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<p>Gloria Swanson as the faded movie star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s ‘Sunset Boulevard’</p>

Inside Film

Hollywood is poison – and 75 years ago Sunset Boulevard exposed it all

Seventy-five years after its release, Billy Wilder’s melodramatic satire on celebrity culture and faded stardom – starring Gloria Swanson as its grotesque heroine – retains its tragic grandeur, writes Xan Brooks

<p>‘I’m as actory as they get’: Billy Crudup was amused by the idea of playing a Method actor in ‘Jay Kelly’</p>

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Billy Crudup: ‘America is becoming an increasingly lawless community’

<p>‘It’s like we’re walking around as a kind of Frankenstein of different tweets. It’s this poisonous, internet-bred irony that’s very stunting’</p>

Interview

Search Party’s John Early: ‘We don’t have thinkers. We have memes’

'Should I become one of these people sitting and complaining about how difficult things have become? Or should I rather try and find a way? In the end, I decided to do whatever it took to keep working'

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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to jail after this interview

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<p>The AI critic is an irksome presence, flooding the zone with his mediocre critiques, constantly trawling for clicks and likes</p>

Inside Film

Film critics are great because they’re flawed. AI critics are nothing

Artificial intelligence has given rise to a new breed of movie pundit – one that gloms onto consensus opinion and regurgitates rote praise. Xan Brooks looks out at this new frontier of film criticism and despairs

<p>And starring as himself: George Clooney is Jay Kelly in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Jay Kelly’</p>

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George Clooney basically plays himself in Jay Kelly, and it’s wildly unconvincing

Noah Baumbach’s new comedy drama ‘Jay Kelly’ casts Clooney as a wealthy, handsome, pampered and indulged A-lister, and like many films in which fake stars opine about the miseries of celebrity, it quickly wears out its welcome, writes Xan Brooks