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The surreal rock opera, which opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a gritty musical examining sex, power and family relations under intense glare of fame

BY Carlos Valladares |

In the group show ‘More Life’ at David Zwirner, the late filmmaker is celebrated for his contributions as a Black gay artist at the height of the AIDS pandemic  

BY Logan Lockner |

In Awoye Timpo’s reimagining of Gunn’s play, a father and son grapple with visions of accomplishment that deny autonomy and identity

BY Beatrice Loayza |

At a time of enforced distancing, Sharon Hayes’s Ricerche: two examines the intimacy of women’s American football teams

BY Maddie Klett |

Brian Dillon on the television programme’s museum of images and memories 

BY Brian Dillon |

Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film about a group of middle-aged men finding happiness through the habitual consumption of alcohol is sentimental and without complexity

BY Kristian Vistrup Madsen |

In his new film, White Cube, the artist – again – perpetuates the very form of exploitation he is criticizing

BY Eric Otieno Sumba |

Curtis’s new BBC series, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, depicts the repetitive bleakness of individualism, but how can we collectively envision an alternative?

BY Amar Ediriwira |

Skaka King's film on the life and assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton exceptionally examines the ever-present interplay between race and capital

BY Ian Bourland |

The artist’s first feature film depicts a mother-daughter pair of grifters trying to stay afloat through financial recession 

BY Travis Diehl |

The subject of retrospective at the London Short Film Festival, Videofreex’s Guerrilla TV tactics preceded the use of citizen-shot footage in contemporary media

BY Juliet Jacques |

Despite a brilliant performance by Carey Mulligan, the post-#MeToo thriller is an anti-climax 

BY Philippa Snow |

The films and books that kept us afloat in a calamitous year

BY Anthony Hawley |

The film proposes Ancient Egypt as something far more alive than its ruins might suggest

 

BY Jennifer Higgie |

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

BY John Menick |

The five-film series is an epic, tender portrait of London’s West Indian community

BY Leila Latif |

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself

BY John Menick |

The filmmaker’s latest documentary, Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue, is an object study of the generations affected by industrialization

BY Anthony Hawley |

Luca Guadagnino’s new HBO series treats identity like an Instagram filter

BY Evan Moffitt |

How Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Ed Webb-Ingall and Ayo Akingbade approach the closure of public space

BY Ryan Kearney |