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Happening

Audrey Diwan premiered Happening at Venice Film Festival last year and went on to win the Leone d’Oro…

By Selina Sondermann
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Playground

What Playground's original French title, Un Monde (“a world”), alludes to is that school – everything that happens inside…

By Selina Sondermann
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Hard Cell

Sure, Catherine Tate’s Netflix debut is arriving in the aftermath of The Nan Movie (0% on Rotten Tomatoes;…

By Oliver Johnston
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The Northman

One thing's for sure and that's that Robert Eggers's no-holds-barred historical Viking action-thriller, The Northman, is not for…

By Sarah Bradbury
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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