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Graduation

By Trevor Johnston

Romania’s Cristian Mungiu returns with another understated (and excellent) social drama.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

By David Jenkins

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s subversive romantic masterpiece returns ahead of a full BFI retrospective.

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Free Fire

By David Jenkins

The myth of diplomacy is the key ingredient of a hot lead salad in Ben Wheatley’s wickedly funny pistol opera.

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Ghost in the Shell

By David Jenkins

All the slick CG in the galaxy can’t save this mind-numbing sci-fi noir starring Scarlett Johansson as a femme cyborg.

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The Void

By Ian Mantgani

Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski’s cosmic horror-thriller fails to live up to its initial promise.

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Smurfs: The Lost Village

By David Jenkins

Here we smurfing go again...

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The Eyes of My Mother

By Dan Einav

There’s a twisted Freudian logic behind this maternal horror from Nicolas Pesce.

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The Age of Shadows

By John Wadsworth

Wily resistance fighters take on wicked foreign occupiers in this breathless period thriller set in 1920s Korea.

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All This Panic

By Gabriela Helfet

A group of high school students takes centre stage in Jenny Gage’s seen-it-all-before documentary.

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Life

By Mike McCahill

Mars attacks in this underpowered creature feature with a crew of A-listers trapped on the International Space Station.

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Power Rangers

By David Jenkins

Angel Grove’s finest are dragged into the 21st century in this glossy, respectable reboot.

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The Lost City of Z

By Matt Thrift

James Gray channels Joseph Conrad in this immaculately-crafted but lacklustre epic.

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Aquarius

By Ian Barr

Brazilian writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with a highly original and unusual film about nostalgia.

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A Silent Voice

By Michael Leader

Don’t miss this quietly affecting coming-of-ager from anime director Naoko Yamada.

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The Salesman

By Mallory Andrews

Asghar Farhadi offers another astute look at contemporary Iranian society in this compelling relationship drama.

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Personal Shopper

By Manuela Lazic

Kristen Stewart excels in this strange, surprising and occasionally sublime film from Olivier Assayas.

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Dancer

By Lena Hanafy

This solid doc tells the the rags to riches back to rags back to riches tale of ballet-dancing bad boy, Sergei Polunin.

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Burning Sands

By John Wadsworth

Frat boy hazing becomes a metaphor for slavery in this muddled drama from director Gerard McMurray.

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