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On the Rocks

By Hannah Strong

Rashida Jones and Bill Murray star in Sofia Coppola’s New York caper about a woman who suspects her husband is having an affair.

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Barking Dogs Never Bite

By Anton Bitel

Bong Joon-ho’s wryly funny social commentary is released for the first time in the UK courtesy of Curzon.

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Koko-di Koko-da

By Anton Bitel

A grieving couple embark on a camping trip in writer/director Johannes Nyholm’s folkloric psychological horror.

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Bill & Ted Face the Music

By Charles Bramesco

The Wyld Stallyns return after nearly three decades out of the saddle. The result could hardly be more excellent.

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She Dies Tomorrow

By Lillian Crawford

Amy Seimetz’s neon-soaked danse macabre is one of the year’s most chilling and effective horrors.

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Perfumes

By Lillian Crawford

Emmanuelle Devos stars as a fragrance maker extraordinaire in this slight sensory drama from Grégory Magne.

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Yes, God, Yes

By Keli Williams

Natalia Dyer plays a Catholic girl who experiences a profound sexual awakening in Karen Maine’s smart religious satire.

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Again Once Again

By Lillian Crawford

Argentine actor and author Romina Paula turns director for this sublime mediation on middle age womanhood.

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How to Build a Girl

By Katie Goh

Beanie Feldstein brings bags of charm to this deft adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s coming-of-age novel.

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Saint Frances

By Liz Seabrook

Kelly O’Sullivan writes and stars in this sensitive and timely survey of contemporary womanhood.

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Bad Education

By Hannah Strong

Hugh Jackman plays a tricksy teacher in director Cory Finley’s pitch-black classroom comedy.

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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

By David Jenkins

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are the Icelandic bar band who accidentally make it big in this occasionally effective comedy.

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Citizens of the World

By David Jenkins

A light, frisky Italian comedy about three old geezers looking to leave Rome for a more fulfilling life.

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The King of Staten Island

By Hannah Strong

Pete Davidson fictionalises his own adolescence in Judd Apatow's warmest bro comedy to date.

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Days of the Bagnold Summer

By David Jenkins

This melancholy comic character portrait of an emotionally estranged mother and son falls in its final act.

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Guest of Honour

By David Jenkins

David Thewlis as a finicky health inspector is the high point of this otherwise bizarre and overwrought melodrama.

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The Uncertain Kingdom

By Thomas Hobbs

This anthology of 20 short films presents an interesting but imbalanced cross-section of modern British life.

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