wed 15/10/2025

Helen Hawkins

Articles By Helen Hawkins

London Film Festival - 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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The Paper, Sky Max review - a spinoff of the US Office worth waiting 20 years for

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Interview, Riverside Studios review - old media vs new in sparky scrap between generations

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Little Trouble Girls review - masterful debut breathes new life into a girl's sexual awakening

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Materialists review - a misfiring romcom or an undercooked satire?

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Eight Postcards from Utopia review - ads from the era when 1990s Romania embraced capitalism

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Every Brilliant Thing, @sohoplace review - return of the comedy about suicide that lifts the spirits

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Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, Rambert, Sadler's Wells review - exciting dancing, if you can see it

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