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Helen Hawkins

Articles By Helen Hawkins

Mr Scorsese, Apple TV review - perfectly pitched documentary series with fascinating insights

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Down Cemetery Road, Apple TV review - wit, grit and a twisty plot, plus Emma Thompson on top form

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Wendy & Peter Pan, Barbican Theatre review - mixed bag of panto and comic play, turned up to 11

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The Assembled Parties, Hampstead review - a rarity, a well-made play delivered straight

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The Mastermind review - another slim but nourishing slice of Americana from Kelly Reichardt

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The Maids, Donmar Warehouse review - vibrant cast lost in a spectacular-looking fever dream

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London Film Festival 2025 - a Korean masterclass in black comedy and a Camus classic effectively realised

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London Film Festival 2025 - from paranoia in Brazil and Iran, to light relief in New York and Tuscany

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Like Water for Chocolate, Royal Ballet review - splendid dancing and sets, but there's too much plot

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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight review - vivid adaptation of a memoir about a Rhodesian childhood

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The Hack, ITV review - plodding anatomy of twin UK scandals

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The Billionaire Inside Your Head, Hampstead Theatre review - a map of a man with OCD

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Dracula, Lyric Hammersmith review - hit-and-miss recasting of the familiar story as feminist diatribe

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The Code, Southwark Playhouse Elephant review - superbly cast, resonant play about the price of fame in Hollywood

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale review - an attemptedly elegiac final chapter haunted by its past

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I Fought the Law, ITVX review - how an 800-year-old law was challenged and changed

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