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2023 Wipe is coming...

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First Take: Wonka - the unexpected prequel that gets the Dahl style perfect

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First Take: Wish - Disney’s 100th ends not with a bang, but with 100+ easter eggs

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First Take: Napoleon - the big historical epic is back, Ridley Scott style

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First Take: The Marvels - two out of three ain’t bad

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First Take: Sumotherhood - allow it, wasteman?

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First Take: The Great Escaper - a quiet way for Sir Michael to bow out from cinema

First Take: The Creator - and they thought there was no demand for intelligent sci-fi…

First Take: The Equalizer 3 - progress over perfection

First Take: Blue Beetle - how and why did film Twitter write it off that early?

First Take Classics: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - re-enter a world of pure imagination

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First Takes at LYIFF: The Entrepot - Cantonese cinema takes over the Lowther Pavilion

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Short Takes at LYIFF: The North has a new film festival, and it’s awesome

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First Take: Haunted Mansion - Disney’s identity crisis continues, and it ain’t great

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First Take: Scrapper - Screen Unseen was built for films like this

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First Take: Gran Turismo - apparently video games CAN make dreams come true

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First Take: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - mean, green but so lovable

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First Take: Barbie - the lighter film of that so-called ‘Barbenheimer’ movement

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First Take: Oppenheimer - Nolan has become death, the destroyer of worlds

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First Take: Asteroid City - a little bit of everything from Mr Anderson

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First Take: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - there’s another maverick-like success coming

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First Take: Joy Ride - The Hangover meets Girls Trip with some extra Rogen spice

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First Take: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - the summer holiday box office battle starts here

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First Take: Greatest Days - take that back to the writers’ room and don’t do it like this