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Monsters and Men

By Katherine McLaughlin

John David Washington is a cop struggling to come to terms with systematic racism in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s debut feature.

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Glass

By Hannah Strong

M Night Shyamalan gets the gang back together for the bizarre finale to his “Eastrail 177 Trilogy”.

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Mary Queen of Scots

By David Jenkins

Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie play duelling monarchs in this lifeless period piece.

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Hale County This Morning, This Evening

By Matt Turner

Filmmaker RaMell Ross weaves a transcendental tapestry of black lives in present-day Alabama.

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Laura (1944)

By Matt Thrift

A new Blu-ray edition provides an opportunity to revisit Otto Preminger’s slyly subversive noir masterpiece.

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Beautiful Boy

By Hannah Strong

Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet play a father and son pushed to the edge in this tender drug addiction drama.

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The House by the Sea

By Rory Marsh

Director Robert Guédiguian brings together a familiar cast for this introspective coastal drama.

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The Upside

By Thomas Hobbs

Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart pair up for a wholly unnecessary remake of French dramedy The Intouchables.

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Island of the Hungry Ghosts

By David Jenkins

Refugees and migrating crabs are the focus of this atmospheric doc which takes place on Christmas Island.

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The Front Runner

By Adam Nayman

If nothing else, this tawdry political drama proves that Jason Reitman is no Steven Spielberg.

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Colette

By Beth Webb

Keira Knightley plays the eponymous French author in a biopic which doesn’t match the imagination of its subject.

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One Cut of the Dead

By Michael Leader

This madcap meta-horror from Japan’s Shin’ichirô Ueda breathes new life into the zombie genre.

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The 12th Man

By Rory Marsh

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers delivers a scene-stealing turn in this chilly World War Two survival drama.

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An Impossible Love

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Catherine Corsini adapts Christine Angot to captivating effect in this Châteauroux-set romantic drama.

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Life Itself

By Hannah Strong

Dan Fogelman’s starry New York soap opera is a staggering waste of talent and money.

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Welcome to Marwen

By Adam Woodward

Robert Zemeckis and Steve Carell bring heart and humour to the story of Mark Hogancamp, but offer little insight.

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The Favourite

By David Jenkins

Olivia Colman is sublime as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist period tragicomedy.

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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

By Hannah Strong

A family gathering to ring in the new year spells trouble in the latest from Ben Wheatley.

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