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White Riot

By Adam Woodward

The story of how Rock Against Racism combatted fascism in ’70s Britain has some disturbing contemporary parallels.

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Max Richter’s Sleep

By Thomas Hobbs

Max Richter’s eight-hour concept album is brought to life via Natalie Johns’s immersive concert film.

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Beastie Boys Story

By Charles Bramesco

How Brooklyn’s finest changed the rap game, as told by the group’s two surviving members.

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Cats

By Hannah Strong

Taylor Swift, TS Eliot and Digital Fur Technology combine to disastrous effect in this feline musical folly.

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Tommy (1975)

By BP Flanagan

Back in cinemas courtesy of the BFI, this adaptation of The Who’s rock opera is as wildly entertaining as ever.

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A Dog Called Money

By David Jenkins

Seamus Murphy’s globetrotting musical travelogue with PJ Harvey is a self-defeating creative exercise.

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Mystify: Michael Hutchence

By Trevor Johnston

This tender portrait of the exuberant INXS frontman avoids tabloid hysteria in its search for a fragile soul.

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Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

By BP Flanagan

Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s timeless musical remains an effervescent, life-affirming wonder.

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Hitsville: The Making of Motown

By Adam Woodward

Berry Gordy leads a roster of iconic artists in paying tribute to one of the most successful record companies of the 20th century.

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Judy

By David Jenkins

Renée Zellweger returns from the wilderness with a performance of awe-striking confidence and emotion.

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Her Smell

By Hannah Strong

Elisabeth Moss is a punk-rock musician spinning out of control in Alex Ross Perry's latest.

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La Flor

By Matt Thrift

An epic in the literal sense of the world. Mariano Llinás goes long with this thrilling paean to genre cinema through the ages.

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Leto

By Iana Murray

A Leningrad rock star takes centre stage in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Soviet-era tale of youth in revolt.

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Blinded by the Light

By Tom Huddleston

Gurinder Chadha’s sentimental coming-of-ager charts a British-Pakistani teen’s fixation with Bruce Springsteen.

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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

By Ed Gibbs

Documentarian Nick Broomfield shows his romantic side with this touching portrait of Leonard Cohen and his muse.

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Yesterday

By David Jenkins

The Beatles’ sublime songbook is the subject of this sadly underpowered and incurious romantic Britcom.

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Mari

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Bobbi Jene Smith shines in this intimate dance-drama from first-time writer/director Georgia Parris.

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