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David Sexton

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The Artist

Charming and debonair: The Artist sweeps the board

Who can have a word to say against The Artist? It's just such a treat, so debonair, so full of espieglerie. That dog!

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A Dangerous Method - review

Film of the week: Keira Knightley dazzles as the young patient who sparked Freud and Jung's intense rivalry in David Cronenberg's pyscho drama

Saved by Cake - review

So many good men would like to believe that women are no different

Martha Marcy May Marlene - review

Film of the week: In her big screen debut as a woman scarred by the life she leaves behind on a strange commune, Elizabeth Olsen is not just good - but great

The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens - review

Dickens was as tireless a letter-writer as there has ever been

The Descendants - review

Film of the week: George Clooney puts his easy charm to good use as a man in midlife facing family and fidelity crises

Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems - review

As the years go by, it is becoming steadily clearer that Larkin is the post-war British poet who matters most, on every level

J.Edgar - review

Film of the week: Sexual politics override reality in Clint Eastwood's biopic of the closeted FBI founder played by Leonardo DiCaprio

Shame - review

Film of the week: Michael Fassbender plays a sex addict, Carey Mulligan is his sister in search of love. They're both obsessed - and so is director Steve McQueen

A Shed of One's Own: Midlife without the Crisis - review

In A Shed of One's Own, Marcus Berkmann treats all the familiar humiliations, collapses and subterfuges of late middle age in a ruefully humorous style, sometimes actually funny

In praise of a literary tradition: the hatchet job

Almost every time you come out of a play, you overhear it - people shaking their heads and saying to each other, "I can't understand it - the reviews were so good."

The Iron Lady - review

Meryl Streep is simply brilliant as Lady Thatcher in every way - but problems lie with the script for The Iron Lady, says David Sexton

Literary treats for 2012

Twenty of the best books to come this year, chosen by David Sexton

The Artist - review

A love story, old Hollywood glamour and great performances add up a feelgood factor of 10 for a black-and-white film set before talkies

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - review

Film of the week: Director Guy Ritchie returns to the simple pleasures of the brainless, big box-office franchise he created

The most chosen books of the year

It is a fact that Books of the Year choices are best weighed en masse, rather than credited individually

Smartphones turn their owners into zombies

These days Rip Van Winkle would not need to sleep so long. In the Washington Irving story he was out for 20 years before waking to find everything had changed. Now just a single one would have him rubbing his eyes

In a Barbie world: learning to love the Barbican Estate

The Barbican Estate is seen as a Brutalist masterpiece, but to our writer it has always been an ugly concrete labyrinth. Can the author of a new book convince him of its architectural merits?

New Year's Eve - review

Even the attractions of Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Ashton Kutcher, Zac Ephron and Jon Bon Jovi don't make Garry Marshall's seasonal romcom pretty viewing

Gardening - Books of the Year

David Sexton guides you through the best gardening books of the year...

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