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Verity is a second-rate copy of The Housemaid that does Anne Hathaway no favours (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Verity has âmoneymakerâ scrawled all over it. It is yet another spawn of the Colleen Hoover literary kingdom, though thematically itâs actually a departure from the romance-led It Ends With Us (2024) and Reminders of Him (2026), instead playing out as a near-identical twin of last yearâs thriller The Housemaid, by fellow bestselling behemoth Freida McFadden, which ear
Practical Magic 2 is a lazy, pointless cash-grab sequel – review (opens the original)
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Practical Magic 2 will, unfortunately, have to be filed away next to the other poorly justified, cash-grab sequels. While the 1998 original did leave the door slightly ajar to the possibility that witch sisters Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gilly Owens (Nicole Kidman) failed to break the family curse that doomed any man they love to die, all its sequel does is circle around the same track with additional, diluted backstory. We’ve barely begun before Sally and Gilly are back in their aunts’ ginormou
The Dog Stars review â Jacob Elordi seems confused by Ridley Scottâs dystopian bore (opens the original)
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Sir Ridley Scott has earned the right to make a film as derivative as The Dog Stars. Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982) alone sealed his status as one of the great fathers of modern sci-fi, and thereâs nary a Dune or a Project Hail Mary now that isnât covered in his fingerprints (certainly, thereâd be no Project Hail Mary without Scottâs adaptation of Andy Weirâs previous novel, The Martian, in 2015). His new post-apocalyptic drama can be roughly divided into three major set pieces:
The End of Oak Street is better than every Jurassic World movie â review (opens the original)
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Nostalgic pop culture doesnât need to feel like weâre watching a limp corpse being puppeteered around the room. David Robert Mitchellâs The End of Oak Street reminds us of this, delivering palaeontological chaos of the Spielberg variety. Itâs entertaining as hell and silly when it needs to be, without sacrificing too much of the disaffected cool-kid style of the directorâs previous, adult-orientated output â namely It Follows (2014), a horror haunted by suburban decay. The End of Oak
Brand New Day is the best Spider-Man movie in more than 20 years â review (opens the original)
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With Brand New Day, Marvel has finally brought Spider-Man back down to Earth. While introducing Tom Hollandâs interpretation of Peter Parker with 2016âs expansive, ensemble-heavy Captain America: Civil War may have worked as a flex move on the studioâs part â and its collaborative truce with Sony, who own the rights to the character â itâs been a little strange to see the quintessentially New York, street-level hero so frequently ripped away from the environment that shaped him. They
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