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Earwig

By Saffron Maeve

A young girl with ice cubes for teeth comes of age in strange ways in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s disturbing and elliptical latest.

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The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers

By Matt Turner

A fine and necessary portmanteau of British documentaries all made by lesser-known women filmmakers.

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Dashcam

By Erin Brady

Lo-fi genre maestro Rob Savage returns with a truly repellant new variety of horror Scream Queen.

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Bergman Island

By Lillian Crawford

Mia Hansen-Løve’s lilting rumination on art, relationships and cinephilia is one of her most accomplished and moving films to date.

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Elvis

By Anna Bogutskaya

Baz Luhrmann’s sweaty, opulent take on the King of rock ’n’ roll is not a biopic but a fairy tale.

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Luzzu

By Lucy Vipond

A Maltese fisherman grapples with modernity in director Alex Camilleri’s sobering second feature.

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The Bob’s Burgers Movie

By Hannah Strong

The Belcher family discover a sink hole, try to solve a murder and take their burger shop on the road in the feature-length version of their hit animated show.

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a-ha: The Movie

By Josh Slater-Williams

Norway’s favourite synth-pop sons receive the full music biography treatment in this intimate documentary.

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Emergency

By Alicia Haddick

Three college students eager to party end up in a fraught situation in director Carey Williams’ comedy-thriller.

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Top Gun: Maverick

By Jake Cunningham

Tom Cruise smashes the sound barrier once again in this thrilling belated sequel to the beloved ’80s classic.

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Benediction

By Adam Woodward

Terence Davies explores the tragic and complex life of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon in this elegantly moving biopic.

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The Drover’s Wife

By David Jenkins

Leah Purcell writes, directs and stars in this violent psychological western about a Bushwoman defending her lonesome patch.

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Vortex

By Adam Woodward

An elderly Parisian couple struggle with the trials of ageing in Gaspar Noé’s miserable but intriguing new film.

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Father Stu

By Charles Bramesco

A skeptical amateur wrestler finds religion in writer/director Rosalind Ross’ uninspired biopic.

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The Quiet Girl

By Alicia Haddick

A young girl’s difficult home life takes a turn for the better in Colm Bairéad’s impressive debut feature.

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Men

By Hannah Strong

A woman reeling from a personal tragedy embarks on the holiday from hell in Alex Garland’s very British folk horror film.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

By Weiting Liu

A Chinese-American family’s lives are changed forever across multiple universes in Daniels’ ambitious second feature.

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

By Hannah Strong

Director Sam Raimi injects some much needed personality into Marvel’s latest brand-building exercise.

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