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Public Enemies, Michael Mann, 140 mins, (15)

Johnny Depp underacts and Christian Bale lacks charisma in the much-hyped 1930s gangster biopic

Album: Florence & the Machine, Lungs, (Island)

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After decades in LA David Hockney returns to his roots and goes on a northern landscape-painting frenzy

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