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Robots - friends of man. Or enemies? This is what Soviet directors tried to get to the bottom of in their movies.

Some of these movies served as inspiration for Hollywood directors. Meanwhile, one of them was partially filmed in actual space!

The Guardian’s longstanding film critic, who has died aged 91, was known for his insight into blockbusters and art pictures alike. Here are excerpts from his takes on Solaris, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Malcolm X and more

OVER THE PAST THIRTY YEARS, Mike Nelson has expanded the avant-garde’s long ragpicking tradition. His dense, material work reconfigures the discarded and the obsolete to produce naturalistic installations that subtly reveal their own artifice. The artist’s famously phantasmagoric production avoids didacticism while rousing us from our own ever more dysfunctional neoliberal dreamworld. True to form, Nelson’s survey “Extinction Beckons” at the Hayward Gallery, organized by Yung Ma, was a deliberately off-kilter not-quite-retrospective that was highly self-conscious about its own positi...

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ - the prequel to the legendary movies - hit TV screens in September 2022. Russians have had a