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Breakdown

British director Jonnie Malachi’s gangster pastiche Breakdown is a vicious mongrel of a movie, frothing and snarling but…

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The Revenant

The Revenant, directed by Alejandro G Iñárritu, is being released one year after Iñárritu’s critically acclaimed Birdman, but the…

By Gioia Kennedy
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The Big Short

The Big Short is like a “cookie filled with arsenic” – to quote Burt Lancaster in The Sweet…

By Edward Till
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Dragon Blade

Dragon Blade opens with an aerial shot capturing the grand expanse of the Silk Road, accompanied by a…

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Creed

When Creed was released last November in the US, Sylvester Stallone was keen to expel any notions of…

By Thomas Jordan
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Paranoid Girls

In the high-stakes world of fashion, anything could happen – but very little does. Ana, Veronica and Paula…

By Sarah Button
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The Ice and the Sky

Luc Jaquet returns to the Antarctic after his stunning documentary March of the Penguins collected an Oscar. This…

By Sean Gallen
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Partisan

The story of a deadly cult and its enigmatic leader, Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan is a somewhat darker way…

By Sarah Sutton
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At Any Price

Set among the sprawling cornfields of rural Iowa, At Any Price seeks to explore issues that are equally…

By Stuart Boyland
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Spotlight

A film in which the Catholic Church is the villain, challenged by a team of journalists uncovering a…

By Mersa Auda