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Five Feet Apart

By Charles Bramesco

Two terminally-ill teens fall in love in this all-the-feels ‘rom-traum’ from director Justin Baldoni.

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Benjamin

By Caitlin Quinlan

Simon Amstell’s debut theatrical feature offers a perfect blend of comedy and tragedy.

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Ben Is Back

By Ella Kemp

Lucas Hedges plays a teenage drug addict who attempts to reconcile with his mother.

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Girl

By David Jenkins

Lukas Dhont’s debut feature chronicles a young trans character’s difficult coming-of-age.

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Love, Death & Robots

By Charles Bramesco

This NSFW animated anthology sees Tim Miller and David Fincher team up to disastrous effect.

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Under the Silver Lake

By David Jenkins

Andrew Garfield disappears down the rabbit hole in David Robert Mitchell’s zany LA noir.

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Maiden

By Josh Slater-Williams

This timely documentary recounts the inspiring story of a female sailing crew’s round-the-world voyage.

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Everybody Knows

By Adam Woodward

Fiery central performances from Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem fuel this slowburn mystery from Asghar Farhadi.

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Ray & Liz

By David Jenkins

Richard Billingham offers a bracingly honest portrait of life in a Birmingham council flat.

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Babylon (1980)

By David Jenkins

Brooklyn’s BAM hosts the first ever US screenings of Franco Rosso’s reggae classic.

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Triple Frontier

By Hannah Strong

JC Chandor’s South American action-thriller boasts a stellar cast, but it’s all brawn and no brains.

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The Kindergarten Teacher

By Lillian Crawford

Maggie Gyllenhaal is compelling in this rich character study about a mentor and her protégé.

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Captain Marvel

By Hannah Strong

Brie Larson is great as Carol Danvers, but we’d hoped for slightly more from Marvel’s first female solo superhero movie.

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Rosie

By David Jenkins

An evicted Dublin family are left stranded in this deeply moving and beautifully restrained drama.

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Border

By Anton Bitel

A customs officer falls in love with a strange traveller in Ali Abbasi’s twisted modern romance.

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Hannah

By Hannah Strong

Charlotte Rampling delivers a remarkable performance in this melancholy study of grief.

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Foxtrot

By David Jenkins

Corruption reigns free on the Israel/Palestine border in this intriguing feature from Samuel Maoz.

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Of Love and Law

By David Jenkins

Married gay lawyers in Osaka fight everyday injustice in this delightful, deadpan documentary.

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