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Not in Front of the Children
Thomas Vinterberg's chilling new movie questions our assumptions about youthful innocence
Peter Whittle
Film
This Cause Is Not Worth Serving
Great acting cannot save Paul Thomas Anderson's ponderous new Scientology movie,
The Master
Peter Whittle
Film
All Pout and No Clout
Joe Wright's Karenina is well-scripted but too stagey and his Anna lacks depth
Peter Whittle
Film
Hitchcock’s Vertiginous Rise
Vertigo
is now the "Greatest Film Of All Time". Like
Citizen Kane
, it excites more admiration than love
Peter Whittle
Film
Twilight of the Teen Idol
In
Cosmopolis
, Robert Pattinson is aiming for mainstream leading man territory
Peter Whittle
Film
Haven’t We Seen This One Before?
Tim Burton serves up the same old tosh, but Sacha Baron Cohen still skewers dictators and liberals
Peter Whittle
Film
Hollywood in Distress
Can you remember when you last heard a cinema audience laugh together at the same joke?
Peter Whittle
Film
The Marigold’s Hardy Perennials
John Madden’s cinematic saga of late-life self-discovery in India is rightly a popular triumph
Peter Whittle
Film
Grief Tied Up in Narrative Bows
The arts have failed to respond adequately to 9/11. Stephen Daldry’s new film is no exception
Peter Whittle
Film
Underrated: Claude Lanzmann
The great French film director's magnum opus,
Shoah
, brought home the reality of the Holocaust
Frederic Raphael
Film
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board