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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is fun and fantastic (in parts)

There’s swashbuckling and explosions, but Adam Driver is the real star of the ninth and final film in the Skywalker saga




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Style triumphs over content in Long Day’s Journey into Night

Chinese film-maker Bi Gan’s movie slips into a beautiful, bewildering netherworld




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Cats lands on its feet with terrific choreography, Judi Dench, James Corden and Taylor Swift

Tom Hooper’s musical adaptation is weird, wonderful and worryingly erotic




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My 50 years as a film critic

In five decades, Nigel Andrews saw every movie and met all the stars. This is what he learnt




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Five decades, 25 films — Nigel Andrews’ favourites

From ‘Raging Bull’ to ‘Spirited Away’, the FT’s outgoing film critic picks his top movies




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Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is vibrant, sardonic and out­rageously gorgeous

Saoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel — with sly feminist subtexts




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La Dolce Vita — a timely return for Fellini’s caustic classic

The director’s satire on consumerist culture shines through in this sparkling new print




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Federico Fellini at 100 and the myth of realism

Nigel Andrews on how the Italian auteur abandoned neorealism for something looser and more fantastical




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Terry Jones, actor, writer and director, 1942-2020

The versatile Monty Python star who sided with the underdog




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Kirk Douglas, Hollywood actor, 1916—2020

For a postwar movie generation Kirk Douglas was the definition of ‘macho’




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From Psycho to Parasite: why the basement is cinema’s scariest location

Ever since I was knee-high to Nosferatu, I have loved steps and stairs on screen




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Max von Sydow, actor, 1929-2020

Master of high miserabilism who starred in ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Seventh Seal’




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The five best mass-infection movies — and two new odes to endurance

War films 1917 and the upcoming Painted Bird are the latest entries in a sub-genre driven by relentless adversity and survival




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Tech losers can win longer term

Uber cuts 3,700 staff, Libra’s first CEO, Microsoft Surface surfeit




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NHS tracing app in question as experts assess Google-Apple model

Swiss firm hired to test mainstream software despite launch of go-it-alone system




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FT’s legal hackathon races to ease pandemic pressures

Projects under way range from more efficient legal aid to facilitating esignatures




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Twitter failing to curb misinformation ‘superspreaders’, report warns

Posts from high-profile accounts found to be promoting questionable virus therapies and cures




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UKFast founders exit as private equity firm takes control

Inflexion has become majority shareholder following sexual assault allegations against former CEO




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UK starts to build second contact tracing app

NHS team is told to build alternative on system being developed by Apple and Google




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Schools scramble to meet demand for online MBAs

Flexibility and lower fees appeal — but not all providers are competing on price




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Will online MBAs boost diversity in business schools?

Ease of access and (sometimes) greater affordability are attracting a broader demographic




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Decision time: should I study online or on campus?

Would-be students need to consider the trade-off between flexibility and networking




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Mini-courses pave the way to a full MBA

Online learning modules boost students’ academic confidence and business knowhow




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Financial Times Online MBA directory 2020

Find out which schools are offering distance-learning post-graduate business degrees




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Coronavirus accelerates switch to online MBAs

Online courses grow while future of campus-based qualifications is questioned




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Students flock to study quant finance in record numbers

Enrollees from India and China make up a third of intake




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Education leaders look for students with practical potential and ‘Midlands grit’

Teaching geared to developing ‘ability to use wide range of career skills’




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AI in education will help us understand how we think

Robot teachers are the start of an evolving relationship with artificial intelligence




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Remote teaching becomes vital during virus outbreak

Universities and business schools are facing unprecedented challenges across the world




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Coursera offers help to universities hit by coronavirus

Online learning group grants free access to teaching platform for institutions in lockdown




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How remote study is changing business school life

The coronavirus crisis has created new ways to learn and collaborate




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MBA students demand tuition fee refunds over campus closures

Candidates at Wharton among those protesting over diminished educational experience




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The executive education courses tackling burnout

Growing understanding of the costs and fading stigma is driving demand 




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The other 5G: leading a five-generation workforce

Executive education courses are teaching how to manage multigenerational teams 




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Jesuits on a mission left legacy of living happily

Hidden paradise blossomed for 150 years until settlements overrun by plunderers




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Ayoreo people struggle to counter Chaco deforestation

Legislation has improved but signs of progress are thin on ground




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Horacio Cartes has eye on smoking out business potential

Controversial cigarette tycoon and ex-president still wields influence




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Guaraní: both Paraguay’s secret weapon and its glue

Widely spoken indigenous vernacular has problems around official adoption and online presence




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White men run 98% of finance. Will philanthropy help?

Time wasted is time lost, says the Kresge Foundation as it makes a public pledge




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Vatican may ordain married priests in remote areas

Reform continues under Pope Francis with South American summit tackling shortage of clergy




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Guatemala and US in talks over safe third-country status

Plans for asylum seekers come despite state department advice to ‘reconsider travel’ due to crime




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Guaidó representative recognised at fractious OAS

Organization of American States voted to accept Venezuela’s US-backed alternative regime




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Overseas earnings trigger Trump tussle with Central America

White House threatens to use remittances from US as leverage in migration dispute




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Colombia heads back towards its violent past

Farc declaration of war raises fears of a fresh outbreak of conflict




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Host countries struggle to cope with Venezuela refugee crisis

Colombia seeks $1bn in funds as UN aid appeal falls well short of target




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Poverty, priests and politics: why Peronism is back in Argentina

As ‘slum priests’ try to fill the gap left by the state, the populist movement is on the rise again




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Latin America faces a second ‘lost decade’

From Chile to Bolivia, revolts against leaders from left and right have root causes in stagnant growth and weak investment




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Colombians take to the streets in countrywide protests

Marches come as discontent grows over labour reform, pensions and corruption




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The death of Chile’s pension promise

Protesters urge overhaul of system once lauded as the ‘Mercedes-Benz’ of retirement provision




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Venezuela: refugee crisis tests Colombia’s stability

With the exodus set to continue, the strains on Bogotá and other governments are set to intensify