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The Rule Of Jenny Pen review – a stand-out ageing horror

By Billie Walker

A former judge finds himself confined to a nursing home where a sinister puppet rules the roost in James Ashcroft's effective horror.

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Opus review – off-key pop industry satire misses all its cues

By David Jenkins

John Malkovich is an electro pop god with an axe to grind in this glossy music industry horror-satire by debut director Mark Anthony Green

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Sister Midnight review – a droll, strange, cool freak of a film

By Anton Bitel

Karan Kandhari’s film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses is an unpredictable, genre-bending delight.

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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found review – a vital piece of cine-portraiture

By Lucy Peters

Filmmaker Raoul Peck unearths the searing social realist photographs of an artist whose work was thought to be lost.

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On Falling review – Solidly-made slice of Loachian miserablism

By David Jenkins

The dire lot of a low-paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira.

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Marching Powder review – a proper, proper gaffe

By Adam Woodward

Nick Love and Danny Dyer are back with yet another boorish, small-minded take on the football hooligan genre.

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The Last Showgirl review – dreamy and low-key to a fault

By Mark Asch

Pamela Anderson excels as an over-the-hill Vegas showgirl seeing out her notice period in this low-key, vibey backstage drama from Gia Coppola.

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Mickey 17 review – gross and heartwarming in equal measure

By Hannah Strong

Robert Pattinson stars as a so-called expendable in Bong Joon Ho's hotly anticipated follow-up to Parasite, facing off against perma-tanned megalomaniacs and croissant-shaped creatures.

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I’m Still Here review – memory as resistance

By Rafa Sales Ross

Walter Salles returns to narrative filmmaking with a sensitive depiction of the forced disappearance of former congressman Rubens Paiva, and the devastation his family faced.

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September Says review – uncanny and tender

By Hannah Strong

Two sisters share an unshakable bond in Ariane Labed's uniquely strange feature debut.

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The Monkey review – Theo James goes ape

By Hannah Strong

A cheeky monkey with a violent streak gets Theo James in all sorts of trouble in Osgood Perkins' bloodthirsty horror based on a Stephen King short story.

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I Am Martin Parr review – a one-sided artist portrait

By David Jenkins

An unapologetic hagiography of the famed British photographer whose work chronicles working class leisure time.

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To A Land Unknown review – a brilliantly acted tale of moral complexity

By Marina Ashioti

Two Palestinian refugees navigate the seedy underbelly of Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s compelling fiction feature debut.

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – pleasant but forgettable

By Hannah Strong

Renée Zellweger dons her big knickers again as the frazzled heroine, this time getting her groove back after her husband's death.

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The People’s Joker – you have to see it to believe it

By Violet Lucca

A glorious, multifarious and modern rethink of the coming of age story as filtered through superhero movies, stand-up and the trans experience.

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Cottontail review – Lily Franky gives another stunning performance

By Josh Slater-Williams

Lily Franky stars in this tender tale about a father and son travelling from Tokyo to the Lake District to scatter his late wife's ashes.

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Heart Eyes review – a gimmicky horror fauxmance

By Billie Walker

Two youngsters come a cropper of a very particular masked maniac in Josh Ruben's dismal horror-romance mash-up.

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Memoir of a Snail – a stop-motion marvel with a dark heart

By David Jenkins

The life of a snail-fixated loner plays out as a series of disasters in this stridently emotional animated feature from Australian filmmaker, Adam Elliot.

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