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MARIA DUARTE is left in high spirits by a film that charts an extraordinary case of the poor beating the rich at their own game
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CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
Dumb Money (15)
Directed by Craig Gillespie
BASED on the insane true story of how ordinary people turned the tables on Wall Street during the pandemic by making a packet as they transformed GameStop — the video game retailer — into a hot stock investment phenomenon.
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