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MARIA DUARTE recommends a powerful and moving dramatisation of two journalists’ efforts to uncover the predatory truth about Harvey Weinstein, which kickstarted the Me Too movement
A scene from She Said
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
She Said (15)
Directed by Maria Schrader
THIS powerful and moving drama recounts the extraordinary and unrelenting work by New York Times journalists Jodie Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) to lift the lid on Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s abuse of women, which ignited the Me Too movement.
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