If your brain was replaced with pig’s, would you be human or pig?
… or would you be neither? That’s one of the puzzling questions posed in this intricate Japanese film.
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Anyone with a teenager in their life will sympathise with Nina, a Berlin-based orchestra conductor in this atmospheric German drama. But anyone who has been a teen will feel for Lars.
Swashbuckling adventure from the classics
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Sitcom megastar creates a cereal killer
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A love letter to the world we live in
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Israel PM: ‘We’ve got trouble with the neighbours again’
This film is worth watching because of its relevance to today’s tensions in the Middle East, and for Helen Mirren’s performance.
The real star of The Taste of Things isn’t Juliette Binoche
This in an Epicurean epic about loving food, loving cooking and loving doing so for someone you love. But it wasn’t to my taste.
A sharply comic look at the unravelling of Great Britain
Andrew O’Hagan’s last novel was critic Stephen Romei’s book of the year. How does the new one stack up?
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