ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
Film round-up: September 26, 2024
Decline and fall of the US empire, rehab in Orkney, the younger self, and lone wolves
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews I Am Martin Parr, September Says, The Monkey, and The Gorge
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
PAUL FOLEY recommends an extraordinary double bill that packs a punch and leaves you reeling
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play about AI that results in a deadening disconnect for its audience
SIMON PARSONS applauds an insightful state-of-the-nation play that explores the growing class divide in South Africa
Megalopolis (15)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
★★
ONE of the greatest film-makers of our time, Francis Ford Coppola returns with his most ambitious passion project: a Roman epic, which was at least 40 years in the making, and which proves to be a glorious, baffling mess of visuals and ideas.
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