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Review: King Lear

With its assured direction, engaging visuals, and featuring a murderers' row of British actors, the latest telling of Shakespeare's King...

The year is 1962, the setting a Georgian hotel beside Dorset's Chesil Beach. Post-war repression has yet to fully bloom into the sexual...

Kingsman: The Golden Circle makes no bones about its intentions to be a bigger, louder, more frenetic, and even more absurd sequel to the...

"The last word always belongs to the mountain." Indeed, the mighty Everest can offer both triumph and tragedy for those who attempt to...

A Royal Night Out takes the anecdote that the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret joined the VE Day festivities and expands it to suppose...

Testament of Youth opens with Alicia Vikander's face as her inscrutable gaze observes those around her. Hers is an almost inconceivable...

A scarecrow of a fellow sporting thick-rimmed glasses, Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) is a graduate student at Cambridge well-liked by...

Dido Elizabeth Belle. Not much is known about this 18th century noblewoman, who may have inspired the abolition of slavery in England....

Chris Lloyd (Christian Bale) is living the perfect life: a house in the suburbs, a well-paying job, a beautiful toddler, and an equally...