Is Agra the most shocking Indian film ever made?
However the rise of digital technology in the 21st Century, resulting in filmmaking becoming cheaper, has led to a revival ...
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How book banning escalated in the US
"What gives me hope," Johnson tells BBC Culture, "is that the majority of the country is against book bans. The ...
From Succession to hit book Pineapple Street: stories of the super-rich
"I'm 43, on the edge of Generation X and Millennial, and my attitude has always been: money seems cool, I ...
The 100 greatest children’s books of all time
Over the years, BBC Culture has conducted major polls of film and TV critics, experts and industry figures from around ...
The Little Mermaid review: A fairytale ‘for the age of Marvel movies’
There is logic to the breakdown of live action and animation here. Even half-humans are played by actors while everyone ...
Killers of the Flower Moon review: Scorsese’s handsome Western is ‘too slow’
Other alternative protagonists keep drifting into view. The film is adapted from David Grann's book, which is subtitled "The Osage ...
The Zone of Interest review from Cannes: Five stars for Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust ‘masterpiece’
Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) is showing her mother around her garden in the sunshine. Three years earlier, it was just a ...
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review: ‘Gloomy and depressing’ final act
Besides, everything is smaller and cheaper than it was in the original trilogy. Indy up against the military might of ...
Monster review: ‘A marvel’ and ‘bittersweet’
Is there anyone in world cinema quite like Hirokazu Kore-eda? Year after year, the Japanese writer-director keeps making wry, humane, ...
Jeanne du Barry review: ‘Johnny Depp is subdued to the point where he’s barely conscious’
Johnny Depp used to be Hollywood royalty: if he wasn't quite the king of the US film industry, he was ...