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Islands
Sam Riley gets his groove back in a languid mystery with Highsmithian pretensions
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Christy
Christy initially comes on like it’s going to be a gritty corrective to the larks of The Young Offenders but unfurls into something more complex, surprising and moving
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The Courageous
Kolb delivers a typically electrifying, enigmatic portrait of a mother fighting like a cornered animal to keep her family together
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Paul and Paulette take a bath
The atrocity kink eventually extends to morbid cosplay, a little like Amélie meets The Nazis: A Warning from History, with Hitler’s bathtub in place of crème brûlée.
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Little Trouble Girls
In its focus on the spirit and the flesh, the film feels as timeless as Black Narcissus or Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Young Mothers
Any one of these stories would make for a rich and compelling drama in its own right.
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Eddington
Fans who hoped that Aster had got all the indulgence out of his system with the splurge of Beau may be frustrated.
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Late Shift
It may sound gruelling, but you can’t take your eyes off Benesch - who surely now deserves some comfortable romantic costume drama - for a second.
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Tornado
The insistence on a very multicultural 18th century saves the film from being one more blood soaked fanboy genre exercise
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
The most satisfyingly bittersweet British comedy drama since Paddington 2.
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When the light breaks
When the Light Breaks offers no easy consolation or resolution, but is a simple stark elegy worthy of the music of Jóhann Jóhannsson
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I'm Still Here
Walter Salles’ first feature in 12 years opens with a sublime Super 8 love letter to the fleeting, precarious beauty of Rio 1970.