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Support the Guardian Support us   Fund independent journalism with £5 per month Spotlight The Guardian's Oscar hustings 2024   Our writers debate who should pick up the best picture Academy Award Guardian staff cheerlead for their favourite from the nominees Picks of the week How we made Lone Star   ‘I recently went back to the Texas border – and urinated on the wall’ Suffering for her tart   How Emma Stone ate 60 Portuguese custard pastries for Poor Things Stuart Heritage The nepo baby who made good   Rob Reiner on Trump, family – and his brilliant, beloved movies ‘What a load of filth!’   The best Saltburn TikToks reviewed Stephen Fry   ‘I was never cute – I’ve got better looking as I’ve got older’ Sex, lies and sundowners   Robin Campillo on turning his army brat childhood into a film Peter Bradshaw's film of the week Red Island review   Beauty and colonialism in a French childhood in Madagascar This visually exquisite, tender film about a boy growing up in a military air base on an former colony is a wonderful watch This week's reviews Combat Wombat: Double Trouble review   Evil tech genius takes over pre-schoolers cartoon Theatre of Violence review   Questions of culpability as Lord’s Resistance Army killer comes to trial Dune: Part Two review   Second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle Four Daughters review   Fact and fiction mix in mother’s heartbreak over Islamic State Boylesque review   Tender portrait of drag artist who refuses to grow old gracefully We recommend Son of Saul review   A stunning, excoriating Holocaust drama László Nemes’s debut, about a prisoner at Auschwitz forced to work in the gas chambers, dramatises the concentration camps with great intelligence, seriousness and audacity Get in touch If you have any questions or comments about any of our newsletters please email newsletters@theguardian.com Manage your emails | Unsubscribe | Trouble viewing? You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to Film Today. Guardian News & Media Limited - a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU. Registered in England No. 908396