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Empire of Light

by David Jenkins

Sam Mendes recruits Olivia Col­man and Michael Ward for this mawk­ish tale of seafront woes and the heal­ing pow­er of movies.

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Operation Mincemeat

by David Jenkins

Col­in Firth and Matthew Mac­fadyen team up to foil a Nazi plot in this like­able World War Two caper.

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Supernova

by David Jenkins

Stan­ley Tuc­ci and Col­in Firth are on career-best form in Har­ry Macqueen’s poignant road movie romance.

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1917

by Greg Wetherall

Sam Mendes’ grip­ping World War One dra­ma is light on plot but dis­plays plen­ty of tech­ni­cal panache.

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Kursk: The Last Mission

by Anton Bitel

Thomas Vin­ter­berg recon­structs the K‑141 Kursk sub­ma­rine dis­as­ter but throws in a few too many gimmicks.

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The Happy Prince

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Rupert Everett hams it up in this uneven biopic about the final years of Oscar Wilde.

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The Mercy

by David Jenkins

Col­in Firth heads for the open ocean in this mys­te­ri­ous dra­ma from British writer/​director James Marsh.

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle

by Adam Woodward

Matthew Vaughn’s dis­as­trous spy spoof­ing sequel is the film Brex­it Britain (prob­a­bly) deserves.

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Bridget Jones’s Baby

by Adam Woodward

Renée Zell­weger is back to her breezy, lov­able best in this tri­umphant sec­ond sequel.

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Kingsman: The Secret Service

by Adam Woodward

Matthew Vaughn grabs the tra­di­tion­al spy movie by its tai­lored shirt and gives it a good slap.

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Review

Magic in the Moonlight

by David Ehrlich

Woody Allen effort­less­ly does Woody Allen in a light­weight, none-too-hilar­i­ous peri­od comedy.

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The King’s Speech

by Matt Bochenski

Not just one of the most enter­tain­ing British films in years, but one of the most intrigu­ing, too.

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