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<p>Gunslinger: Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’</p>

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Watching Alec Baldwin’s fateful western Rust is a miserable experience

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the set of this overlong western – and only her work is of any value here

<p>A delightful creation: Blake Lively in ‘Another Simple Favour’</p>

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Blake Lively delights in the otherwise silly Another Simple Favour

<p>Trademark frown: Florence Pugh in ‘Thunderbolts*’</p>

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Thunderbolts* is the best Marvel film in years – for one simple reason

<p>Ben Affleck in the action sequel ‘The Accountant 2’</p>

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Ben Affleck sequel The Accountant 2 turns autism into a punchline

<p>Musical family: Michael Shannon, George McKay and Tilda Swinton in ‘The End’</p>

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The End is a chilling story stretched over the bones of an MGM musical

Acclaimed documentarian behind ‘The Act of Killing’ Joshua Oppenheimer turns his hand to fiction for this socially charged musical

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The End is a chilling story stretched over the bones of an MGM musical

Acclaimed documentarian behind ‘The Act of Killing’ Joshua Oppenheimer turns his hand to fiction for this socially charged musical

<p>Rising flood waters force a cat to leave their safe perch and embark on a journey of survival</p>

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Flow is an Oscar-winning tale of survival to delight all cat lovers

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Rachel Zegler deserves better than this lazy, repellent Snow White

<p>One of two Robert De Niros in ‘The Alto Knights’</p>

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Robert De Niro’s underwhelming performance sinks The Alto Knights

<p>Ayo Edebiri in the thriller ‘Opus’</p>

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A24’s cult thriller Opus is yet another superficial riff on Midsommar

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A24’s cult thriller Opus is yet another superficial riff on Midsommar

<p>Millie Bobby Brown and a big yellow robot in Netflix’s ‘The Electric State’</p>

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Millie Bobby Brown’s Netflix epic Electric State is totally incoherent

<p>The spy life: Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play married spies in ‘Black Bag’</p>

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Steven Soderbergh’s drum-tight married spies film is thrillingly sexy

<p>Jessica Chastain in Michel Franco’s ‘Dreams’</p>

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The Jessica Chastain drama that’s left festival audiences reeling

Michel Franco’s film chronicles the blistering affair between a wealthy American woman and a Mexican immigrant dancer – but could have used a bit more nuance

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The Jessica Chastain drama that’s left festival audiences reeling

Michel Franco’s film chronicles the blistering affair between a wealthy American woman and a Mexican immigrant dancer – but could have used a bit more nuance

<p>Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s ‘Hot Milk’</p>

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Emma Mackey is exceptional in the surreal and sapphic drama Hot Milk

<p>Red presidents: Harrison Ford in ‘Captain America: Brave New World’</p>

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The new Captain America isn’t anti-Trump, but it’s certainly anti-fun

<p>Hugh Grant and Renée Zellweger in ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’</p>

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Mad About the Boy is the best Bridget Jones sequel yet

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Munich Olympics drama September 5 is the wrong film for the moment

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Munich Olympics drama September 5 is the wrong film for the moment

<p>Misery business: Barry Keoghan in ‘Bring Them Down’</p>

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Barry Keoghan spirals into catastrophe in the stark Bring Them Down

<p>Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ </p>

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Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Hard Truths will make you laugh and cry

<p>Oscar frontrunner: Adrien Brody in ‘The Brutalist’</p>

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Oscar frontrunner The Brutalist is a colossal cinematic achievement

<p>Behind Liu: a ghost haunts Rebekah and her family in Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Presence’</p>

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Steven Soderbergh’s Presence radically subverts haunted house cliches

<p>Elle Fanning and Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unknown’</p>

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Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan biopic plays too safe

<p>Uncanny valley: Robin Wright and Tom Hanks in ‘Here’ </p>

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Tom Hanks’s new film Here is a stilted, manipulative disaster

<p>Nom nom nom: Christopher Abbott in ‘Wolf Man’ </p>

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The new Wolf Man is far too tame to be frightening

<p>Committed: Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman in ‘Babygirl’ </p>

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Babygirl is unabashedly, giddily sexy – with a fearless Nicole Kidman

<p>Angelina Jolie in the Maria Callas film ‘Maria’</p>

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Angelina Jolie’s performance as Maria Callas is career-defining

<p>Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg in ‘A Real Pain’ </p>

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A Real Pain boasts a wrecking ball of a performance from Kieran Culkin

<p>POV: Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson in ‘Nickel Boys’ </p>

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Nickel Boys is an artistically daring masterpiece

RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel uses a point-of-view camera to fully immerse audiences

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Nickel Boys is an artistically daring masterpiece

RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel uses a point-of-view camera to fully immerse audiences

<p>Star power: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in ‘We Live in Time’ </p>

