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Babygirl review: ‘follow your heart’s desire’

Nicole Kidman’s character appears to have it all, but her sex life is not what she needs it to be

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Generation game: Nicole Kidman as Romy and Harris Dickenson as Samuel in Babygirl

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 12: (EXCLUSIVE ACCESS) Jesse Eisenberg attends the BFI presents "A Real Pain" preview and Q&A at BFI Southbank on December 12, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Joe Maher/Getty Images for BFI)

How A Real Pain took Jesse Eisenberg on a road trip to his psyche’s ‘ground zero’

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'Jump scares abound': Lily-Rose Depp and Emma Corrin in Nosferatu (Photo: Focus Features)

Nosferatu review: Drips with gothic horror and launches Lily-Rose Depp

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2024 in review: theatre

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2024 in review: film

The year’s cinematic wonders include a movie about the last Jews in a Paris suburb and the best double act to grace the silver screen

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December 24, 2024 16:39

Goldie Frocks and Bear Mitzvah review: ‘this homage to the shmatte trade needs a slight trim’

This kosher show does to the fairy tale what Yiddish theatre once did to the classics, but it is, what is called in both theatre and and tailoring circles, a bit baggy

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December 18, 2024 12:36

Panto pandemonium: Ian Sackville's magician Morris (with a copy of this newspaper) Credit: Eamon B Shanahan

The Producers review: ‘an edgy revival with a heimishe soul’

In this terrific show, Andy Nyman plays a sweeter version of Mel Brooks’s greatest creation Max Bialystock

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December 18, 2024 12:13

The Producers review: ‘an edgy revival with a heimishe soul’

Rumours review: Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance in G7 satire

World leaders take on zombies and a giant brain in this genre-defying film

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December 11, 2024 17:44

World leaders gather: Cate Blanchett (centre) and Charles Dance (left)

Ballet Shoes review: ‘everything a family show should be’

The first major stage adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s children’s classic is superb

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December 11, 2024 17:34

Sisters in arms: Yanexi Enriquez (left), Grace Saif (centre) and Daisy Saquerra Photo: Manuel Harlan

‘I’ve entered the Jewish stage of my career’

Until he played a Chasidic Jew in What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank this year, Simon Yadoo, 45, had never had a Jewish role. Now he’s treading the boards in the Jewish panto Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah too

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December 10, 2024 15:35

Wicked: Simon Yadoo as the villain Calvin Brine in Jewish panto Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah at JW3 Photo: Eamonn B Shanahan

Nightbitch review: ‘it’s a film for mums’

Bullied by a two-year-old’s tears, a woman’s fire extinguished in a pool of wee-wee and need, there is a kind of catharsis in this tale about the spirit-sapping reality of bringing up children

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December 5, 2024 14:12