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Maria Duarte
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Cinema / 10 September 2026
10 September 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner

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Film of the Week / 10 September 2026
10 September 2026

MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings

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Cinema / 20 August 2026
20 August 2026
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Cinema / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026

ANGUS REID, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and MARIA DUARTE review Wham! 10 Days in China, Lesvia, Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and The Fires

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Cinema / 9 July 2026
9 July 2026

KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana

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Film of the Week / 25 June 2026
25 June 2026

MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster

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Cinema / 18 June 2026
18 June 2026

MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5

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Film of the week / 11 June 2026
11 June 2026

MARIA DUARTE defends a solid, late-career Spielberg conspiracy flick that calls for empathy in a hostile world

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Film of the week / 28 May 2026
28 May 2026

MARIA DUARTE recommends a truly immersive crime thriller that explores the consequences of creative paralysis

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Film of the week / 9 April 2026
9 April 2026

MARIA DUARTE relishes the outrageous true story of two working-class lads from Dundee who conned the music industry

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Film of the week / 2 April 2026
2 April 2026

MARIA DUARTE refuses to disclose the twist by which a conventional rom-com is undone by a universal US malaise

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Film of the week / 5 February 2026
5 February 2026

MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons

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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