Reviews

Anthropoid

By Lauren Thompson

Stick with this World War Two-set assassination thriller – a dull start gives way to a heart-racing climax.

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The Blue Room

By David Jenkins

The always exceptional Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in this compelling literary noir.

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Hell or High Water

By Manuela Lazic

Jeff Bridges gives his best performance in years in this timely crime caper from David Mackenzie.

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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

By Ed Gibbs

The Fab Four’s meteoric rise from local grafters to global game-changers is relived in Ron Howard’s emotive doc.

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Los Sures

By Poppy Doran

This evocative 1984 doc about life in Williamsburg, New York, shows the extent of 21st century gentrification.

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The 9th Life of Louis Drax

By Poppy Doran

The director of Horns returns with an equally jarring genre mash-up movie based on a bestselling fantasy novel.

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Sausage Party

By Adam Woodward

It's the animated, existentially-inclined talking junk food comedy the world has been waiting for.

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Jim: The James Foley Story

By Catherine Karellis

Seek out this troubling study of a man who sacrificed his life to take pictures in highly dangerous locations.

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Café Society

By David Jenkins

Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg lay on the old-school charm in Woody Allen’s Golden Age Hollywood satire.

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Things to Come

By David Jenkins

Director Mia Hansen-Løve delivers something wonderful and somewhat unexpected – a film about cats.

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Brotherhood

By Poppy Doran

Noel Clarke gets in another spot of gangland bother in this solid second sequel.

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War Dogs

By David Jenkins

Miles Teller and Jonah Hill are two jacked-up arms dealers in Todd Phillips underwhelming true-to-life caper.

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Julieta

By David Jenkins

Pedro Almodóvar is back to his very best with this beautiful, quietly devastating portrait of a broken woman.

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Gary Numan: Android in La La Land

By Josh Slater-Williams

The electro pop pioneer opens up his home and his studio in this intimate if uneven documentary profile.

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

By David Jenkins

The high-rolling times of apocryphal teen idol Conner4Real make for a maddeningly shallow movie experience.

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Behemoth

By David Jenkins

The poetry and horror of globalisation and manual labour are beautifully evoked in this haunting doc-fiction hybrid.

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The Childhood of a Leader

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Actor Brady Corbet moves behind the camera for this bold, baroque exploration into the roots of political evil.

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Tickled

By David Jenkins

A search for the inventor of competitive internet tickling gets very dark very quickly.

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