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Xan Brooks

Xan Brooks is a freelance writer and broadcaster specialising in cinema

September 2024

  • Underwater view of reef

    Book of the day
    Playground by Richard Powers review – the wonder of the oceans

  • Closing Ceremony - 81st Venice Film Festival<br>epa11592227 Spanish director and screenwriter Pedro Almodovar holds the Golden Lion award for his movie 'The Room Next Door' during the closing ceremony of the 81st annual Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, 07 September 2024. EPA/ETTORE FERRARI

    Venice 2024: Almodóvar’s first major festival win is richly deserved – and epically overdue

    Xan Brooks
  • ‘No one is going to fund us’ … Stephen (left) and Timothy Quay, with the set for their short film This Unnameable Little Broom.

    ‘We never went down the Aardman route’: how the Brothers Quay rocked the animation world

  • Julianne Moore, right, and Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

    The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar spins a gorgeous, fragile tale of life and death

  • Wolfs review – Pitt and Clooney are job-sharing loners in Spidey-meme of a thriller

  • I’m Still Here review – loving family negotiates the horror of Brazil’s military rule

  • From Darkness to Light review – Jerry Lewis’ infamous Holocaust film rescued from oblivion

August 2024

  • Campo di Battaglia film still Venice film festival

    Campo di Battaglia review – medicos face off in stately first world war hospital drama

  • And Their Children After Them film still Venice film festival

    And Their Children After Them review – racism and revenge festers in smalltown France

  • Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl.

    Babygirl review – Nicole Kidman overwhelmed by lust as CEO having torrid and toxic affair

  • John Lennon and Yoko Ono from One to One: John &amp; Yoko.

    One to One: John & Yoko review – fun, fierce, full-blooded portrait of Lennon and Ono

  • Kill the Jockey review – a mercurial, skittish crime drama whose hero is a drug-fuelled rogue

  • Maria review – Angelina Jolie plays the diva in magnificent stroll around the cult of Callas

  • Riefenstahl review – deep-dive study takes down the Nazis’ favourite director

  • Separated review – Errol Morris’s quietly furious takedown of Trump’s inhumane border policy

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton sequel takes retro joyride through old haunts

  • ‘January 6 was just the warm-up’: the film that tracks three Maga extremists storming the Capitol

June 2024

  • Jesse Plemons

    ‘I don’t want to take these characters home’: Jesse Plemons on life playing the psychopath next door

  • Dunne: ‘I tapped right back into my vengeful side.’

    ‘I’ll never forgive or forget’ – Griffin Dunne on the darkness that overtook his gilded Hollywood upbringing

May 2024

  • Demi Moore on the "The Substance" Red Carpet at Cannes, with extraordinary dress

    Cannes 2024 week two roundup – scuffles, screwballs and spellbinders

    While there’s no out-and-out masterpiece this year, and at times more fun to be had watching the audience fighting, Sean Baker’s acid class comedy, Jacques Audiard’s drug-lord musical and India’s first Palme d’Or contender in decades are knockouts
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