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Two animated characters, a young woman with blonde hair and a young man with dark hair, look at the camera against a backdrop of fiery, colourful explosions.
Review

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

by Beth Webb

Dean DeBlois’ beloved ani­mat­ed fran­chise arrives at a daz­zling, emo­tion­al farewell.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Serious-looking person with short, dark hair wearing a black leather jacket.
Review

Destroyer

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Nicole Kid­man suf­fers through pros­thet­ics and a patchy script in Karyn Kusama’s detec­tive noir.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Portrait of a man with a serious expression, wearing a checked jacket against a dark background.
Review

Vice

by Hannah Strong

Adam McKay’s played-for-laughs por­trait of for­mer VP Dick Cheney strays into Bond vil­lain parody.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Two people in dark coats sit on rocks in a forested setting, with one person operating a large camera.
Review

Bergman: A year in a Life

by Phil Concannon

This con­sum­mate doc­u­men­tary sheds new light on the life and career of the late Swedish master.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Man in police uniform looking through car windscreen.
Review

Monsters and Men

by Katherine McLaughlin

John David Wash­ing­ton is a cop strug­gling to come to terms with sys­tem­at­ic racism in Reinal­do Mar­cus Green’s debut feature.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Two men, one with arms crossed sitting on a chair, one seated in meditation pose, both in a pink-tinted room.
Review

Glass

by Hannah Strong

M Night Shya­malan gets the gang back togeth­er for the bizarre finale to his ​“Eas­trail 177 Trilogy”.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Group of medieval-style characters on horseback, dressed in dark armour and capes, with one central female character wearing a blue dress and long red hair.
Review

Mary Queen of Scots

by David Jenkins

Saoirse Ronan and Mar­got Rob­bie play duelling mon­archs in this life­less peri­od piece.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Portrait of a young Black man with a serious expression on his face, illuminated by a warm, reddish light.
Review

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

by Matt Turner

Film­mak­er RaMell Ross weaves a tran­scen­den­tal tapes­try of black lives in present-day Alabama.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Man in hat standing next to woman with curled hair wearing a scarf, in a black and white film noir style image.
Review

Laura (1944)

by Matt Thrift

A new Blu-ray edi­tion pro­vides an oppor­tu­ni­ty to revis­it Otto Preminger’s sly­ly sub­ver­sive noir masterpiece.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
A person wearing glasses and a shawl lying on a bed, their head in their hands, next to a person lying under a blanket on the bed.
Review

Beautiful Boy

by Hannah Strong

Steve Carell and Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met play a father and son pushed to the edge in this ten­der drug addic­tion drama.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect

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