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<p>Tom Cruise carries a terrified Dakota Fanning in Steven Spielberg’s ‘War of the Worlds’</p>
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How War of the Worlds became Spielberg’s most controversial movie

Arriving four years after the attack on the Twin Towers, Spielberg’s loose adaptation of the HG Wells classic – which turned 20 this week – utilised 9/11 imagery and a very era-specific sense of American panic to tell the story of an alien invasion. Many championed it. Others found it tasteless, writes Al Horner

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<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, 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
<p>Bat’s enough out of you: Christian Bale and Cillian Murphy in ‘Batman Begins’</p>
Inside Film

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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