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Napoleon, review: blunt-force charisma from Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s dark, epic biopic
The director’s 28th feature is a magnificent slab of dad cinema, with Phoenix a startling emperor and Vanessa Kirby brilliant as his wife
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The Marvels, review: the superhero franchise sinks to a new low
The shortest of the films is also the most interminable, a knot of nightmares that groans with the series' now-trademark VFX sloppiness
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Callas – Paris, 1958: the great diva thrills again in this lovingly restored tribute
Tom Volf’s ‘colourisation’ of the soprano’s famous Parisian performance captures her talent at its height – and hints at the fall to come
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Dream Scenario, review: Nicolas Cage is nightmarishly ordinary in this cancel culture comedy
Playing a professor who begins appearing peoples’ dreams, Cage gives his best performance in years – even though the film doesn’t match it
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Bottoms, review: madcap Gen Z high school comedy thinks it’s funny – but it’s really not
This disappointing queer comedy, starring Rachel Sennott and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri, is underdeveloped and needlessly violent
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Dance First, review: this bizarre Samuel Beckett biopic is a quiet disaster
Famously nothing happens in Beckett. This awful film starring Gabriel Byrne should have taken note
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The Royal Hotel: a backpacking trip to the Outback takes a chilling, gripping turn
Hugo Weaving is gruesomely credible in this slow-burn take on Australia’s drinking culture
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How To Have Sex, review: teens go wild, bringing out the anxious parent in us all
Holidaying teenage girls learn life's lessons the hard way in Crete in Molly Manning Walker's stomach-churning, compassionate debut feature
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Melting cocaine, volcanic lairs – the real-life hell of Apocalypse Now
The Path to Paradise, Sam Wasson’s stylish new biography of Francis Ford Coppola, wades into the murky making of the director’s masterpiece
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Pain Hustlers: Emily Blunt does Erin Brockovich in a painful Big Pharma drama
Blunt is brilliant and wrestles good moments out of Chris Evans – but this Netflix drama about an opioid start-up sticks in the craw
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Doctor Jekyll: Eddie Izzard is wasted in this timid Hammer horror
The potential for something in true Hammer tradition – over-the-top and and amusingly derelict – was right here, but it never materialises
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Cat Person: this tatty psychothriller smacks of desperation
Starring Succession's Nicholas Braun and Coda's Emilia Jones, this adaptation of the viral New Yorker story is a confused grab-bag of genres
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The Pigeon Tunnel: John le Carré (almost) unmasked by a master documentarian
The late novelist, giving his final interview here, proves a spellbinding subject in Errol Morris's skilful documentary
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Killers of the Flower Moon, review: Scorsese’s masterpiece gives DiCaprio his best role yet
Scorsese has outdone himself with this extravagant Western about the Osage Indian murders, with DiCaprio and De Niro on terrific form
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Trolls Band Together review: like Smurfs by way of Pitch Perfect
The plot in this third Trolls film may trudge, but the same can't be said of the animation
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Foe, review: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal in a lifeless dystopian sci-fi
The Irish Oscar nominees are a watchable couple – but this solemn adaptation gets stuck in a tonal rut from which it struggles to escape
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The Kitchen: Daniel Kaluuya’s dystopian drama fizzes with style – but where’s its drive?
Set in a brutalist near future, the London Film Festival's closing movie is brilliantly designed and full of ideas – but it lacks oomph
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, review: a brilliant sequel that draws on the British spy caper
Full of infiltration missions and mind-control schemes, this is a thrilling sequel with humour inspired by the golden age of British comics
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The End We Start From: Jodie Comer is tremendous in a post-flood survival drama
The Killing Eve star finally shakes that off as her defining role, thanks to a heroic performance in Mahalia Belo's tense, stirring new film
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One Life: Anthony Hopkins is stirring as the ‘British Schindler’ who saved 600 Jewish children
Hopkins's light-touch and affecting restraint are perfect for this extraordinary true story of Hampstead-born stockbroker Nicholas Winton
