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Monday, Jul 1

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MaXXXine review – it kinda suxxx

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Mia Goth’s porn starlet cleans up her CV with a bloody vengeance in this underwhelming and overreaching horror threequel.

Friday, Jun 28

17

Margaret Qualley and Mamadou Athie: ‘A Yorgos film is much more dreamy and surreal when you’re in it’

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Two relative newcomers to Team Lanthimos reflect on learning to trust the process.

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Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau: ‘The meaning comes in the doing’

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Willem Dafoe and Hong Chau lay out the particulars of Yorgos Lanthimos’s method with actors.

Thursday, Jun 27

17

A Quiet Place: Day One review – cat’s entertainment

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A feline steals the show in Michael Sarnowski's serviceable entry into the sound-focused horror franchise.

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Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons: ‘Is Yorgos okay with us giving away the secrets?’

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Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons attempt to decipher the codes and meanings in Kinds of Kindness.

13

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 review – Kevin Costner’s blood, sweat and tears

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In the first half of his epic passion project, Kevin Costner charts a cost across the vast expanse of the American west.

Wednesday, Jun 26

16

Bye Bye Tiberias review – gets under your skin and stays there

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Lina Soualem’s poignant new documentary traces the stories of four generations of Palestinian women in her family.

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Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou: ‘It’s a constant relationship’

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The co-writers of Kinds of Kindness reflect on their enduring partnership and putting their characters through the ringer.

Monday, Jun 24

19

Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

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Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

Friday, Jun 21

13

Shopping ’til you drop: Paul W.S. Anderson’s anarchic debut at 30

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Three decades on from its release, this 90s thriller echoes the disenfranchisement of young people and sensationalisation of shoplifting.

Thursday, Jun 20

15

What to watch at home in June

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A maligned VR pioneer, a Powell and Pressburger gem and an Italian football thriller are headed for home ents this month.

Wednesday, Jun 19

13

Green Border review – brilliant and tense

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A stirring depiction of the refugee situation in Europe, as Syrians fleeing war face harrowing interrogation at the Polish-Belarusian border.

Tuesday, Jun 18

14

Something in the Water review – not likely to make a splash

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A bridal party find themselves sharing the ocean with an aquatic killer in Hayley Easton Street's shark thriller.

Monday, Jun 17

17

The Bikeriders review – a slow but enveloping saga

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Jeff Nichols' drama based on Danny Lyon’s photobook about a 1960s Chicago motorcycle gang finally cruises into cinemas.

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Jeff Nichols: ‘It’s a very intoxicating thing, riding on a bike’

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After getting his motorcycle license and pondering the story for two decade, the director of The Bikeriders explains what drew him to Danny Lyon's iconic photobook documenting the lives of a 1960s motorcycle gang.

Friday, Jun 14

14

The possibilities (and problems) of Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional

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A state-funded cinema and archive, the Cineteca Nacional is a beautiful example of a public arts space – but is it for the few, rather than the many?

13

Inside Out 2 review – earnest but unambitious

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New emotions arise in Kelsey Mann's charming sequel to Pixar's 2015 hit about the internal machinations of an American tweenager.

‘It was hard to hit me in the face with the steak’ – Jon Heder on 20 years of Napoleon Dynamite

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Two decades on from an unlikely cultural phenomenon, the star of Jarred Hess's lo-fi cult classic talks Moon Boots, Jamiroquai and doing his own stunts.

Sorcery – A witch trial movie with a magical-realist twist

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Christopher Murray directs and stars in this intriguing and original drama about an 1880s Chilean trial for witchcraft.

Thursday, Jun 13

Hounds – This contrived crime story outstays its welcome

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Two bumbling hoods in Casablanca are charged with disposing of a corpse in Kamal Lazraq’s disappointing thriller.

12

At the Dream Emulator Film Club, the boundaries between video games and cinema no longer exist

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Meeting monthly at Dalston's Rio Cinema, this new project shows experimental visual art that defies classical categorisation.

Wednesday, Jun 12

14

Àma Gloria – Gorgeous domestic drama on the meaning of parenthood

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Marie Amachoukeli’s second film is a triumph of political and emotional sensitivity in its depiction of a young girl and her nanny.

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Iain Softley: ‘I had this idea in my mind, “What would the story be if these weren’t The Beatles?”’

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As Sam Mendes gears up to make his behemoth Beatles biopic, the director of 1994 early-Beatles drama Backbeat reflects on the story of Stuart Sutcliffe – the Beatle who wasn't.

Monday, Jun 10

19

Sasquatch Sunset – Gross-out larks with an anthropological twist

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A family of mythical beasts are observed in their natural habitat in comic portrait of animals and their instincts.

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One Life and British cinema’s nostalgia for World War Two

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The past is undeniably present in contemporary representations of the British war effort, representing an obsession with former military glory and world influence.

14

Under the Cover: Tom Humberstone

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We go behind the scenes on the cover of LWLies 103: The Kinds of Kindness Issue with comic artist and illustrator Tom Humberstone.

Friday, Jun 7

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Here – A gorgeous study of fragile human bonds

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A delicate study of human interaction in a space where the urban and the natural collide from director Bas Devos.

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Riddle of Fire review – whimsical and imaginative child’s play

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Three precocious kids set out on a quest for blueberry pie in Weston Razooli's throwback adventure film.

Thursday, Jun 6

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LWLies 103: The Kinds of Kindness issue – Out now!

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Yorgos Lanthimos is up to his old tricks with this delightfully mean allegorical anthology.

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Jane Schoenbrun: ‘I think of film as a medium that is going to disappear eventually’

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The filmmaker reflects on her sophomore feature film, I Saw the TV Glow, in which two teenage outsiders find comfort in a mysterious television series.