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Little Trouble Girls review – profoundly sensuous cinema

by Laura Venning

Set in a Catholic school all-girls choir, Urška Djukić’s take on queer yearning and repression adopts a less obvious and more interesting approach to the familiar coming-of-age story.

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Caught Stealing review – Darren Aronofsky gets back in the New York groove

by Marshall Shaffer

Darren Aronofsky taps into his inner New Yorker with a solidly entertaining 1998-set crime thriller starring Austin Butler as his Hitchcockian wrong man.

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The Roses review – Cumberbatch and Colman's chemistry peaks

by Leila Latif

Jay Roach reimagines The War of the Roses and leaves us yearning for an era when mid-budget, starry comedies weren’t such an endangered species.

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The Life Of Chuck review – soliloquy soup

by Billie Walker

Mike Flanagan returns with yet another Stephen King adaptation, but is too busy posturing to offer anything truly substantial.

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Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk review – we must keep Fatma Hassona's memory alive

by Marina Ashioti

Sepideh Farsi’s video calls with the late Palestinian photographer Fatma Hassona vividly document daily life in Gaza under Israel’s unrelenting violence.

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The Regulars review – sweet and relatable

by Oscar Aitchison

Cinema duty manager-turned-filmmaker Fil Freitas chronicles a fictionalised day in the life of the Prince Charles Cinema staff.

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Young Mothers review – jumps from dramatic peak to dramatic peak

by Mark Asch

Belgium’s Dardenne brothers return with a typically emotive film about a group of very young women dealing with the dramas of childbirth.

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Sorry, Baby review – a film about holding on to each small, good thing

by Hannah Strong

A brilliant young academic struggles to come to terms with the aftermath of a sexual assault in Eva Victor’s moving dramedy.

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My Grandmother Trelotótó review – a world of beautiful nostalgic imagery

by Nathan Lewis

Through various creative uses of non-fiction filmmaking, Catarina Ruivo crafts a poetic space to reanimate the memory of her beloved grandmother.

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Nobody 2 review – a quick cash grab

by Oscar Aitchison

Bob Odenkirk is back as suburban dad/deadly assassin Hutch Mansell in in a sequel that, ultimately, nobody will remember.