Leila Latif
Leila Latif is a freelance journalist, broadcaster, film critic, and self-described "haver of hot takes". She used that power (and years of experience) to cover TV and film for a wide variety of outlets such as GamesRadar+, Total Film, Little White Lies, The A.V. Club, SFX, BBC Culture, and many more.
Latest articles by Leila Latif
Spaceman review: "Adam Sandler excels as a lonely astronaut in Netflix sci-fi drama"
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Spaceman director says he wanted to create an Adam Sandler role with zero Adam Sandler in it
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Exclusive Exclusive: Netflix’s Spaceman director Johan Renck says he wanted to create a role for Adam Sandler that had no aspect of Sandler at all
The Color Purple review: "Treads a fine line between saccharine and crowd-pleasing"
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Cassandro review: "Should earn Gael García Bernal plenty of Oscar buzz"
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Hypnotic review: "Robert Rodriguez takes us on an insubstantial but raucous ride"
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review The Total Film verdict on Rodriguez's latest film is here
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has secret cameos even the cast don't know about
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Exclusive Exclusive: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse directors tell Total Film about secret cast members, as well as sharing two exclusive new images
Dead Ringers showrunner on bringing the female gaze to David Cronenberg’s classic horror
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News Exclusive: Alice Birch teases what to expect from Dead Ringers, Prime Video's new Rachel Weisz-led thriller series
Sebastian Stan and Julianne Moore on protecting the twists of new Apple TV+ thriller Sharper
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exclusive Exclusive: Benjamin Caron and actors Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan tell Total Film all about their twisty new thriller for Apple TV+
Gwen Stacy faces a "unique dilemma" in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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Exclusive Exclusive: Director Kemp Powers reveals that The Spot is the villain of the next two Spider-Verse movies
White Noise review: "Noah Baumbach's latest marriage story is full of surprises"
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Viola Davis addresses her troops in exclusive new look at The Woman King
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Exclusive Exclusive: The Woman King director talks filming the epic movie on location in South Africa
Is it just me, or has there never been a bad Spider-Man film?
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Feature A Total Film writer on ol' webhead's big-screen sticking power...
Halloween Kills review: "Does exactly what a middle chapter should do"
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Is it just me, or is Spike Lee's Bamboozled a masterpiece?
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Feature A Total Film writer on why the 2000 film is one of the director's best...