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Boxing Day TV: oh yes it does! The Masked Singer goes full panto

A Christmas special of the most berserk singing show on screen. Plus: Helen Mirren pops into The Repair Shop. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘He’s a son of a bitch – but he’s usually right’: why did Seymour Hersh quit the film about his earth-shattering exposés?

He is the prickly, hotheaded journalist who uncovered the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and torture at Abu Ghraib prison. Finishing Cover-Up, a film about his astonishing life and countless scoops, was never going to be easy

The Guardian - UK

5 of this year’s best Netflix movies aren't out yet, but I've seen them – here’s when you can stream them

Five of this year's best Netflix movies are still to come, from Knives Out 3 to Frankenstein

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Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism

The acclaimed documentarian follows up All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with another smart and impeccably structured winner

The Guardian - US

Trump Can Take Revenge on the 'Deep State': Pardon Snowden

Why Edward Snowden deserves not only a presidential pardon, but a hero's welcome home.

Reason

Tired of festive films? Here's 5 privacy documentaries to twist your mind instead

It’s been another big year for digital privacy – and what better way to cap it off than with some documentaries? Here’s my round-up of must-see titles.

TechRadar

Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 9 – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Laura Poitras’s powerful documentary follows artist Nan Goldin on a successful crusade to publicise America’s opioids crisis

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Venice Film Festival round-up: From Yorgos Lanthimos standout Poor Things to Michael Mann’s operatic Ferrari

Festivalgoers will surely agree that the 2023 competition was one of the most eclectic and eccentric in recent memory, writes Geoffrey Macnab

The Independent UK

Venice film festival roundup – Adam Driver’s Ferrari roars in to soup up a subpar opening week

A ponderous Italian wartime drama and Pablo Larraín’s one-joke General Pinochet satire threatened to sink the actors’ strike-hit 80th Venice film festival – until Michael Mann’s racing thriller hit the gas

The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival: T-shirts replace red carpet glitz as striking stars lie low

Support for the Hollywood strikes is evident as festival hopes its strong line-up makes up for lack of glamour

The Guardian - UK

Venice Film Festival unveils A-list lineup with ‘Priscilla,’ ‘Ferrari,’ ‘Maestro’ amid strikes

Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein drama “Maestro,” Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley movie, Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” will be making their world debuts at the Venice International Film Festival this fall

The Independent UK

The best films of 2023 so far

Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date

The Guardian - UK

Aliens, activists and art: the five best films added to US streaming this week

Highlights include Jordan Peele’s thriller Nope, the prescient abortion drama Call Jane and Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

The Guardian - US

Our pick of 10 of the best documentaries by women to watch on International Women’s Day

From films covering subjects that range from families to war, these extraordinary documentaries will inspire and illuminate

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The Guardian - UK

I’ve seen how overdose wrecks lives – why have the Sackler family members behind OxyContin avoided all charges?

I filmed as activists held Purdue Pharma’s owners to account. Yet the US government has utterly failed to play its part, says film-maker Laura Poitras

Asharq Al-Awsat

Before Oscars, ‘Everything Everywhere’ Sweeps Spirit Awards

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" continued its awards sweep at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on its path to the Oscars next weekend. The multiverse-hopping adventure collected awards for best picture, directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, actors Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, screenplay and editing. "Thank…

The Independent UK

Before Oscars, ‘Everything Everywhere’ sweeps Spirit Awards

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” continued its awards sweep at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on its path to the Oscars next weekend

The Independent UK

Nan Goldin is going to the Oscars, and she wants to win

It’s not always emphasized given that she’s one of the most groundbreaking still photographers of the past 50 years

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The Independent UK

Oscar Predictions: Will 'Everything' take everything?

The 95th Academy Awards are nearly here, and Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr predict a big haul for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

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'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' chronicles Nan Goldin's career of art and activism

Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Goldin discuss their Oscar-nominated documentary about efforts to remove the Sackler family name from prominent museums amid the opioid epidemic.

Evening Standard

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed director Laura Poitras: “Nan Goldin is doing great things in a dark time”

The film follows the artist and activist in her campaign against the Sackler family and the opioid crisis

The Guardian - UK

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review – Nan Goldin’s gripping takedown of the Sackler pharma family

Laura Poitras’s Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles the artist’s crusade against the philanthropic US billionaires fuelling of the opioid crisis

Evening Standard

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review: Nan Goldin documentary will leave you emotionally wrecked

The film weaves the artist’s fight with the Sackler family over the opioid crisis with her own tragic backstory

The Guardian - UK

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review – Nan Goldin takes on big pharma

Documentary follows Goldin, the artist who became addicted to OxyContin, as she confronts the wealthy art patrons who profited from its sale

Los Angeles Times

Oscars 2023: 10 women directors deserving attention

Shortly after the Golden Globes nominations were announced earlier this month, the advocacy group Women in Film took to social media, decrying the "shocking" omission of critically acclaimed female directors, citing Sarah Polley ("Women Talking"), Gina Prince-Bythewood ("The Woman King"), Chinonye Chukwu ("Till") and Maria Schrader ("She Said").

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