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Moneyball

By Dan Stewart

Bennett Miller and Aaron Sorkin combine for the best film about statistics you’re ever likely to see.

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The Deep Blue Sea

By Jason Wood

Terence Davies’ wartime tragi-romance is filmmaking of the highest order.

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Take Shelter

By Adam Woodward

More metaphorical tact would turn Take Shelter from a brisk gale to a force five.

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Wuthering Heights

By Josh Winning

Though passionate and faithful, Andrea Arnold’s film is striking but staggers toward a lethargic climax.

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Oslo, August 31st

By Paul Bradshaw

An astounding achievement, Joachim Trier’s haunting film will stay with you for weeks.

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Weekend

By Paul Weedon

A remarkable feature debut from Andrew Haigh signals an exciting new voice in LGBT cinema.

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The Ides of March

By Jonathan Crocker

George Clooney writes, directs and stars in this superb political ensemble drama.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

By Jason Goodyer

Lynne Ramsay’s first film for nine years is a dizzying visual trip anchored by Tilda Swinton’s superlative central performance.

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

By Jason Goodyer

Like the era it represents, there are highs and lows in director Göran Hugo Olsson’s latest documentary.

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Tyrannosaur

By Matt Bochenski

Paddy Considine’s eloquent, savagely poetic script is grounded in a cinematic idiom of bleached light, bleak estates and broken lives.

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Midnight in Paris

By Adam Woodward

Midnight in Paris isn’t a clutch at yesteryear; it’s a statement that Allen still has something left to say.

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Melancholia

By Jonathan Crocker

There’s something powerful here, but von Trier hasn’t quite managed to force it through the screen.

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Drive

By Matt Bochenski

Nicolas Winding Refn lets demons loose in the City of Angels with gut-wrenching results.

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Warrior

By Adam Woodward

Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton star in this rousing, fiercely acted tale of sibling bonds bruised and bandaged.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

By Adam Woodward

Gary Oldman puts in a career-best shift in this gripping story of duplicity and paranoia.

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Post Mortem

By Laurence Boyce

A unique and weird history lesson created by a director whose star is continually on the rise.

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Attenberg

By Jason Wood

Largely eschewing the shock tactics of Dogtooth, Attenberg is arguably superior and certainly more embraceable.

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Kill List

By Dan Brightmore

British director Ben Wheatley delivers a future classic in the form of this white-knuckle thriller.

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