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My Name Is Salt

My Name Is Salt is an informed and graceful exploration of the lives of the "salt people" for…

By Alice Gormley
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Appropriate Behaviour

Unashamedly honest and emotionally rigorous, Appropriate Behaviour is the spiky cinematic debut of director Desiree Akhavan. With a cool…

By Culture Desk
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The Boy Next Door

The plot for The Boy Next Door, a new psychological thriller starring Jennifer Lopez, is pretty simple: a…

By ME Oren
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Fifty Shades of Grey

Having already sold a staggering 100 million copies, Fifty Shades of Grey seemed ripe to become a ready-made blockbuster…

By Keir Smith
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Cinderella

Taking an animated classic, over 60 years old, and transforming it into a modern, live-action Hollywood romance was…

By Georgia Mizen
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High Tide

“None of this is fun”, teenager Josh (Samuel Davies) says to his mother Bethan (Melanie Walters) as they…

By Scarlet Howes
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The Face of an Angel

The 2007 murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Italy was an incident that gripped the world. At…

By Erin Basset
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Hyena

After winning stellar reviews for his directorial debut Tony, Gerard Johnson offers nothing less impressive in his second creation. Peter…

By Tina Squatley-Thrust
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The Duke of Burgundy

The Duke of Burgundy is an immediate success on at least one level: thanks to a complete lack…

By Stuart Boyland