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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – lopsided prequel

By David Jenkins

Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth head up this serviceable franchise prequel that divebombs into ignominy and obscurity during its protracted final act.

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May December review – a frothy psychodrama with a lurid bite

By Hannah Strong

Todd Haynes' deliciously dark melodrama sees Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman go head-to-head as a housewife and the woman tasked with playing her in a film.

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Anatomy of a Fall review – Sandra Hüller is one of the finest to ever do it

By David Jenkins

A woman has to stand trial after her husband dies in suspicious circumstances in Justine Triet's compelling courtroom drama.

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The Eternal Memory – Intimate, meandering doc

By David Jenkins

A sentimental docu-portrait of a Chilean journalist, famed for his reporting on Pinochet's atrocities, whose own memory is leaving him.

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Give Me Pity! review – an experimental, esoteric extravaganza

By Marina Ashioti

A young woman's dream gig on television descends into chaos in Amanda Kramer's imaginative new melodrama.

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Dream Scenario review – easy to enjoy, harder to remember

By Mark Asch

Nicolas Cage plays an otherwise unremarkable college professor who unexpectedly finds himself appearing in peoples' dreams in Kristoffer Borgli's latest satire.

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Bottoms review – undercooked, unfunny teen romance

By Hannah Strong

Two unpopular lesbians attempt to start a fight club at their high school in Emma Seligman's disappointing follow-up to Shiva Baby.

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On the Adamant review – A hushed, humanistic, prize-winning doc

By David Jenkins

French documentarian Nicolas Philibert returns with a gentle, deeply moving chronicle of a floating hospital in Paris.

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The Royal Hotel review – harrowing, but doesn’t burrow under the skin

By Mark Asch

More cinema of ominous discomfort from Kitty Green as she takes us to an out-of-the-way Australian boozer for some low-boiling violence.

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Fingernails review – lightly effective despite a flawed premise

By David Jenkins

The barroom love-tester is God in this gentle sci-fi comedy with Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley as working stiffs at a scientific institute for love.

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How to Have Sex review – a striking, unsettling debut

By Hannah Strong

A group of teenage girls embark on a wild post-exam holiday in Molly Manning Walker's evocative feature debut.

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Typist Artist Pirate King review – cleverly picks apart biopic clichés

By David Jenkins

Carol Morley constructs a creative tribute to the artist Audrey Amiss, who created thousands of artworks but remained mostly unknown until her death in 2013.

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The Killer review – throwback to the golden age of pulp fiction

By Hannah Strong

Michael Fassbender plays a contract killer suffering some professional setbacks in David Fincher's lean, mean new thriller.

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Cat Person review – sorry, I’m allergic

By Hannah Strong

This twisted tale of gender politics based on Kristen Roupenian's 2017 short story is a major letdown in conception and execution.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s – nonsensical robo-slasher trash

By David Jenkins

What appears as a fun robotic slasher lark turns out to be a deathly dull rip-off of various trauma-based horror yarns which fails to deliver in either the serious or silly stakes.

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Doctor Jekyll review – gives Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing a run for their money

By Lillian Crawford

Hammer Horror returns with a genderflipped take on Robert Louis Stevenson's iconic novel, starring Eddie Izzard as a leading figure of the pharmaceutical industry with a dark secret.

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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed review – gossipy, entertaining look at a mythological man

By Patrick Sproull

Stephen Kijak speaks to Rock Hudson's friends and lovers to build a loving – but perhaps a little one-note – portrait of a Hollywood star.

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Foe review – bewitching and terrifyingly plausible

By Leila Latif

Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre star in Garth Davies' unnerving sci-fi drama, based on Iain Reid's novel about a couple's disturbed existence in an America ravaged by climate change.

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