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The Old Man review – Jeff Bridges shines in serviceable action series
The 72-year-old actor plays a fugitive of the past in a watchable drama that also works as a fantasy of hyper-competence in the sunset years
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Animals review – tragicomic ode to growing up disgracefully
Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat fizz in nuanced adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel
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Animals review – untamed female friendship drama is a Sundance triumph
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Marina Warner is right – gold stars for writers leads to creative death
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Cariad Lloyd’s podcast about bereavement continues to impress, while Shawkat and Kirsten Wiig’s new venture is a high-quality thriller
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Duck Butter review – intense lesbian romance churns up disappointment
Search Party’s Alia Shawkat falls for a Manic Pixie Dream Girl in this occasionally daring but ultimately exhausting 24-hour love story
May 2017
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The former child star on her role in ‘hipster Columbo’ series Search Party, her family’s strip club – and why she’s not an ‘It girl’
January 2017
Search Party: this hipster murder mystery is the sharpest TV satire in years
Red-carpet rebels: why trousers for women are a political act
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Paint It Black review – Amber Tamblyn explores loss in her directorial debut
Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer excel in Tamblyn’s dark first feature on women struggling in their own ways to cope with the sudden passing of a loved one
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Arrested Development season four: the return of the greatest sitcom ever
Seven years after being cancelled, the show has been resurrected by Netflix. But why has it retained such a vast army of fans? Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Cera, Tony Hale and other cast members explain why
