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Love in the Library – A brief guide to one of cinema’s most erotic spaces

By Susannah Goldsbrough

From Gone Girl to Atonement to Mothering Sunday, libraries have long featured in scenes about sex and sexuality.

IT Chapter Two

By Anton Bitel

Time stands still in more ways than one as this dull rehash of Andy Muschietti’s 2017 horror overstays its welcome.

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix

By Kambole Campbell

Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey becomes fused with a cosmic entity in this lacklustre series add-on.

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Evil isn’t clowning around in the It Chapter Two trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The grown-up cast includes Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader.

The films of M Night Shyamalan – ranked

By James Slaymaker

From Signs to Split, The Sixth Sense to The Happening, we survey this divisive director’s surprisingly varied career.

Glass

By Hannah Strong

M Night Shyamalan gets the gang back together for the bizarre finale to his “Eastrail 177 Trilogy”.

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Atomic Blonde

By Matt Thrift

Charlize Theron blasts her way through Cold War-era Berlin in this glib actioner from John Wick’s David Leitch.

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Why Atonement remains a great modern film about love and war

By Lena Hanafy

Joe Wright’s World War Two-era romance is a beautiful story of a young couple torn apart by fate.

Split

By Anton Bitel

James McAvoy is on spine-tingling form in this effective thriller from M Night Shyamalan.

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Watch the first trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s Split

By Little White Lies

Uh-oh… the once-celebrated master of the final act twist takes on split personalities with the help of James McAvoy.

X-Men: Apocalypse

By Adam Woodward

The third instalment in the rebooted comic book franchise is a colossal failure on every conceivable level.

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Atonement

By Lorien Haynes

Joe Wright’s World War Two weepie is a near masterpiece that only lacks the substance of great performances.

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