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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

By Hannah Strong

Filmmaker Morgan Neville provides a thoughtful examination of American television legend Fred Rogers.

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Bohemian Rhapsody

By Hannah Strong

Freddie Mercury and Queen receive the long-awaited glossy biopic treatment courtesy of Bryan Singer.

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Stan & Ollie

By David Jenkins

Jon S Baird’s biopic makes you question whether the titular silent comedy duo were ever funny in the first place.

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22 July

By Hannah Strong

Paul Greengrass shows the action and aftermath of the 2011 Norway attacks in his latest terrorism-driven drama.

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First Man

By Adam Woodward

Damien Chazelle’s dramatisation of the Apollo 11 mission only scratches the surface of its human subject.

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BlacKkKlansman

By Adam Woodward

A black cop infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee’s fiery, fiercely funny takedown of institutional racism.

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A Prayer Before Dawn

By Christina Newland

Joe Cole plays a boxer who gets banged up abroad in this harrowing and poetic prison drama.

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Whitney

By David Jenkins

This reveal-all documentary about the late pop icon Whitney Huston from director Kevin Macdonald makes for compelling viewing.

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Mary Shelley

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Elle Fanning’s central performance aside, there’s little to stir the blood in this biopic from Wadjda director Haifaa Al-Mansour.

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The Happy Prince

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Rupert Everett hams it up in this uneven biopic about the final years of Oscar Wilde.

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My Friend Dahmer

By Elena Lazic

The early years of the man dubbed the ‘Milwaukee Cannibal’ make for a compelling character study.

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Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager

By Adam Woodward

This evocative documentary celebrates the life and career of one of football’s true greats.

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Redoubtable

By David Jenkins

A bold but ultimately disastrous biography of one of the leading lights of European cinematic invention.

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The Young Karl Marx

By David Jenkins

Ever wondered why Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto?

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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco

By Caroline Golum

A colourful portrait of the 1970s fashion circuit as seen through the prism of an iconic illustrator.

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Birth of the Dragon

By Joel Down

This strange, early years biography of Bruce Lee appears more interested in one of the story’s male side characters.

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The Mercy

By David Jenkins

Colin Firth heads for the open ocean in this mysterious drama from British writer/director James Marsh.

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