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  The Guardian

  Tom Hanks ruined my life! – podcasts of the week

  Tom Hanks ruined my life! – podcasts of the week . Meet the man trying to pick up the pieces after being brutally fired by Hanks. Plus: an extraordinary investigation into sinister goings on at the British military training camp

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  The Telegraph

  On the QM2, cruise passengers rediscover a quality lost in modern life

  One of the most anticipated films of the year is being released today (December 10). Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Let Them All Talk features a cast of A-Listers including Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges and Gemma Chan. The plot revolves around Alice Hughes, a Pulitzer-winning author who embarks on a voyage from New York to Southampton in order to collect a literary award in England. Hughes, played by three-time Oscar-winner Streep, seeks to reconnect and, perhaps, heal

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  The Guardian

  French Exit review – Michelle Pfeiffer can't save disastrous sinking souffle

  French Exit review – Michelle Pfeiffer can't save disastrous sinking souffle. A misjudged performance from the star is one of many bum notes in an irritating and indulgent story of rich people becoming less rich

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  The Telegraph

  Waves review: stirring and showy, this is the kind of cinema that keeps you young

  Dir: Trey Edward Shults; Starring: Kelvin Harrison Jr, Taylor Russell, Sterling K Brown, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Alexa Demie, Lucas Hedges. 15 cert, 136 mins.

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  The Independent

  Waves review: A family drama that is all dazzle and no thought

  Dir: Trey Edward Shults. Cast: Kelvin Harrison Jr, Taylor Russell, Lucas Hedges, Sterling K Brown, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Alexa Demie. 15 cert, 136 mins.Particular care needs to be taken when white people tell black stories. Waves is a film about the rapid and shocking destruction of an upper-middle-class black family, written and directed by a white man. It shows.

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  The Guardian

  Honey Boy review – painful honesty from Shia LaBeouf

  Honey Boy review – painful honesty from Shia LaBeouf. An effectively raw account of the maverick actor’s dysfunctional upbringing

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  Evening Standard

  Honey Boy review: Daddy's boy Shia LaBeouf gets even in autobiographical drama

  Shia LaBeouf was mainly brought up by his dad, who was an addict. And when Shia was little, he was addicted to his dad. That’s what emerges from this autobiographical drama, scripted by LaBeouf and featuring one of his best performances. How Freudian that he may end up winning awards for playing his own dad, known here as James Lort. James is shown to be pathetically insecure, as well as terrifying. He isn’t the wind beneath his son’s wings. He’s the typhoon.Shia’s alter ego is Otis. Framing sce

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  The Guardian

  Honey Boy review – the Shia LaBeouf renaissance begins here

  Honey Boy review – the Shia LaBeouf renaissance begins here. LaBeouf writes and co-stars in this heartfelt, well-performed film based on his own personal history as a troubled young actor and addict

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  The Independent

  Honey Boy review: Shia LaBeouf offers a dose of pure cinematic therapy

  Dir: Alma Har’el. Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Byron Bowers, Laura San Giacomo, FKA Twigs. 15 cert, 94 mins.“I’m gonna make a movie about you,” Otis Lort (Lucas Hedges) tells his father in Honey Boy’s final moments. Shia LaBeouf may have changed the names and muddied the details, but his script can only run from the truth for so long – this is a cinematic therapy session. The actor first wrote the film back in 2017, during a stint of court-ordered rehab. He plays his own father (

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  Esquire

  How 'Honey Boy' Director Alma Har'el Found Love In Shia LaBeouf's Pain

  Working from a script LaBeouf drafted while in court-mandated therapy, Har'el has created one of 2019's best films

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