THE GRADU ATE

OUT 23 JUNE

Enjoying a 50th birthday 4K restoration, Mike Nichols’ 1967 sex comedy shot Dustin Hoffman to stardom, established Anne Bancroft as the all-time movie cougar, and hoisted Simon & Garfunkel atop the charts. Hoffman’s the uni lad, Bancroft the predatory mother of his girlfriend. The dialogue’s a joy and Nichols furnishes impeccable comic timing. Utterly of its period, yet timeless. Philip Kemp