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• 2017
• UK
• 1h 32min
• 15

• Directed by: John McPhail
• Cast: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Marli Siu, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins

Motherless teen Anna (Hunt) and her lovesick bestie John (Cumming) are about to graduate from secondary school when they find themselves in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Polished, self-aware and pleasingly irreverent zombie musical, spattered with blood and sprinkled with glitter, a surefire Christmas crowdpleaser.

• 65%
• 63%

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• 2018
• US

• Directed by: James Wan
• Cast: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman

Jason Momoa stars as the heir to Atlantis in the latest DC superhero flick.

• 82%
• 53%

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• 2018
• UK/USA
• 1h 31min
• 12A

• Directed by: Bryan Singer
• Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, Allen Leech, Mike Myers

The Freddie Mercury story. Malek as Mercury does a great job, with a passionate and impressive performance, but despite the recreation of momentous performances it’s a disappointingly tame affair, with a by-the-numbers screenplay and a bland lack of insight into Mercury’s heritage or sexuality.

• 83%
• 49%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 53min
• 12A

• Directed by: Travis Knight
• Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, Jason Drucker, Pamela Adlon

A teenager finds an Autobot hiding in a junkyard. The pair from a friendship but are soon hunted by a government agency.

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• 73%

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• 2018
• UK
• 1h 10min
• U

Special Christmas show from CBeebies.

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• 2018
• US
• 12A

• Directed by: Steven Caple Jr
• Cast: Tessa Thompson, Sylvester Stallone, Michael B Jordan

Adonis Creed (Jordan) must defend his world title against Viktor Drago (Munteanu), whose father killed Creed’s own father in Rocky IV. Flashy and entertaining sequel that hits all the right beats but doesn’t quite have the heart of its predecessor..

• 78%
• 67%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 57min

• Directed by: David Leitch
• Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Fred Savage, Josh Brolin

Deadpool 2 gets the Christmas treatment as the 'merc with a mouth' kidnaps Fred Savage (Princess Bride, The Wonder Years) and forces him to listen to a version of the film without all the gory parts.

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• 1988
• US
• 2h 11min
• 18

• Directed by: John McTiernan
• Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov

Willis plays a cop who attends a tower block Christmas party with his estranged spouse. The building is raided by terrorists, so it's left to Willis to bump off the baddies and save the hostages while the police and FBI languish ineptly on the sidelines. Unbearably tense actioner that gets good mileage out of yawning lift-shafts and flying bullets, while Willis is convincing as an ordinary guy trying to cope with it all. Watch out for Brit Rickman as a villain with a sense of humour.

• 82%
• 72%
• 92%

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• 2018
• UK/US
• 2h 14min
• 12A

• Directed by: David Yates
• Written by: J.K. Rowling
• Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Johnny Depp

Newt (Redmayne) is back in London in 1927, while defeated Dark Wizard Grindelwald (Depp) has escaped and is heading to Paris. Law steps up as young Albus Dumbeldore and the film really flies in the final act, deepening characters and relationships and expanding the universe. A beast of a movie.

• 69%
• 53%

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• 2018
• US
• 2h 18min
• 12A

• Directed by: Damien Chazelle
• Cast: Ryan Gosling, Corey Stoll, Claire Foy

Biopic of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong (Gosling), with subtle and unshowy performances from Gosling and from Foy as his no-BS wife Jan. An intimate and moving character drama with raw and visceral space-peril thrills and a hero whose fame rests on modesty, curiosity and problem-solving purposefulness.

• 76%
• 84%

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• 2018
• UK / Germany / Sweden / Canada / USA
• 1h 57min
• 15

• Directed by: Fede Álvarez
• Cast: Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, LaKeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant

Lisbeth Salander returns, recruited by a computer boffin (Merchant) to hack a program that accesses nuclear codes, but then her sister (Hoeks) shows up wanting revenge on her for fleeing home. Foy is impressive but it goes for surface thrills rather than psychological depth.

