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★★☆☆☆ British star Nicholas Hoult hasn’t had much luck with the future this year so far. In Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) he played a mutant road rodent with a suicidal hankering for death via automobile. Nothing could be further […]
★★☆☆☆ Following his Oscar-winning turn as Stephen Hawking in James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything (2014), British actor Eddie Redmayne makes his bow on the Venice Lido in Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl (2015), complete with another transformative portrayal – […]
★★★★★ Part of the Orizzonti sidebar at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, actor Brady Corbet’s debut feature The Childhood of a Leader (2015) combines an Ibsen-like austere family drama with a cinematic verve that’s been sadly lacking on the Lido […]