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James SaynorFriday

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 31, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · by James SaynorFriday, 2 October 2026

    Digger review - tycoon buffoonery with more than meets the eye (opens the original)

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    We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. I perhaps shouldn’t say too much about this film, for reasons I shouldn’t say too much about. The point is, a bit of a surprise comes along after around half an hour. Normally, you wouldn’t hold back revealing such a thing when it comes this early in a movie, but on thi

  2. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · by James SaynorFriday, 28 August 2026

    Bitter Christmas review - Almodóvar goes life-jacking (opens the original)

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    We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Here’s something you don’t see every day at the cinema: a filmmaker tells a boring story, then makes the whole point of the film about telling a boring story. Pedro Almodóvar is known for busy, gymnastic storytelling that can sometimes be so heightened it borders, in hi

  3. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · by James SaynorFriday, 31 July 2026

    Ish review - the kids are alright, but for the cops (opens the original)

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    We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. “Ish” is the name of the lead character in this movie, but it also might be a suffix attached to adjectives describing it. Here we have a sparkish piece full of smallish moments in a quietish town that’s typically dullish and British. For 12-year-old Ish, life is somewh

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