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Three Thousand Years of Longing

by Catherine Bray

Mad Max direc­tor George Miller returns to the big screen with an adap­ta­tion of mod­ern-day fable The Djinn in the Nightin­gale’s Eye.

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Beast

by Esther Rosenfield

Idris Elba is a father men­aced by a killer lion in this capa­ble but slight thriller.

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Sonic the Hedgehog 2

by David Jenkins

Dashed-off sequel to the 2020 hit which makes the Chip­munks films look like Tarkovsky by comparison.

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Two masked figures on horseback in a Western setting, wearing cowboy hats and bandanas over their faces.
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The Harder They Fall

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

Jeymes Samuel’s supreme­ly vio­lent revenge thriller is a bold and bloody rein­ven­tion of the movie western.

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The Suicide Squad

by Lillian Crawford

James Gunn dou­bles down on his crass brand of humour in this charm­less, unfun­ny and facile fran­chise redo.

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Cats

by Hannah Strong

Tay­lor Swift, TS Eliot and Dig­i­tal Fur Tech­nol­o­gy com­bine to dis­as­trous effect in this feline musi­cal folly.

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Yardie

by Christina Newland

Idris Elba makes his direc­to­r­i­al debut with a par­tial adap­ta­tion of Vic­tor Headley’s cult 1992 novel.

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A woman in a black dress stands on an ornate balcony, looking up at a large crystal chandelier.
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Molly’s Game

by Manuela Lazic

Jes­si­ca Chas­tain plays real-life high roller Mol­ly Bloom in this goofy gam­bling dra­ma from Aaron Sorkin.

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A bearded man wearing a warm winter coat and hat stands in a snowy mountain landscape.
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The Mountain Between Us

by Elena Lazic

Love blos­soms in the wake of a plane crash in this fun roman­tic dis­as­ter movie with Idris Elba and Kate Winslet.

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A man in a long coat stands on a rocky hillside.
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The Dark Tower

by Elena Lazic

Idris Elba plays a cos­mic gun­slinger in this tame adap­ta­tion of Stephen King’s fan­ta­sy saga.

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Finding Dory

by Anton Bitel

Pixar’s lat­est transocean­ic odyssey is a pix­el-per­fect com­e­dy about learn­ing to over­come adver­si­ty and disability.

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Two people, a woman in a red jacket and a man in a dark coat, walking together in an urban setting.
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Bastille Day

by David Jenkins

Idris Elba gets his action man on in this sol­id if unspec­tac­u­lar Parisian genre work-out.

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