ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism, The Lost Bus, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and Happyend
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MARTIN HALL admires a remarkable film that concentrates on the human impact of gender dysphoria
Sofia Otero in 20,000 Species of Bees, a role for which he became the first child actor to win Berlin's Silver Bear
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MARY CONWAY relishes the spectacle of a domestic implosion in a setting strangely divorced from any social, political or cultural context
SUSAN DARLINGTON appreciates a retelling of the Merlin myth that emphasises family and belonging
JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual
TONY BURKE reviews new releases from Cheikh Lo, Mishra & Deepa Shakthi, N’Faly Kouyate
Gin Lane by William Hogarth is a critique of 18th-century London’s growing funeral trade, posits DAN O’BRIEN
ANDY HEDGECOCK sees his scepticism lessened by a story is more complex and far-reaching than is initially apparent
20,000 Species of Bees (12A)
Directed by Urresola Solaguren
THIS is an impressive debut from Urresola Solguren.
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