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<p>An extreme close-up of Telly and a 12-year-old girl making out, mouths grimly colliding, opens the film</p>
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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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<p>Bat’s enough out of you: Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy in ‘Batman Begins’</p>
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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
<p>Misunderstood: Ryan O’Neal in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’</p>
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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

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<p>Jonathan Bailey and Scarlett Johansson in ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’</p>

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

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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

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