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Fri 29 May 2026

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A girl’s best friend

Marilyn Monroe remembered by her closest confidants

Hollywood legends look back on their friendships with a woman who, underneath the studio sheen, was warm, supportive and empathetic
Russell and Monroe looking surprised, drinks in hand, heavily made up and glamorous
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Picks of the week

Green Goblin in metallic green armor with a snarling mask holds a weapon while crouching dramatically
quote  Nicolas Cage as the Green Goblin? It will always be one of Hollywood’s great might-have-beens
Ben Child
A still from Ask E Jean
E Jean Carroll on life post-Trump
‘The avalanche of slime has been unbelievable’
Lucrecia Martel standing in a doorway wearing dark clothes and sunglasses and holding a walking stick
Landmarks
‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’
One woman and three men sit around a table looking delighted as a child in a headdress and glittery eye makeup blows out candles on a cake.
Fairyland
‘Not many kids had gay dads who died of Aids’
Harpo Marx in a tall hat holds a small pig and smiles at the camera
Harpo speaks!
New recordings reveal mute Marx brother chatting with audience
Danny on his trike with the twins at the end of the corridor
Ranked!
The 20 best corridors in film
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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

Backrooms

Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook

★★★★★
Directorial debut examines memory, reality and fear after Chiwetel Ejiofor accesses an infinite series of hidden rooms that all feel creepily askew
Chiwetel Ejiofor in a brown shirt stands in a doorway looking at a sparse yellow-lit room
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This week's reviews

Power BalladPaul Rudd as Rick and Nick Jonas as Danny in Power Ballad. Photo Credit: David Cleary
Power Ballad
A terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal
★★★★☆
A sports team in green jerseys huddles together with arms around each other, colourful buildings visible behind
No Place for Football
Battling ice and snow to play the beautiful game in Greenland
★★★☆☆
No Winter Holidays
No Winter Holidays
Haunting portrait of female companionship in Nepal’s frozen highlands
★★★☆☆
Two young men smile and take a selfie at a birthday celebration with cake and candles
We’re Nothing at All
Bus explosion sets off a drama of grief, prejudice and queer identity
★★☆☆☆
Derek Jacobi and Ellie Bamber in Moss and Freud.
Moss & Freud
Kate meets Lucian and they get on brilliantly
★★☆☆☆
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We recommend

The Class

Miraculously humanist and unobtrusively authentic study of kids in school

★★★★★
Based on François Bégaudeau’s autobiographical novel, this film avoids all the genre cliches
The Class - Entre les murs
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