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Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Season 2, on Netflix

With the second season of Jessica Jones underway, our arts contributor Sauleha Kamal asks what it takes to be a true superhero in the Marvel universe. (Have your whiskey bottle and leather jacket to hand, as...

Sauleha Kamal

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Film Review

The Square: Darkly Humorous and Humorously Dark

“The art world is hard to satirize” says Ruben Östlund in a promotional interview, as he elucidates the cultural world of his movie, The Square. The recent satire has jumped the pond in its notoriety, and annoyed art-sceners along the way, but...

Liam Holohan

Film Review

Ready Player One: ‘The fantastic, acid-tripping, cosmic rollercoaster of your dreams”

“This is not a film that we’ve made, this is — I promise you — a movie” announced a nervous Steven Spielberg on the SXSW stage last week. Seeing as the two words denote exactly the same thing, this caused a flurry of sardonic amusement over the...

James Witherspoon

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Film Review

You Were Never Really Here: ‘A Heightened Display of Provocation’

In Hollywood’s current climate, action films the likes of Taken and John Wick are a dime a dozen. On the surface, it’s easy to mistake Lynne Ramsay’s latest for another sub-standard shoot-em-up; but it’s so much more...

Awais Irfan

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Film Opinion Review

Diversity at the Oscars

Lilly Zhuang

Film Review

Lady Bird Review

I have a soft spot for coming-of-age films. There’s something cathartic about watching a slightly-too-old-for-the-role actor, not a hint of acne in sight, bear the troubles of the average teenagehood: warts, as the case may be, and all. And they are...

Eamonn Lynch-Bowers