In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two families – one white, one…
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Justice League | DC’s team of superheroes fail to wow in their first joint venture
Unite. Ben Affleck’s Batman, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman and Henry Cavill’s Superman join…
North by Northwest | Pure entertainment: Hitchcock’s thriller back on the big screen
Alfred Hitchcock takes you…. North by Northwest! Clever, witty and suspenseful, this is…
Victoria & Abdul | Tale of an unlikely friendship goes for cosy laughs
History’s most unlikely friendship. Back in 1997, director John Maden and screenwriter Jeremy…
The Villainess | South Korean action thriller delivers a roaring rampage of revenge
An Endless Vengeance Begins. South Korean action thriller The Villainess opens with a…
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Luc Besson’s extravagantly loopy sci-fi fantasy
Luc Besson goes for broke – possibly literally- with Valerian and the City…
Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan’s immersive epic thrusts us into the heat and heart of war
At the point of crisis, at the point of annihilation, survival is victory.…
Julius Caesar | Phyllida Lloyd’s startling all-female version of Shakespeare’s play on screen
Phyllida Law’s startling version of Julius Ceasar set in a women’s prison appears…
Tommy’s Honour | Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden hit this golf biopic out of the rough
The pride of a father. The love of a wife. The soul of…
Baby Driver | Edgar Wright’s car-chase thriller has drop-dead cool and killer tunes
All you need is one killer track. Edgar Wright’s car-chase thriller Baby Driver…
Rock Dog | Pup idol! A Tibetan Mastiff with dreams of music biz success
A new breed of rock star. In the Himalayan village of Snow Mountain,…
Wonder Woman | Gal Gadot’s spirited and soulful superhero comes out on top
Power. Grace. Wisdom. Wonder. Gal Gadot’s lithe and feisty Wonder Woman was the…
Baywatch | Dwayne Johnson’s charm and Zac Efron’s cool can’t stop this reboot from sinking
Giving a knowing comic spin to a cheesy late-1980s/90s TV series worked a…
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Bish bash bosh! Guy Ritchie’s Mockney Arthurian adventure is an epic fail
Camelot meets Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Guy Ritchie’s take on Arthurian…
Assassin’s Creed | Michael Fassbender can’t rescue this video game action movie from absurdity
Combining conspiratorial gobbledegook with lots of running and jumping over medieval rooftops, this…
Alien: Covenant | There’s a new crew on board, but haven’t we been this way before?
Four decades on from the epochal Alien, Ridley Scott returns to the primal…
Their Finest | Gemma Arterton boosts home-front morale in this charming Blitz-era comedy
Gemma Arterton is on shining form as a diffident young Welsh woman who…
The Handmaiden | Park Chan-wook’s exquisitely seductive suspense thriller set in 1930s Korea
Park Chan-wook returns to his native Korea following his recent Hollywood foray, 2013’s…
City of Tiny Lights | Riz Ahmed’s West London private eye is haunted by the past, dogged by the present
‘I wanted to stay around but I had a girl to find and…
Free Fire | Ben Wheatley lets the bullets fly for a red-hot shoot-’em up thriller
After producing a fizzling squib with last year’s High-Rise, Ben Wheatley is back,…