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Locke

By David Jenkins

Tom Hardy driving a car for 90 minutes equals riveting drama from director Steven Knight.

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2

By Chris Blohm

Your friendly neighbourhood web-slinger returns for more of the same, albeit with much less charm.

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The Lunchbox

By David Jenkins

A Rolls Royce romantic comedy set in Mumbai that rides on a delectable, bittersweet central turn by Irrfan Khan.

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Calvary

By David Jenkins

The Guard’s Brendan Gleeson and director John Michael McDonagh reunite to deliver one of the year’s best films.

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The Double

By Anton Bitel

Richard Ayoade branches out into steampunk paranoia with this feisty and funny adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella.

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A Story of Children and Film

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

The itinerant and inquisitive cinephile delivers this moving child-based addendum to his mammoth The Story of Film.

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Noah

By Paul Fairclough

Russell Crowe’s surly survivalist fails to keep this Biblical blockbuster from Darren Aronofsky afloat.

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Divergent

By David Jenkins

An exceptional teen girl rises up from the slurry of humanity and goes on to mount a revolution against… you know the drill.

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The Past

By David Jenkins

Tahar Rahim and Bérénice Bejo are on top form in this immaculate study of marital disharmony.

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Muppets Most Wanted

By Adam Lee Davies

The Muppets return to the big screen for more zany antics in this big-hearted creature feature.

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Starred Up

By Adam Woodward

This bruising and brutal jailhouse carve-up rides on the back of an astonishing central turn by Jack O’Connell.

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Under the Skin

By Violet Lucca

Jonathan Glazer’s erotic and philosophically-inclined feminist sci-fi fable is an extraordinary one-off.

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The Invisible War

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

A tough, traumatic investigation into widespread rape in the US army by veteran documentarian Kirby Dick.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

By David Jenkins

Wes Anderson returns with an opulent and strangely moving caper movie.

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Wake in Fright (1971)

By Mark Asch

A meek and mild school teacher spirals into Aussie Hell in this riveting, repellant restoration.

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Non-Stop

By Adam Woodward

More mile-high misadventures as Liam Neeson rolls out his machismo B-movie thing on a packed passenger jet.

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The Godfather: Part II (1974)

By David Jenkins

Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus gets a big screen outing, see it if only to be able to understand The Simpsons better.

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Stranger by the Lake

By David Jenkins

A scintillating and quietly radical gay-cruising murder mystery set in a single, sunny location.

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