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The Blackening review – a novel take on the horror parody

By Cheyenne Bunsie

A group of friends head for a cabin in the woods only to face off with a killer in this fresh horror spoof, from the writer of Girls Trip.

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Talk to Me review – visually and emotionally brutal horror

By Katherine McLaughlin

YouTube duo Michael and Danny Philippou make the ambitious leap to feature filmmaking with a thoroughly disturbing, uncompromising horror.

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Oppenheimer review – Cillian Murphy’s finest hour

By David Jenkins

This combustible and relentlessly-paced biography of the “father of the the atomic bomb” is a contender for Christopher Nolan’s best film.

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

By Adam Woodward

Tom Cruise and co gear up for another high-stakes mission, but it’s diminishing returns amid all the ambitious action.

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La Syndicaliste

By Lillian Crawford

Isabelle Huppert stars as the head union representative of a multinational nuclear power company in Jean-Paul Salomé’s corporate drama.

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Master Gardener

By Hannah Strong

Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist with a troubled past in Paul Schrader's beautiful but underwhelming drama.

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By Hannah Strong

An ensemble of radical climate activists attempt to sabotage an oil pipeline in Daniel Goldhaber's environmentalist action-thriller.

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Missing

By Alison Rumfitt

Storm Reid anchors an enjoyable, twisty thriller that leaves an unfortunate sour taste in the mouth.

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Pacifiction

By David Jenkins

The Polynesian island of Tahiti represents a tropical purgatory for the French colonists in Albert Serra’s apocalyptic political thriller.

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Cairo Conspiracy

By Charles Bramesco

Tarik Saleh’s latest sees the election of a new Grand Imam take place in Egypt’s most prestigious university for Islamic scholarship.

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The Pope’s Exorcist

By Hannah Strong

Russell Crowe plays a priest charged by the Vatican with driving out demons in Julius Avery's underwhelming religious horror.

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John Wick: Chapter 4

By Kambole Campbell

Keanu Reeves returns as the international assassin known as 'Baba Yaga', facing new enemies as he battles his way to redemption.

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The Beasts

By Anton Bitel

Neighbourly hostility abounds in Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen's latest psychological thriller, set in the Galician countryside.

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Scream VI

By Anton Bitel

Business as usual – albeit with a side of Big Apple – for the long-running meta-slasher franchise with enough sass to get it across the finish line.

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Knock at the Cabin

By Hannah Strong

A family trying to enjoy a rural vacation find themselves faced with an impossible choice in M Night Shyamalan's new apocalypse thriller.

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Plane

By Rafa Sales Ross

Gerard Butler plays a pilot whose plane goes down in a conflict zone in Jean-François Richet's surprisingly satisfying thriller.

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Holy Spider

By David Jenkins

Ali Abbasi crafts a thriller ripped from the headlines in this story of 'The Spider Killer' who targeted female sex workers in Mashhad, Iran.

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