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‘The greatest Marvel offering in years’

Disney The latest in the superhero franchise “is scrappy, scruffy-looking, down-to-earth fun”, with a “charismatic” Florence Pugh at its centre,

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10 of the best films of 2025 so far

Nicholas Barber and Caryn James Yun Sun Park/ BBC (Credit: Yun Sun Park/ BBC) BBC film critics Caryn James and

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The ultra-violent Shakespeare play that makes audiences faint

Alamy Tragedy Titus Andronicus is the Bard’s goriest work, and a new production is set to be one of the

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How the ‘gangster’ years of the young Joseph Stalin inspired the gritty Star Wars series

Lucasfilm Ltd (Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd) It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but

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Why JMW Turner’s greatest painting is so misunderstood

The National Gallery, London (Credit: The National Gallery, London) As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW

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The men behind the Great Train Robbery

Getty Images Britain in the 1960s was captivated by the daring of the Great Train Robbery, and the sheer scale

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Eulogy is the anthology’s most ‘heartfelt and quietly devastating’ episode ever

Netflix Viewers have been “shattered” by Eulogy, an emotional new episode in the seventh season of Charlie Brooker’s series, starring

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Fur is firmly back in fashion

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) It’s having a moment with celebrities, fashionistas and Gen Z. But wearing any kind of

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Ken Burns on showing the dark parts of US history

Evan Barlow Ken Burns’s upcoming series, The American Revolution, follows works exploring themes including the US and the Holocaust (Credit:

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‘Radically different from any other show’

Apple TV+ Jon Hamm excels in Apple TV+’s “emotionally real but absurdist” drama about a desperate corporate man who resorts