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Possessor

By Leila Latif

Brandon Cronenberg follows up his impressive debut Antiviral with a visceral slice of hallucinatory ultraviolence.

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Spree

By Hannah Strong

Joe Keery stars as an aspiring streamer driven to extremes in his never-ending quest for viral fame.

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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula

By Leslie Byron Pitt

Yeon Sang-ho’s sequel-of-sorts to his breakout zombie hit fails to deliver the gut punch of its predecessor.

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The Burnt Orange Heresy

By David Jenkins

This austere artworld thriller, starring Elizabeth Debicki and Claes Bang, could’ve done with a little more humour.

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Cordelia

By Leila Latif

Sporadically absorbing psychodrama in which a traumatised woman has a fling with her mysterious neighbour.

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His House

By Anton Bitel

Generational trauma and a fear of the unknown power Remi Weekes’ bone-chilling haunted house horror.

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The Devil All the Time

By Hannah Strong

Antonio Campos’ star-jammed Southern potboiler fails to capture the poetic misery of Donald Ray Pollock’s source novel.

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I’m Thinking of Ending Things

By Hannah Strong

Charlie Kaufman presents a mind-bending psychodrama about a young woman’s journey to meet her boyfriend’s parents.

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Back Roads

By Charles Bramesco

Alex Pettyfer marks his directorial debut in inauspicious fashion with this lurid family incest thriller.

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7500

By Charles Bramesco

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a besieged pilot in this airborne thriller from German director Patrick Vollrath.

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The Whistlers

By David Jenkins

Double, triple and quadruple crosses play a part in this lightly-eccentric gangster thriller from a Romanian great.

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Extraction

By David Jenkins

Chris Hemsworth goes full Rambo in this slick, soulless shoot-em-up penned by Joe Russo.

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Bacurau

By Biju Belinky

Directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles skewer modern Brazilian history in this subversive survival thriller.

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Daniel Isn’t Real

By Anton Bitel

A traumatised man summons his former imaginary friend in Adam Egypt Mortimer’s knotty psychological thriller.

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Seberg

By David Jenkins

Kristen Stewart is woefully miscast in Benedict Andrews’ biopic of the late screen icon Jean Seberg.

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21 Bridges

By David Jenkins

This exceptionally poor cop thriller starring Chadwick Boseman prizes leery violence over basic coherence.

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The Report

By Hannah Strong

Scott Z Burns’ vital political drama investigates the CIA’s post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program.

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