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<p>Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘One Battle After Another’</p>

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Why are the stars of this year’s political Oscar faves staying quiet?

‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Bugonia’ and the forthcoming ‘The Secret Agent’ strike overt parallels to modern politics and the ongoing clown show of Donald Trump’s second term. But few have been saying it all out loud on the awards circuit this year, writes Xan Brooks

<p>Laura Dern and Andra Day: ‘Bradley Cooper said: What are we missing? You inform us about these female characters. You help us build them, and this sisterhood’</p>

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Laura Dern: ‘David Lynch saw things in me that I didn’t see in myself’

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Catherine O’Hara made flawed characters not just bearable but beloved

<p>Celebrated documentarian Frederick Wiseman, pictured in 2013</p>

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One of the great American filmmakers is now finally available to watch

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<p>Kristen Stewart at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Chronology of Water’ this month</p>

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Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is pretentious but magnificent

The one-time teen idol has never taken the easy route in her stardom, and her first feature film behind the camera – next month’s ‘The Chronology of Water’ – is an appropriately awkward, non-commercial and impressionistic affair, writes Xan Brooks

<p>Ian McKellen in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’</p>

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How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?

Elon Musk, JD Vance and Giorgia Meloni have all described JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels as fundamental to their respective world views – but it’d be too easy to claim they’ve simply misunderstood the text, writes Xan Brooks