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Audiences continued to defy the critics in 2025, with two widely panned films – A Minecraft Movie and the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch – dominating the box office. Here are some of the films the critics did like, a few of which were also commercial hits

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Whingeing about the appalling state of things has become the national pastime. And for good reason. A lot has gone wrong in living memory. Nothing works well – if it works at all. You pull a lever and

Every terminal diagnosis presents a choice: How will you spend your precious final days? Faced with metastatic breast cancer, Molly Kochan fled a sexless marriage, embarked on dozens of kinky trysts,

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