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It's dark.

We're only two weeks into 2025, and already the news is showing absolutely no regard for those of us who are hoping for a gentle, peaceful slide into the new year.

But let's forget about the misery of the world for the next half hour.

If you're in the market for a dose of cultural escapism, stop the doom scrolling

and join me and three of the Guardian's most evangelical critics, Lanre Bakery, Ben Bowman

Thomas and Catherine Short.

It may be a dark month, but that's good for cinema, because it's also in the UK, at least,

when all the good big films are released in time for the Oscars.

There's The Brutalist, a three-and-a-half-hour epic,

starring Adrian Brodie as a Hungarian-born Jewish architect

who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States.

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