• 61%
• 43%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 26min
• PG

• Directed by: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier
• Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson, Cameron Seely, Angela Lansbury

The Grinch (Cumberbatch) is a grumpy, green creature who despises Christmas so much that he plots to steal it. The animation is gorgeous, the pace is breezy and Cumberbatch does a decent job with the voice, but the film is stolen by the Grinch’s adorable dog Max.

• 64%
• 51%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 45min
• 18

• Directed by: David Gordon Green
• Written by: Jeff Fradley, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green
• Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Virginia Gardner, Nick Castle

A direct sequel to the 1978 original: Michael Myers has been locked in a prison for most of his life, and it falls to long-suffering Laurie (Curtis) to stop him. After a slow beginning it gets going, and Laurie, now a mother and grandmother, has to battle with trauma. A straightforward stalk-n-slash in the best tradition of the franchise.

• 70%
• 67%

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• 2018
• US
• 2h 12min
• 12A

• Directed by: George Tillman Jr.
• Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby

Starr (Stenberg) is an African-American high school girl who goes to a predominantly white private school, and who becomes the only witness to her childhood friend being shot by a trigger-happy cop. An unexpectedly rich and complex teen movie, a potent reminder of the complexities of a world full of racial and class divides. Stenberg is excellent.

• 69%
• 82%

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• 2018

Verdi's opera about the passionate, consumptive Violetta, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

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• 2018
• New Zealand/US

• Directed by: Christian Rivers
• Cast: Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Robert Sheehan

In a post-apocalyptic future, entire cities have gone mobile and ingest smaller cities, stripping them of resources. Rivers nails the spectacle but flunks the human interest, squeezing too many effects and story into one movie and leaving no room for emotional engagement.

• 66%
• 48%

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• 2018
• UK
• 1h 40min
• U

• Directed by: Debbie Isitt
• Written by: Debbie Isitt
• Cast: Simon Lipkin, Craig Revel Horwood, Daniel Boys, Anna Chancellor, Helen George, Meera Syal, Hugh Dennis, Jessica Hynes, Vincent Franklin, Ruth Jones, Celia Imrie

A fourth film in the comedy series about school nativity plays.

• 44%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 39min
• PG

• Directed by: Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston
• Cast: Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Eugenio Derbez, Matthew Macfadyen, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman

Clara (Foy) is a science-minded teenager whose late mother leaves her a jewellery egg which needs a key, the search for which involves journeying into magical realms. A random hodge-podge of underpowered set pieces loosely inspired by ETA Hoffmann, with the supporting cast chewing the scenery and a lot of grandiose settings but not much story.

• 56%
• 39%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 33min

• Directed by: David Lowery
• Cast: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Redford), a career criminal and perpetual prison escapee, who’s being chased by Texas lawman John Hunt (Affleck). Redford says it’ll be his last film and it’s a fitting ending: playful, highly entertaining and made with great skill.

• 73%
• 80%

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• 2017
• 1h 5min
• U

• Directed by: Maria Timotheou

Ryder, Chase, Marshal, Skye and the rest of PAW Patrol return to the big screen with four episodes. The gang visit new locations, including a mountaintop, ocean and a jungle.

• 72%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 26min
• 15

• Directed by: Diederik van Rooijen
• Cast: Shay Mitchell, Kirby Johnson, Grey Damon

Megan Reed (Mitchell) is a cop on night duty in the mortuary, when dead Hannah Grace (Johnson) keeps wandering the corridors and murdering staff. Straightforward and rather stale genre piece with jump scares, dream sequences and logical gaps, elevated to watchability by Mitchell’s solid performance.

• 51%
• 37%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 52min
• PG

• Directed by: Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
• Cast: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Taraji P. Henson

Ralph (Reilly) and Vanellope (Silverman) have to go to the internet when her game, Sugar Rush, needs a new part. What could have been yet another film about how amazeballs the internet is, becomes a savvy and sweet tale of friendship, subtly weaving the in-jokes with the emotional stakes.

