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Kids in Love

By Josh Slater-Williams

Cara Delevingne and Will Poulter star in this bland bohemian coming-of-ager from Chris Foggin.

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Elvis & Nixon

By Elena Lazic

A lack of contextual depth and contrasting acting styles undermines this offbeat apolitical comedy.

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Independence Day: Resurgence

By Adam Woodward

Roland Emmerich’s shamelessly sentimental franchise reboot is big, dumb and a total blast.

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The Secret Life of Pets

By Adam Woodward

This animated adventure from the makers of Minions fails to live up to its initial promise.

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Long Way North

By Sophie Yapp

This visually lustrous animated adventure film is hamstrung by its simplistic central story.

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The Violators

By David Jenkins

Coolly precise Brit debut whose grim and grotesque take on social realism always feels too artificial.

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Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)

By Mathilde Dumazet

Hot sex and cold moralising come together in this strange examination of how French teens spend their downtime.

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The Keeping Room

By Christina Newland

Brit Marling leads a band of sisters in arms in this gritty American Civil War drama.

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Where You’re Meant to Be

By Adam Woodward

Arab Strap’s Aidan Moffat tours Scotland in the name of cultural preservation. The results are unexpectedly profound.

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Tale of Tales

By Trevor Johnston

Matteo Garrone serves up a trio of fabulously gory fantasies with the help of a solid ensemble cast.

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Gods of Egypt

By David Jenkins

Underachieving rather than awful, Alex Proyas’ cornball, CG-driven adventure is tiresomely mad.

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Cemetery of Splendour

By Vadim Rizov

Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns with a stunning meditation on a national and political crisis.

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The Stanford Prison Experiment

By David Jenkins

A robust dramatic rendering of the 1971 psychological experiment conducted in a University basement.

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Learning to Drive

By David Jenkins

Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley make for a likeable pairing in this breezy motoring drama.

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Where to Invade Next

By Emma Simmonds

Michael Moore embarks on a globetrotting cultural gleaning tour in this entertaining pop doc.

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Fire at Sea

By David Jenkins

Europe’s migrant crisis is brought into focus in this quietly thought-provoking documentary.

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Embrace of the Serpent

By Matt Thrift

Ciro Guerra’s psychedelic Amazonian odyssey is one of year’s most potent and strikingly original films.

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Mother’s Day

By David Jenkins

Garry Marshall’s tin-eared greeting card movie extravaganza is so bad it’s almost quite good.

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