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The Accountant 2 review – tonally wild and uneven but oddly sweet

By Hannah Strong

Ben Affleck's autistic hitman with a gift for numbers returns in Gavin O'Connor's mismatched action thriller.

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Cloud review – all-time bleakest episode of Only Fools and Horses

By Josh Slater-Williams

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest treads similar thematic territory to his prescient 2001 cyberhorror, through the prism of an e-commerce, vengeance-fuelled thriller.

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Sinners review – links the past and present with music and blood

By Kambole Campbell

Finally free from the Marvel machine, Ryan Coogler delivers the goods and then some with his music-powered, genre-splicing latest.

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The Amateur review – extremely solid, extremely unspectacular

By David Jenkins

Rami Malek struggles in this boilerplate thriller as a CIA operative out to kill the men that murdered his wife.

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Drop review – a first date with no chemistry

By Hannah Strong

A domestic abuse survivor finds herself on the first date from hell in Christopher Landon's phone-based thriller.

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Death of a Unicorn review – goodbye horses, good riddance

By Billie Walker

Alex Scharfman rallies together a cast stacked with comedic actors, but the result of this dull ‘Eat the Rich’ flick misses the mark.

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The Woman in the Yard review – forgettable ghostly horror

By Hannah Strong

A grieving family find themselves with an unwanted house guest in the latest underwhelming thriller from journeyman director Jaume Collet-Serra.

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Misericordia review – Chabrol would have approved

By Thomas Dawson

Alain Guiraudie defies neat categorisation with his shapeshifting eighth feature about morality, crime and queer desire.

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Novocaine review – no pain, no gain

By Hannah Strong

Jack Quaid delivers a charming performance as a man incapable of feeling pain in Dan Berk and Robert Olsen's ultraviolent action-comedy.

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A Working Man review – a dire, forgettable actioner

By Hannah Strong

Even Jason Statham looks bored by his latest hard man turn in Davey Ayer's uninspired adaptation of Chuck Dixon's novel Levon's Trade.

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Santosh review – carefully draws you into its dismal intrigue

By David Jenkins

Shahana Goswami stars as a widow who inherits her late husband’s police officer position in Sandhya Suri’s sharp fiction debut.

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Marching Powder review – a proper, proper gaffe

By Adam Woodward

Nick Love and Danny Dyer are back with yet another boorish, small-minded take on the football hooligan genre.

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To A Land Unknown review – a brilliantly acted tale of moral complexity

By Marina Ashioti

Two Palestinian refugees navigate the seedy underbelly of Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s compelling fiction feature debut.

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig review – a melodrama of resistance

By Mark Asch

An Iranian judge appointed to Tehran's Revolutionary Court grapples with dissent both at work and at home in Mohammad Rasoulof’s politically charged thriller.

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Companion review – no thrills, only spills in this AI apologia

By Hannah Strong

Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star as a young couple whose weekend away uncovers difficult truths about their relationship in Drew Hancock's sci-fi thriller.

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Presence review – an enjoyably swift chiller

By Manuela Lazic

Steven Soderbergh plays with the cinematic form to craft a compelling story about family dynamics and grief.

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Babygirl review – intelligent, elegant adult filmmaking

By Hannah Strong

Halina Reijn's psychodrama sees Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson go toe-to-toe as a CEO and an intern who become embroiled in a complex illicit affair.

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