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Exit 8

On a Japanese underground train, a young man (Kazunari Ninomiya) notices another passenger shouting at a mother with…

By Selina Sondermann
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Miroirs No 3

Paula Beer stars as talented pianist Laura in Christian Petzold's disquieting psychodrama Miroirs No 3, which takes its…

By Andrew Murray
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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

There's gore galore in Lee Cronin's take on The Mummy, but we wouldn't expect anything less from horror…

By Antonia Georgiou
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The Wizard of the Kremlin

When dramatising recent history, what factors differentiate dry fact from galvanising drama; or journalistic recounting of small details…

By Thomas Messner
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Kiss of the Spider Woman

Two men share a cramped Buenos Aires cell at the height of Argentina's military dictatorship, though only one…

By Thomas Messner
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Akira

35 years after arriving in the UK, Katsuhiro Otomo's groundbreaking sci-fi classic Akira returns to cinemas with a…

By Andrew Murray
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Balls Up

Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser team up as salesmen from a contraceptive company looking to pitch their…

By Andrew Murray
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Sunshine Women’s Choir

Heartbreakingly sincere, Sunshine Women's Choir is a charming movie that tells the tale of mothers and daughters. It…

By Mae Trumata
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Rebuilding

Introspective and disarming, with nuanced performances, Rebuilding is a wonderfully magnetic piece starring Josh O’Connor and Lily LaTorre as a…

By Mae Trumata
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Colours of Time

Though it carries the air of one, Colours of Time is not a film about art – or at…

By Christina Yang