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Kids at 30: controversial Nineties movie still holds power to disgust
Audiences, critics and politicians the world over were horrified by Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s dramatisation of wayward Manhattan youth. Three decades on, writes Adam White, its provocations remain jolting – and desperate
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How Batman Begins made a giant of Christopher Nolan and changed cinema
Twenty years on from the landmark blockbuster, starring Christian Bale as the Dark Knight, there’s no understating its influence. Louis Chilton looks at the making and legacy of a superhero film quite like none before it
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Stanley Kubrick’s biggest folly is actually his ultimate masterpiece
Critically lambasted on its release, and so commercially unsuccessful that the filmmaker signed onto ‘The Shining’ for an easy box-office win, 1975’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ has only been embraced – then even more embraced – in the decades since. As it arrives back in cinemas, Xan Brooks salutes an often misunderstood classic
Reviews
M3GAN 2.0 is a hyper-camp mashup of T2 and Mission: Impossible
The horror genre might have just found its new icon thanks to this dumb, funny sequel, which contains the gag of the summer
