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Maria Duarte
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Film of the Week / 22 January 2026
22 January 2026

MARIA DUARTE recommends a surreal and brilliant take on corporate lay-offs and their consequences

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Film of the week / 15 January 2026
15 January 2026

MARIA DUARTE recommends that this dramatic reconstruction of one instance of the Israeli killings in Gaza be seen as widely as possible

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Film of the week / 8 January 2026
8 January 2026

MARIA DUARTE recommends a British boxing biopic about the stormy relationship between Nazeem Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle

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Best of 2025 / 22 December 2025
22 December 2025

MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films

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Film of the week / 18 December 2025
18 December 2025

MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama

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Film of the week / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends an intimate portrait of Jacinda Ardern, only the second prime minister to give birth while holding office

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Cinema / 27 November 2025
27 November 2025

MARIA DUARTE reviews Desperate Journey, Blue Moon, Pillion, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

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Film of the Week / 27 November 2025
27 November 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends the remarkable and painful story of the lesbian who put women’s boxing on the map

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Film of the week / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025

MARIA DUARTE ponders the defence this film makes, of charisma and ‘ordinariness,’ that Hollywood uses to dramatise Nazi war criminals

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Cinema / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck

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Film of the Week / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

MARIA DUARTE recommends a brutal drama with an unstable young mother at its heart

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Cinema / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You