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Frances Ha

By Anton Bitel

Ahoy sexy! In which the great Greta Grewig stakes a convincing claim to the thrown of most loveable living screen actress.

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Blackfish

By Ashley Clark

When Orcas attack! Gabriela Cowperthwaite reveals the seamy underside of family water parks.

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The World’s End

By Adam Woodward

Lagergeddon? The hopocalypse? The bitter end? Edgar Wright and co are back for one final throw of the dice.

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Wadjda

By Rebecca Ellis

A teen girl yearns for a new bike in this groundbreaking, deeply moving comedy-drama from Saudi Arabia.

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The Deep

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

A noirish Icelandic agains-all-odds survival drama about a man who swims away from an epic shipwreck.

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Pacific Rim

By David Jenkins

Guillermo del Toro’s epic homage to classic-era monster movies is a triumph of consummate design and old school romanticism.

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A Field in England

By David Jenkins

Kill List director Ben Wheatley returns with a monochrome drug chimera which won't be to all tastes.

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The Bling Ring

By David Jenkins

Heists and high-fashion coalesce in Sofia Coppola’s subtle and intricate take on teen boredom and victimless crime.

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Now You See Me

By Chris Blohm

A film which proves the theory that if magicians were also bankrobbers, they’d still be pretty stupid.

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The Act of Killing

By David Jenkins

Joshua Oppenheimer mixes the romance of the movies with the horror of genocide in this incredible one-off.

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Hummingbird

By Adam Woodward

Not another Jason Statham movie?! This time he’s a vengeful tramp with a penchant for busting heads.

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Stories We Tell

By Adam Woodward

Director Sarah Polley delivers a bittersweet and compelling autobiographical family portrait.

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Like Someone in Love

By Andrew Schenker

Iranian maestro Abbas Kiarostami heads to Tokyo for this multi-faceted jewel.

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Before Midnight

By David Jenkins

Richard Linklater makes it a trilogy for his beloved walkie-talkie love saga. And this one’s possibly the best of the lot.

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Man of Steel

By Jonathan Crocker

Zack Snyder aspires to something greater with this maxed-out comic book epic, but lays it on a little too thick.

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

By David Jenkins

Werner Herzog’s 1972 masterpiece returns to the big screen, which is a cause for major celebration.

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The Stone Roses: Made of Stone

By David Jenkins

Shane Meadows delivers a roistering film about extreme fandom under the subtle guise of a Stone Roses biography.

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Byzantium

By Anton Bitel

Bloodsuckers hit the beach in Neil Jordan’s woozy and extremely violent British noir.

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