• 75%
• 71%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 56min
• 12A

• Directed by: Otto Bathurst
• Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Tim Minchin, Jamie Dornan, Cornelius Booth

Robin of Loxley (Egerton) returns from the Crusades to find his possessions confiscated by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Mendelsohn) and his love Marian (Hewson) being courted by Will Scarlet (Dornan). The running time is a stretch but it doesn’t take itself too seriously, preferring to get in, get out and (mostly) get the job done.

• 54%
• 32%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 36min
• U

• Directed by: Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig
• Cast: Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, Yara Shahidi, Ely Henry, Jimmy Tatro

Migo (Tatum) is a bigfoot who lives in an isolated community of his fellow creatures, who have heard rumours of the mythical ‘smallfoots’—humans. The songs are fun and drive the story forward, and child-pleasing slapstick is ably mixed with a thoughtful consideration of how a community can deal with challenges to its basic assumptions.

• 67%
• 60%

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• 2018
• US

• Directed by: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
• Cast: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Nicolas Cage

Miles Morales (Moore) is an average kid living in a New York where Spider-Man exists, but he then gets bitten himself by a radioactive spider and starts developing familiar abilities. Hugely imaginative animated adventure which dispenses with the familiar origin story and looks like a comic come to life. Hilarious, original and exhilarating.

• 86%
• 85%

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• 2018
• US
• 2h 15min
• 15

• Directed by: Bradley Cooper
• Cast: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott

Jackson (Cooper) is a famous musician, his best years behind him, who discovers young singer Ally (Gaga) in a bar one night. What could have been yet another remake is a revelation: Gaga sings up a storm and is nuanced and convincing, but Cooper is extraordinary as co-writer, producer, director and star. Smart, funny and heartbreaking.

• 82%
• 88%

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• 2018
• US / Italy
• 2h 32min
• 18

• Directed by: Luca Guadagnino
• Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Christine LeBoutte, Fabrizia Sacchi, Małgosia Bela, Jessica Harper, Chloë Grace Moretz

Susie (Johnson), a hugely ambitious young dancer, joins the Tanz Dance Academy in 1977—but is it a coven of witches? Guadagnino’s remake of Argento’s original references historical violence and guilt and it’s a richly provocative piece of modern art, with sighs, screams and occasional explosions of bone-crunching intensity.

• 73%
• 64%

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• 2015
• US

• Directed by: Justin Chadwick
• Cast: Dane DeHaan, Christoph Waltz, Jack O'Connell, Judi Dench

Sophia (Vikander) is married to elderly Cornelis (Waltz) but they can’t conceive a child; then he hires penniless artist Jan (DeHaan) to paint her, and she and Jan begin an affair. It’s a lovely recreation of 17th century Amsterdam, but Chadwick buries the story in restless camerawork, garbled dialogue and bawdy comic elements.

• 62%
• 38%

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• 2018
• US
• 1h 51min
• 15

• Directed by: Yann Demange
• Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley

Rick (Merritt) is a teenage boy growing up in 80s Detroit, whose father (McConaughey) uses his son to hustle local arms dealers. A gangster flick with an original slant, sometimes vague on the details but with great performances from Merritt, McConaughey and Powley as Rick's drug-addicted sister. Intermittently excellent.

• 65%
• 59%

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• 2018
• UK / US
• 2h 9min
• 15

• Directed by: Steve McQueen
• Cast: Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Liam Neeson

Veronica (Davis) is the wife of career criminal Harry (Neeson), who talks the wives of her husband’s associates into pulling off a heist after their husbands are unable to (see the movie title.) Densely populated and richly realised crime drama, with three fine leads in Davis, Debicki and Rodriguez, and McQueen’s contemplative style is balanced with genre thrills and feminist fury.

• 74%
• 84%

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