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Film round-up: September 26, 2024
Decline and fall of the US empire, rehab in Orkney, the younger self, and lone wolves
(L) Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun; (R) Shia LaBeouf in Megalopolis
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MICHAEL STEWART applauds a fun send-up of the substandard Agatha Christie whodunnit
LEO BOIX reviews a novella by Brazilian Ana Paula Maia, and poetry by Peruvian Giancarlo Huapaya, and Chilean Elvira Hernandez
BRENT CUTLER unpicks the cryptic clues of a book within a book within a murder mystery
Reviews of the Neil Charles Quartet, the Freddie Hubbard Quintet, and the Olie Brice Quartet
GLENN BURGESS suggests that, despite his record in Spain, Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution underpins his late novels
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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