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10 of the best films to watch in March

Alamy 9. Project Hail Mary If you fancy a deeply researched story of a scientist stuck on his own in

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The darkness behind British artist LS Lowry’s famous city scenes

The ‘matchstick men’ association Lowry hid behind a down-to-earth facade, but this unpretentious attitude may have led some to dismiss

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11 of the Winter Olympics’ most striking images

7. Mass and motion Getty Images Transformed by a photographer’s lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated

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Amy Adams is Oscar-worthy in this fearless drama about alcoholism ★★★★☆

The actress makes a return to form in this hard-hitting film from Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó about a middle-aged woman

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How America’s Next Top Model became a TV horror show

Looking back on it with a 2025 lens It will be interesting to see how the perception of the show

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The true story of Japan’s mysterious samurai

Their playbook for statecraft was based on Chinese philosophy, principally the ideas of Confucius. “In Neo-Confucian thought,” says Buckland, “you

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The painful scene that really makes Taxi Driver a classic

Notable for its moments of shocking violence and its avant-garde visual approach, Taxi Driver is brimming with memorable scenes beyond

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Why Vigil, a wacky, ‘climate change Christmas Carol’ is dividing readers

Yet he is painfully aware that this is “an impossible way to live”, an “idiot compassion” that eliminates personal responsibility

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The policeman who inspired Al Pacino’s Serpico

More than just a few bad apples Serpico, partially deafened in one ear by the shooting, testified in the inquiry

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10 of the best films to watch this February

Universal Pictures 9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert When Baz Luhrmann was researching his Elvis biopic, he unearthed dozens of