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Greying middle-aged man with a serious expression, standing in front of a landscape painting.
Review

Beau is Afraid

by Hannah Strong

Joaquin Phoenix plays a chronically nervous man on a mission to get home in Ari Aster’s scattered third feature.

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3
In Retrospect
Sinister figure in dark, menacing expression, glowing eyes, dark tones.
Review

Evil Dead Rise

by David Jenkins

Lee Cronin’s affectionate, gore-caked remix of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead offers an innovative and breathtaking model of how to exhume a beloved genre franchise.

3
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4
In Retrospect
Young woman with long dark hair in a school uniform, standing in a doorway against a bright blue sky with clouds.
Review

Suzume

by Alicia Haddick

Makoto Shinkai’s third feature continues his fantastical vision with a teenage girl who accidentally opens a magical portal, but fails to make the same impact as Your Name and Weathering With You.

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2
In Retrospect
Man with a long, grey beard wearing a black robe in a dimly lit room.
Review

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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In Retrospect
Green frog puppet and blonde female puppet together.
Opinion

Air erases Michael Jordan from his own narrative

by Yasmin Omar

In a dehumanising creative decision, Ben Affleck excludes the iconic basketball player from his Air Jordan origin story. It’s not a good look.
Red graffiti spelling "Mum" on wall, iron bedframe, messy bedroom.
Review

Blue Bag Life

by Marina Ashioti

Rebecca Lloyd-Evans and Lisa Selby’s feature documentary aims to explore the interconnected prisms of addiction and unorthodox motherhood.

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4
In Retrospect
A man wearing blue-tinted glasses and a red and blue jacket sits at a desk in a room with framed photos on the wall.
Review

Air

by Hannah Strong

Ben Affleck returns to the director’s chair, fictionalising the fascinating story of how an iconic shoe was born.

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Animated characters: a plumber in red overalls, a princess in a red dress, and a mushroom-shaped creature.
Review

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

by Michael Leader

Nintendo and Illumination team up to give everyone’s favourite fictional plumber an animated makeover, with soulless results.

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In Retrospect
Vibrant pink and blue fairground with palm trees, flags, and a woman in a pink gingham dress standing in the foreground.
Incoming

Life is plastic and fantastic in the first Barbie trailer

by Charles Bramesco

Margot Robbie dons a great many outfits as the iconic children’s plaything in Greta Gerwig’s technicolour dreamland.
Lone person on chair amid mountainous, rocky landscape with lush vegetation.
Review

Godland

by Josh Slater-Williams

A Danish priest mounts an escapade to Iceland with a camera in hand and a dream of building a church in Hlynur Pálmason’s darkly comic epic.

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In Retrospect