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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

By Hannah Strong

The team behind Game Night offer a peppy spin on the classic 1970s roleplaying game, with Chris Pine as a rogue seeking revenge on those who have wronged him.

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John Wick: Chapter 4

By Kambole Campbell

Keanu Reeves returns as the international assassin known as 'Baba Yaga', facing new enemies as he battles his way to redemption.

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods

By David Jenkins

It’s a case of massively diminishing returns for Zachary Levi’s snap-talking teen superhero in this sequel which struggles to locate a raison d’être.

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Cocaine Bear

By Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

A rag-tag group must outwit a bear on a drug-filled rampage in an American national park in Elizabeth Banks' gory comedy-thriller.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

By Jake Cole

Scott Lang and his pint-sized family of heroes face off against Kang the Conquerer in this latest uninspiring Marvel outing.

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Plane

By Rafa Sales Ross

Gerard Butler plays a pilot whose plane goes down in a conflict zone in Jean-François Richet's surprisingly satisfying thriller.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

By David Jenkins

A gaudy blue folly which encapsulates James Cameron’s strength as an image-maker, but weakness as a storyteller.

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Emancipation

By David Jenkins

Will Smith brings stern dramatic heft to an enslaved man making a dash for freedom in Antoine Fuqua’s tonally mish-mashed action drama.

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Strange World

By David Jenkins

This retro-inspired Disney adventure yarn boasts lots of great, progressive ideas, but lacks in the imagination department.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

By Cheyenne Bunsie

Writer/director Ryan Coogler expands his colonialist critique in this epic MCU sequel which also pays moving tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman.

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Hunt

By Josh Slater-Williams

Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae stars in his directorial debut, a high-voltage espionage thriller set in 1980s South Korea.

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The Woman King

By Rogan Graham

Gina Prince-Bythewood delivers her masterpiece in this quietly radical action epic with a stunning lead turn from Viola Davis.

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It Is In Us All

By Jamison Kent

Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ compelling feature debut offers a moody account of hometown Stockholm syndrome and repressed emotion.

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Prey

By David Jenkins

A lean monster-slasher B-movie set in the Predator universe that’s a highlight of an extremely patchy franchise.

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Bullet Train

By Charles Bramesco

An unlucky assassin finds himself on the commute from hell in director David Leitch’s irritating action-thriller.

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The Gray Man

By Hannah Strong

A CIA assassin and a psychopath play a game of intercontinental cat and mouse in this poorly-executed action-thriller.

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Thor: Love and Thunder

By Adam Woodward

Taika Waititi returns to the MCU five years after Thor: Ragnarok with a disappointing sequel sorely lacking in charm and imagination.

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