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Reminders of Him review - Colleen Hoover strikes again

by Emma Kiely

The latest Colleen Hoover book adaptation is a grim dose of misery and trauma porn punctuated by a terrible lead performance and an undeniable conservative sheen.

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100 Nights of Hero review – an affecting fable of queer female liberation

by Laura Venning

Julia Jackman’s adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel is a charming, ambitious queer fantasy.

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Venice Film Festival

100 Nights of Hero – first-look review

by Laura Venning

Julia Jackman’s adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel is a charming, ambitious queer fantasy.
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Longlegs review – a harrowing serial killer thriller

by Hannah Strong

A rookie FBI agent with psychic abilities hunts down a ruthless serial killer in Osgood Perkins’ thoroughly unnerving, fantastically odd horror.

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Greta

by Caitlin Quinlan

Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz star in this enjoyably silly cat-and-mouse thriller.

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At Any Price

by Adam Woodward

Zac Efron plays a stock car racing hotshot in this flaccid family drama from Rahmin Bahrani.

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It Follows

by Anton Bitel

A petrifying and refreshingly original horror movie from American name-to-watch, David Robert Mitchell.

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The Guest

by David Jenkins

Dan Stevens is a strange visitor who ends up being a dull visitor in Adam Wingard’s underwhelming genre mash-up.

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