Fantasy

Renfield

By Hannah Strong

Nicholas Hoult plays Count Dracula’s long-suffering servant in Chris McKay’s underwhelming horror-comedy.

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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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The Five Devils

By David Jenkins

Léa Mysius crafts an enigmatic tale about a young girl with a magical sense of smell in her auspicious second feature.

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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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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

By Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

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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Cette Maison

By Marina Ashioti

Miryam Charles' debut is a stunning drama that takes direct inspiration from her cousin's unexpected death.

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Inu-Oh

By Daniel Schindel

A dancer and a musician form a unique friendship in Masaaki Yuasa's fantastical animated musical.

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Strawberry Mansion

By Charles Bramesco

A dream auditor becomes caught up with an ageing eccentric in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney's highly imaginative feature.

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Three Thousand Years of Longing

By Catherine Bray

Mad Max director George Miller returns to the big screen with an adaptation of modern-day fable The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye.

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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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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

By Hannah Strong

Director Sam Raimi injects some much needed personality into Marvel’s latest brand-building exercise.

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Belle

By Hannah Strong

A tale as old as time gets a cyberspace makeover in Mamoru Hosoda’s reimagining of Beauty and the Beast.

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Titane

By Sam Bodrojan

All hail the new flesh in Julia Ducournau’s dreamlike fable of a fractured young dancer grappling with the fire inside her.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

By Hannah Strong

Tom Holland’s third solo Spidey outing brings some familiar faces to the party, but we’ve seen it all before.

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Petite Maman

By Aimee Knight

Céline Sciamma puts a time-loop spin on the classic coming-of-age tale with this gentle family fairy tale.

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Eternals

By David Jenkins

Chloé Zhao remixes the Marvel Cinematic Universe template with this ethereal take on the classic superhero saga.

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Last Night in Soho

By David Jenkins

This time-travelling neo-giallo from Edgar Wright contains a few stunning sequences, but flubs the final act.

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