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Fri 9 Oct 2026

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Wild Horse Nine

‘Old-timey fascism was kept secret. Now you don’t have to hide it’

Martin McDonagh’s latest film has John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell shooting the breeze as CIA agents in 1973 on Easter Island
Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich and Martin McDonagh sat together
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Picks of the week

A serious looking man wears a dark blue suit and plain dark tie, standing against a black background
The new Darth Vader
How tech execs became the film villains of our age
A woman smiling. She has shoulder-length brown hair and is wearing a white top with black edging
Sofia Coppola
‘I’m glad we weren’t kicked out of Tokyo making Lost in Translation’
(L to R) Morgana Robinson as Julie and Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G in ALI G: WHO IZ I?, from Amazon MGM Studios. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios © 2026 Amazon Content Services LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Ali G: Who Iz I?
Can this film save character comedy cinema?
Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest.
Eva Marie Saint
The Hitchcock Blonde who outgrew the persona
Sean Connery and Christian Slater, as monks, examine a swollen corpse
The Name of the Rose
‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’
Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell in a scene from Digger.
quote  Digger is a misunderstood masterpiece
Sian Cain
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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

The Social Reckoning

Aaron Sorkin’s jittery sequel with all-new evil puppet Zuckerberg

★★★☆☆
Jeremy Strong’s Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to this thriller about a whistleblower
Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning, sitting at a desk wearing a grey sweatshirt and headphones.
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This week's reviews

Monica Dolan, as Catherine Corless, touches her ear with a concerned expression outdoors
The Lost Children of Tuam
Deeply serious retelling of Ireland’s devastating tragedy
★★★★☆
An conductor with white hair and a tuxedo, played by John Malkovich holds a baton before an orchestra in The Yellow Tie
The Yellow Tie
John Malkovich gives major hauteur as legendary record-hating maestro
★★★☆☆
Andrew Garfield with tousled hair wears a tattered robe, standing outside a thatched-roof building
The Uprising
Paul Greengrass turns revolutionary rage into a Robin Hood origin myth
★★☆☆☆
A man stands behind three colourful furry puppets in a still from V/H/S Mixtape
V/H/S/Mixtape
Murderous puppets pull the strings in mixed bag of gory music-themed mini-movies
★★☆☆☆
Kerry Washington and Ben Affleck in Animals.
Animals
Ben Affleck’s dull Netflix thriller is lacking in bark and bite
★★☆☆☆
“Matchbox The Movie" photo Apple TV movies Arturo Castro, Jessica Biel, John Cena, Teyonah Parris and Sam Richardson
Matchbox: the Movie
As pointless as a film based on a toy car could be
★☆☆☆☆
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