of Parasite, satirises the bleak religification of 21st-century corporate identity
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