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Bad Education

By Hannah Strong

Hugh Jackman plays a tricksy teacher in director Cory Finley’s pitch-black classroom comedy.

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The Old Guard

By Hannah Strong

Netflix eyes up a superhero franchise to call their own with Gina Prince-Bythewood's entertaining action epic.

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Litigante

By David Jenkins

A moving account of a mother trying desperately to balance a scandal at work and a health drama at home.

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Finding the Way Back

By Hannah Strong

Ben Affleck exorcises some personal demons in this sometimes effective basketball drama.

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Back Roads

By Charles Bramesco

Alex Pettyfer marks his directorial debut in inauspicious fashion with this lurid family incest thriller.

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A White, White Day

By Trevor Johnston

A police chief’s suspicion turns into an obsession in this chilly Icelandic drama from Hlynur Palmason.

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Family Romance, LLC

By Tom Bond

Werner Herzog delves into the strange world of a Japanese agency which specialises in artifice.

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The Booksellers

By Anna Bogutskaya

The curious world of rare book sellers is the subject of this documentary from director DW Young.

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Carmine Street Guitars

By Adam Woodward

Director Ron Mann takes us on an intimate tour of a legendary Greenwich Village music shop.

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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

By David Jenkins

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are the Icelandic bar band who accidentally make it big in this occasionally effective comedy.

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Athlete A

By Hannah Strong

Maggie Nichols and a raft of former gymnasts detail the sexual abuse they suffered within USA Gymnastics at the hands of disgraced doctor Larry Nassar.

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7500

By Charles Bramesco

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a besieged pilot in this airborne thriller from German director Patrick Vollrath.

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Citizens of the World

By David Jenkins

A light, frisky Italian comedy about three old geezers looking to leave Rome for a more fulfilling life.

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Da 5 Bloods

By Leila Latif

Spike Lee tackles black trauma, white saviourism and the ingloriousness of war in this searing Vietnam epic.

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The King of Staten Island

By Hannah Strong

Pete Davidson fictionalises his own adolescence in Judd Apatow's warmest bro comedy to date.

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Days of the Bagnold Summer

By David Jenkins

This melancholy comic character portrait of an emotionally estranged mother and son falls in its final act.

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Guest of Honour

By David Jenkins

David Thewlis as a finicky health inspector is the high point of this otherwise bizarre and overwrought melodrama.

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The Uncertain Kingdom

By Thomas Hobbs

This anthology of 20 short films presents an interesting but imbalanced cross-section of modern British life.

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