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Aftersun

By Savina Petkova

A young father and his 11-year-old daughter take a holiday to Turkey in Charlotte Wells' touching debut.

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A Bunch of Amateurs

By Marina Ashioti

A charming documentary about Britain’s oldest amateur filmmaking club puts a quintessentially Northern story in the spotlight.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

By Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

Writer/director Ryan Coogler expands his colonialist critique in this epic MCU sequel which also pays moving tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman.

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No Bears

By Rafa Sales Ross

The Iranian master returns with a set of parallel love stories reflecting on superstition and the mechanics of power.

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Cette Maison

By Marina Ashioti

Miryam Charles' debut is a stunning drama that takes direct inspiration from her cousin's unexpected death.

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Return to Dust

By David Jenkins

Li Ruijun's tender, thought-provoking drama is a story about love expressed through action rather than reaction.

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Something in the Dirt

By Anton Bitel

Filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead discover an ominous paranormal entity in their meta fifth feature.

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Neptune Frost

By Charles Bramesco

A group of coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's Afrofuturist musical.

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The Wonder

By Lillian Crawford

Sebastián Lelio’s 19th-century drama dwells in the gothic-bucolic as a nurse watches over a girl who has survived months without food.

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Good Night Oppy

By David Jenkins

Underwhelming and detail-light account of the plucky Mars rover that outlived NASA’s wildest predictions.

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Hunt

By Josh Slater-Williams

Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae stars in his directorial debut, a high-voltage espionage thriller set in 1980s South Korea.

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Call Jane

By Leila Latif

Chicago's Underground Abortion Network and a housewife's unwanted pregnancy lie at the centre of Phyllis Nagy's directorial debut.

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Living

By Ella Kemp

Oliver Hermanus teams up with Kazuo Ishiguro and Bill Nighy for a British reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece, Ikiru.

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Bros

By Hannah Strong

Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller's gay rom-com isn't as groundbreaking or as romantic as it likes to think it is.

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Wendell & Wild

By Saffron Maeve

Stop motion legend Henry Selick teams up with comedy masterminds Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key for his much anticipated return to the big screen.

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Triangle of Sadness

By Hannah Strong

Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund takes us aboard the luxury cruise from hell in his latest over-the-top satire.

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Barbarian

By Charles Bramesco

A holiday rental turns into a nightmare for a young woman in Zach Cregger's horror debut.

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Ticket to Paradise

By Charles Bramesco

George Clooney and Julia Roberts take to Bali in a hollow-hearted reminder of why the modern romcom is in decline.

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