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The Guest

By David Jenkins

Dan Stevens is a strange visitor who ends up being a dull visitor in Adam Wingard’s underwhelming genre mash-up.

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Obvious Child

By Oliver Lyttelton

Actor and stand-up Jenny Slate shines in this romantic comedy which faces up to the realities of abortion.

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Night Moves

By David Jenkins

Kelly Reichardt returns with an extremely cool and collected heist movie with Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning.

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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

By Adam Woodward

The sad untimely death of precocious internet maven Aaron Schwartz is the focus of this chilling doc.

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Two Days, One Night

By David Jenkins

If you only do one thing this year, make sure you catch this shattering masterpiece by the Dardenne brothers.

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Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For

By David Ehrlich

It’s unasked for sequel time (again), as Robert Rodriguez flogs the dead CG horse that is the Sin City franchise.

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Lucy

By David Ehrlich

Who remembers the last good Luc Besson movie? Time to reset that particular clock, as he’s returned with a stormer.

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The Rover

By David Jenkins

David Michôd emerges from the lion’s den and leaps directly into the furnace for his brilliant second feature.

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The Expendables 3

By David Jenkins

A cast of thousands coalesce for this jolly, bloodless third sortie by those irrepressible, elderly Expendables.

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Welcome to New York

By Jordan Cronk

The voracious sexual appetite of Dominique Strauss-Kahn makes the basis for Abel Ferrara’s brilliant, provocative new film.

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Lilting

By Sophie Ivan

Hong Khaou’s debut feature is a hushed essay on coping with grief, sexuality and the cultural/generational divide.

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Mood Indigo

By Katherine McLaughlin

Michel Gondry’s woozy take on an ‘unfilmable’ Boris Vian novel offers a cloudburst of astonishing visuals.

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The Deer Hunter (1978)

By David Jenkins

Mao! Mao! Mao! Michael Cimino invites horrific ’Nam flashbacks in his gruelling ’78 opus.

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

By Paul Fairclough

This latest instalment in the Apes franchise, about the preservation of humanity, lacks any genuine human characters.

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Hercules

By Adam Lee Davies

Director Brett Ratner’s take on Zeus’ most ripped offspring is a bumbling, dizzy-headed chore.

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Joe

By Nick Newman

Nicolas Cage is gifted one of his best roles in years as an ex-alcoholic who take a young drifter under his wing.

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The Purge: Anarchy

By David Ehrlich

This rush-job sequel does a stirling job of consistently bungling its intriguing premise.

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Boyhood

By Vadim Rizov

Ellar Coltrane grows up in public as the central, glorious spectacle in Richard Linklater's masterpiece.

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