All articles by Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic
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Reviews‘A Good Person’: Review
Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman work to overcome tragedy in Zach Braff’s cloying melodrama
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‘Air’: Review
Director Ben Affleck and star Matt Damon reteam for this appealing look at Nike’s courting of basketball star Michael Jordan
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‘Bottoms’: SXSW Review
Emma Seligman follows up ’Shiva Baby’ with this skewed high school comedy about a female student fight club
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‘Tetris’: SXSW Review
Taron Egerton fights for the right to bring Tetris to the world in Jon S. Baird’s uneven thriller
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‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods’: Review
The adolescent-turned-superhero returns to save another day in Warner Bros’ by-the-numbers sequel
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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’: Review
Keanu Reeves returns as the enigmagic assassin in this flabby fourth instalment of the action franchise
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‘You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder’: SXSW Review
Real-life father and daughter Ewan and Clara McGregor bring poignancy to this gentle character study
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‘Flamin’ Hot’: SXSW Review
Eva Longoria’s biopic of the Hispanic worker who spiced up America’s favourite snacks is blander than its subject deserves
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‘Black Barbie’: SXSW Review
Documentary explores America’s enduring race problem through the eyes of its most famous doll
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‘Cassius X: Becoming Ali’: Glasgow Review
A straighforward documentary portrait which covers the rise to fame of boxing icon Muhammad Ali
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‘Champions’: Review
Woody Harrelson stars as the coach of a disabled basketball team in Bobby Farrelly’s well-meaning, broad-strokes comedy
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‘Punch’: Glasgow Review
Tim Roth stars in this New Zealand-set story about a teenage boxer struggling with his sexuality
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‘Here’: Berlin Review
Two solitary souls find comfort in the natural world in Bas Devos’ Encounters-winning feature
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‘The Klezmer Project’: Berlin Review
Docu-fiction exploring the enduring legacy of Yiddish klezmer music won the first feature award at Berlin
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Features
In conversation: Baz Luhrmann and Austin Butler look back on their wild ride making ‘Elvis’
The pair bonded through an extended casting process, Covid lockdown in Australia, the film’s eventual shoot, and its long aftermath since Cannes last year.
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‘Creed III’: Review
Michael B. Jordan directs and stars in this slick, by-the-book Rocky sequel which hints at more but retreats to formula
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‘Cocaine Bear’: Review
Elizabeth Banks’ real-life tale of a drug-fuelled rampaging bear doesn’t deliver much of a high
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‘Reality’: Berlin Review
Sydney Sweeney stars as real-life American whistleblower Reality Winner in Tina Satter’s claustrophobic drama
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‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’: Review
The third installment in the low-key MCU sidebar amps up the stakes with Jonathan Majors at his villainous best
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‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’: Review
Channing Tatum bows out gracefully in Steven Soderbergh’s muted farewell to the stripper franchise
