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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
Inside Film
How Batman Begins made a giant of Christopher Nolan and changed cinema
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
The back-to-basics Jurassic World Rebirth saves a dying franchise
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali, this revival rescues a long-in-the-tooth series that – when led by Chris Pratt – had spun wildly out of control
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
