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Review

The Gentlemen

by Hannah Strong

After spend­ing a decade in Hol­ly­wood, Guy Ritchie returns to his gang­ster roots with this all-star crime caper.

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A person wearing a floral print dress and a captain's hat stands in a room with bookshelves and a typewriter on a table.
Review

The Beach Bum

by Hannah Strong

Har­mo­ny Korine and Matthew McConaugh­ey hit the Flori­da Keys for a mad­cap slack­er odyssey.

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Two people, a man with dark curly hair and a woman with long blonde hair, standing on a night-time street.
Review

Serenity

by Adam Woodward

LWLies inter­cepts a telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion between Matthew McConaugh­ey and his agent.

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Review

White Boy Rick

by Caitlin Quinlan

A small­time teenage drug-push­er turns FBI infor­mant in direc­tor Yann Demange’s Detroit-set crime drama.

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The Dark Tower

by Elena Lazic

Idris Elba plays a cos­mic gun­slinger in this tame adap­ta­tion of Stephen King’s fan­ta­sy saga.

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Review

Gold

by David Jenkins

Insane avarice in the 1980s leads a bald­ing Matthew McConaugh­ey into the wilds of Indonesia.

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Review

Sing

by Manuela Lazic

Don’t miss this ani­mat­ed juke­box musi­cal from Son of Ram­bow direc­tor Garth Jennings.

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Free State of Jones

by Adam Woodward

Matthew McConaugh­ey suf­fers from white sav­iour com­plex in this deeply prob­lem­at­ic Civ­il War drama.

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Review

Kubo and the Two Strings

by Charlie Theobald

Lai­ka Stu­dios may have deliv­ered their mas­ter­piece with this stag­ger­ing stop-motion fable.

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Review

Interstellar

by David Ehrlich

Christo­pher Nolan’s sci-fi epic is his most ambi­tious film yet, if not nec­es­sar­i­ly his best.

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Dallas Buyers Club

by Tina Hassannia

A sug­ar pill treat­ment of how US phar­ma com­pa­nies and the gov­ern­ment tack­led the ​’80s HIV epidemic.

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Review

Mud

by Adam Woodward

Matthew McConaughey’s sub­lime trans­for­ma­tion into A Seri­ous Actor con­tin­ues apace with this rip­ping Souther thriller.

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