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Bad Trip official trailer
Bad Trip stars Eric Andre, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish and Michaela Conlin.
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★½
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Even Michael Caine can’t save ‘totally ridiculous’ update of Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist has been turned into an “extreme graffiti artist” in this modern-day take on Dickens’ classic novel.
- by Jake Wilson
Oscars 2021 Best Picture nominations
Snippets from the eight films nominated for Best Picture at the 2021 Academy Awards.
Trailer: Sound of Metal
A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into free-fall when he begins to lose his hearing.
Trailer: Nomadland
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
★★★★½
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Like a Bourne movie about the real world, Khashoggi murder doco is ‘astonishing’
The Dissident is about much more than who killed the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. We already know that.
- by Paul Byrnes
★★
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Violent, confused and dull
Mortal Kombat should satisfy true fans with its hyper-violence but for the rest of us it’s a bit boring.
- by Jake Wilson
Trailer: Mank
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz as he races to finish "Citizen Kane."
★★★★
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New Billie Holiday biopic shows a hard life that bore Strange Fruit
There’s plenty of grit along with the glamour in this clear-eyed look at the life, loves and persecution of jazz star Billie Holiday.
- by Sandra Hall
Trailer: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Based on the infamous 1969 trial of seven defendants charged by the US federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the countercultural protests in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Trailer: Minari
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream.