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BRIAN VINER reviews Nosferatu: Fang- tastic! This demonic vampire is a truly terrifying resurrection


When a new year in the cinema begins with a film as steeped in horror - and saturated in dread - as Nosferatu, it feels worryingly like a harbinger of things to come.

Classic film on TV One of the very best of the many music biopics made in the past 20 years, with Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon excelling as Johnny Cash and June Carter. There is some hefty talent, too, behind We Live In Time, a romantic weepie starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, and directed by John Crowley, whose 2015 film Brooklyn was such a pleasure. More problematically, at least from where I was sitting, it’s all ineffably middle-class, featuring one of those dinner parties that only seem to exist in the imagination of screenwriters (Nick Payne, in this instance), at which none of the highly educated, eloquent people around the table can complete a sentence without effing and blinding.

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