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Close-up of a tiger's face peering through a gap in a curtain, with warm lighting and a yellow background.
Review

Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air

by David Jenkins

Did you hear the one about the guy who acquired a Bengal tiger and kept it in his New York apartment?

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Anticipation
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2
In Retrospect
A man in a blue Star Trek uniform holding a phaser pistol.
Review

Star Trek Beyond

by Anton Bitel

Simon Pegg brings the funny on script detail in this rollicking second sequel in the latest Trek adventure.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Men in boat on choppy turquoise waters, carrying diving equipment.
Review

Chevalier

by David Jenkins

The director of Attenberg returns with a biting study of the male ego in this sea-bound satire.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Animated character with pointy ears, grinning teeth, and a purple flower in its hand against a dark background.
Review

Ice Age: Collision Course

by David Jenkins

Very vanilla fourth sequel to the original animated smash with a major fetish for toilet humour.

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2
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1
In Retrospect
Two men holding cats in a garden with sheep grazing in the background.
Review

Men and Chicken

by Charlie Theobald

Two socially maladjusted brothers search for their father, and happen upon a lair of depravity. It’s funny.

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3
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Intense closeup of a grotesque, bloody human figure with an open, screaming mouth and damaged skin.
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Baskin

by Sophie Yapp

The gore arrives thick and fast in Turkish director Can Evrenol’s inventive horror carve-up.

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3
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Two women smiling and sitting on a red vintage train carriage.
Review

Summertime

by David Jenkins

This ultra conventional lesbian melodrama from French director Catherine Corsini shows that going through the motions still has its pleasures.

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3
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Group of people firing proton packs, emitting colourful energy beams against dark background
Review

Ghostbusters

by David Jenkins

The new Ghostbusters movie is much better than it needed to be, thanks to its stellar (and extremely charming) central cast.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
A bearded man wearing a black hat and brown jacket, standing in a grassy field.
Review

Men Go to Battle

by Matthew Eng

Zachary Treitz’s lo-fi Civil War comedy offers an admirable, inventive take on a stodgy subgenre.

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2
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Two people, a man and a woman, walking together down a city street. The man wears a grey coat and the woman wears a checkered blue coat.
Review

Maggie’s Plan

by Katherine McLaughlin

Greta Gerwig has the time of her life in Rebecca Miller’s shallow portrait of middle-class ennui.

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