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Watch the 4K restoration trailer for True Romance

by Charles Bramesco

Arrow Video is giving the 4K treatment to an early ​’90s triumph from Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott.
Person in a white dress standing in a wheat field, with a clear sky in the background.
Festivals

Flag Day – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Sean Penn returns to Cannes five years after the fiasco of The Last Face with a somehow even more calamitous family drama.
Two Asian individuals, a man and a woman, sitting in the front seats of a car.
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Drive My Car – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Ryusuke Hamaguchi adapts Murukami and delivers a masterpiece study on the fickle dynamics of human emotion.
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Compartment No. 6 – first-look review

by Mark Asch

This delicate Finnish comedy of social and political manners has all the trappings of an arthouse crowd-pleaser.
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The Velvet Underground – first-look review

by Michael Leader

Todd Haynes’ first documentary takes a thrilling, cautiously ambivalent look at the NY art-rock demigods.
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La Fracture – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A small domestic tiff spirals out into city-wide civil war in Catherine Corsini’s comedy-infused political drama.
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Ali & Ava – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Clio Barnard returns with a social realist riff on the classic romcom, and it’s one of her best films to date.
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Cow – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Andrea Arnold successfully adapts her social realist mode to minutely chronicle the life of an average dairy cow.
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Benedetta – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Lip-smacking provocation and saucy humour abounds in Paul Verhoeven’s rip-roaring nunsploitation romp.
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In Praise Of

El vino did flow – How The Office achieved sitcom perfection

by Darren Richman

Twenty years on, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s landmark show reminds us that a good idea is a good idea forever.