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Father of Flies

After the astonishing festival success of Irish changeling story You Are Not My Mother, the next family haunting…

By Selina Sondermann
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Benedetta

Paul Verhoeven has done it again. As with his infamous box-office bomb Showgirls, Benedetta had the prerequisites for…

By Selina Sondermann
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Streamline

Writer-director Tyson Wade Johnson’s Streamline centres around 15-year-old Benji (Levi Miller), a prodigal swimmer primed for a spot…

By Andrew Murray
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Operation Mincemeat

Based on both the real-life World War II deception operation and Ben Macintyre’s book inspired by the events,…

By Umar Ali
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The Lost City

Romance novelist Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) has hit a wall, both in her writing and personal life. Forced…

By Guy Lambert
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You Are Not My Mother

Halloween is just around the corner when Char’s depressive mother Angela disappears after labouredly taking the teenage girl…

By Selina Sondermann
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All the Old Knives

When a six-year-old case is reopened after new intelligence comes to light, CIA operative Henry Pelham (Chris Pine)…

By Andrew Murray
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Julia

Presenting itself as a homage to the woman who taught the American household how to cook from the…

By Guy Lambert
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The Outfit

While some creative talents have taken the pandemic as an opportunity to decompress, for Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance,…

By Selina Sondermann