Crime

Joker: Folie à Deux review – a grim karaoke session

By Hannah Strong

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.

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The Goldman Case review – a thumping courtroom drama

By David Jenkins

Cédric Kahn recreates the gripping 1976 trial of political activist Pierre Goldman in this immersive courtroom drama.

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Red Rooms review – a claustrophobic tech-tinged nightmare

By Hannah Strong

Pascal Plante's haunting drama examines the dark reality of the true crime industrial complex in elegant and austere fashion.

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Only the River Flows review – a spellbinding nightmare

By Josh Slater-Williams

A detective is haunted by a murder case he can't crack in Wei Shujun's unsettling crime drama.

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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – generic cop flick falls flat

By David Jenkins

Eddie Murphy hits the nostalgia circuit with this depressing, algorithmic homage to the sparkling 1984 original.

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Kill review – a bumpy ride along parallel tracks of heroism and villainy

By Anton Bitel

A young man sets out to save his true love and ends up caught in a bloody battle aboard a train in Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's riotous actioner.

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MaXXXine review – it kinda suxxx

By David Jenkins

Mia Goth’s porn starlet cleans up her CV with a bloody vengeance in this underwhelming and overreaching horror threequel.

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The Bikeriders review – a slow but enveloping saga

By Rogan Graham

Jeff Nichols' drama based on Danny Lyon’s photobook about a 1960s Chicago motorcycle gang finally cruises into cinemas.

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Love Lies Bleeding review – hot, dirty, fast, combustible

By Hannah Strong

Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brien are on fire as star-crossed lovers who get into a sweaty mess in Rose Glass's lurid '80s throwback thriller.

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The Delinquents review – comic twist on classic crime saga

By David Jenkins

The worst criminals in the world find deeper meaning in their lives in this hilarious odyssey from Rodrigo Moreno.

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Drive-Away Dolls review – a future midnight screening staple

By Esther Rosenfield

Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in a delightfully daffy road movie, written by Ethan Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke.

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Wicked Little Letters review – a flimsy comic farce

By David Jenkins

Olivia Colman is hampered by thin material in this overly-quaint parochial Britcom which contains a fair bit of swearing.

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The Settlers review – a brutally violent anti-western

By David Jenkins

This haunting debut by Felipe Gálvez Haberle dismantles the violent colonial trappings of the classic western.

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Anatomy of a Fall review – Sandra Hüller is one of the finest to ever do it

By David Jenkins

A woman has to stand trial after her husband dies in suspicious circumstances in Justine Triet's compelling courtroom drama.

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The Killer review – throwback to the golden age of pulp fiction

By Hannah Strong

Michael Fassbender plays a contract killer suffering some professional setbacks in David Fincher's lean, mean new thriller.

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Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s prestige epic

By David Jenkins

Martin Scorsese’s wistful remembrance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seriousness and low spectacle.

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Reptile review – less “whodunit”, more “who cares?”

By Charles Bramesco

Music video mainstay Grant Singer makes the leap to features with this real estate-based detective thriller, but the results are disappointingly underwhelming.

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