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The romantic weepie We Live in Time makes cancer remarkably cosy

<p>Monkey business: Jonno Davies as Robbie Williams in ‘Better Man’ </p>

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The Robbie Williams chimp biopic works far better than you might think

<p>Dreary and formless: Barry Jenkins’s ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ </p>

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The Lion King 2 is a catastrophic waste of Oscar winner Barry Jenkins

<p>Life’s a beach: Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in ‘Queer’</p>

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Daniel Craig is marvellous in the erotic fever dream of Queer

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Daniel Craig is marvellous in the erotic fever dream of Queer

<p>It’s not a knockout: Aaron Taylor-Johnson in ‘Kraven the Hunter’</p>

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Kraven the Hunter is an abysmal farewell to Sony’s Spider-Man universe

<p>I am (also) no man: Gaia Wise’s Héra in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’</p>

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The animated Lord of the Rings is a rushed money-grab

<p>Dog’s dinner: Amy Adams in ‘Nightbitch’ </p>

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Amy Adams deserves better than the dog’s dinner that is Nightbitch

<p>Depp trouble: Lily-Rose Depp in Robert Eggers’s ‘Nosferatu'</p>

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Nosferatu is the most profoundly frightening horror film in years

<p>Lost at sea: Auliʻi Cravalho voices the titular seafarer in ‘Moana 2’</p>

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Moana 2 needed better songs (which may be good news for parents)

<p>Papal person: Ralph Fiennes in ‘Conclave’ </p>

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Ralph Fiennes’s Oscar-tipped Conclave needed more than shock and awe

<p>Divya Prabha in ‘All We Imagine as Light’ </p>

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All We Imagine as Light’s beautiful loneliness will speak to your soul

<p>TV advert lighting: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in ‘Wicked’</p>

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Wicked is fun and well-acted – but why does it look so terrible?

<p>Miscast: Selena Gomez in ‘Emilia Pérez’ </p>

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Selena Gomez is miscast in the vapid Oscar frontrunner Emilia Pérez

<p>Heir apparent: Paul Mescal in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II’ </p>

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Gladiator 2 is thrilling – but Paul Mescal is no Russell Crowe

<p>Bear minimum: Paddington in ‘Paddington in Peru’</p>

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Paddington in Peru is the worst in the franchise

This is an occasionally sweet and whimsical third go around for the marmalade-loving bear, but its plotting is awfully familiar and Paddington’s usual tomfoolery oddly underutilised

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Paddington in Peru is the worst in the franchise

This is an occasionally sweet and whimsical third go around for the marmalade-loving bear, but its plotting is awfully familiar and Paddington’s usual tomfoolery oddly underutilised

<p>Scooter, brawn: Barry Keoghan in Andrea Arnold’s ‘Bird’ </p>

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Barry Keoghan is charismatic and sad in the magical British drama Bird

<p>Mark Eydelshteyn and Mikey Madison in ‘Anora’ </p>

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The funny, chaotic, tender Anora is Cinderella with sex workers

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It’s the Hugh Grant we know in Heretic – that’s what makes it scary

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Wallace and Gromit is rib-tickling proof newer isn’t always better

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Wallace and Gromit is rib-tickling proof newer isn’t always better

<p>Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore in ‘The Room Next Door’ </p>

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The Room Next Door is Pedro Almodóvar’s weakest film in years

<p>Teething problems: Venom (played by Tom Hardy) in ‘Venom: The Last Dance’</p>

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Venom: The Last Dance is fun when it’s not being a Madame Web rerun

<p>Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’</p>

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Trump fretted about The Apprentice – but it’s not worth the fuss

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Anna Kendrick’s Netflix thriller Woman of the Hour is too cautious

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Studio Ghibli homage The Wild Robot will leave you a blubbering mess

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Timestalker is a British time-travel comedy you absolutely must see

<p>Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan in Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ </p>

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Steve McQueen’s Blitz is a monumental achievement in British cinema

<p>Adam Pearson in ‘A Different Man’ </p>

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A Different Man would make for a great double bill with The Substance

<p>Paint your noggin: Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’</p>

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Joker: Folie à Deux is just as bleak and daring as the original

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Saoirse Ronan plays to her greatest strengths in the stark The Outrun

<p>Aubrey Plaza in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ </p>

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Francis Ford Coppola’s $120m self-funded Megalopolis is no car crash

Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza and a cross-dressing Shia LaBeouf are among the many stars giving quite mannered performances in this eagerly anticipated and deeply flawed sci-fi spectacle

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Francis Ford Coppola’s $120m self-funded Megalopolis is no car crash

Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza and a cross-dressing Shia LaBeouf are among the many stars giving quite mannered performances in this eagerly anticipated and deeply flawed sci-fi spectacle