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  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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    The director draws on the loss of his own wife for the story of a bereaved owner of a future-facing cemetery

  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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    Hot Milk — a sweltering tale of mother-daughter codependence

    Fiona Shaw and Emma Mackey star in a bold directorial debut from playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz about people stuck in place

  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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    Idris Elba and John Cena star in an action bromance with lashings of manic slapstick

  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
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    Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali star in an ugly reboot that’s at its best when rehashing ‘Jaws’

  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
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    Chicken Town — a larky comedy from the badlands of Lincolnshire

    A lonely retiree, an aggrieved teenager and a conspiracy-mad mechanic populate Richard Bracewell’s small-town story

    Two young men sit on a sofa in front of a decrepit caravan parked in waste land; in the foreground, a chicken struts
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
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    Documentary looks back to the celebratory days of Sudan’s 2019 revolution, and the aftermath

    Three women sit together, smiling; one is talking animatedly
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
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    A billboard advertising the James Bond film ‘No Time to Die’ in Leicester Square, London
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
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    M3gan 2.0 — AI horror doll gets a witty upgrade and a lethal foil

    Gerard Johnstone coaxes smart comedy from the deadpan humanoid tween and her self-aware new counterpart

    A woman looks in puzzled fascination at a humanoid doll
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
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    F1 — Brad Pitt’s charisma fuels roaringly good tale of clashing racers and egos

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ director Joseph Kosinski brings full-throttle confidence to movie about a grizzled vet taking on a cocksure young rival

    A man in a white racing uniform stands on a track surrounded by cars and technicians
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
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    High-tech Studio Ulster drives boom in N Ireland’s film industry

    One of the world’s most advanced animation and gaming studios expands a reputation built on ‘Game of Thrones’

    The movements of an actor wearing sensors are transposed on to an animated creature at Studio Ulster
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
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    Rebecca Lenkiewicz on ‘Hot Milk’, queer love and making the leap from writing to directing

    The pleasures and challenges of adapting Deborah Levy’s much-loved novel for the big screen

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  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
    Is F1 the last hope for originality in summer blockbusters?

    Studios are relying on sequels and reboots more than ever. If Apple’s motor-racing movie fails, it could be the end of the road for new ideas

    Images of Brad Pitt as a Formula 1 driver, Superman in the ‘Fortress of Solitude’ with his dog, and a roaring dinosaur
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Review
    Holloway — hugely powerful return to former women’s prison

    Six ex-inmates discuss their experiences of life inside in a film of raw honesty and pinpoint self-awareness

    A woman stands in a prison cell furnished with a bed frame without a mattress
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
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    The Last Journey — Swedish documentary blends sentiment and comedy

    Road trip in a Renault 4 explores a father-and-son relationship and the melancholy business of getting old

    An elderly man and two younger men, one of whom is driving, sit in a car, smiling
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Review
    Elio — Pixar’s surprisingly human story of an alien-obsessed child

    A lonely 11-year-old orphan finds himself representing the planet Earth in this Spielbergian tale

    CGI cartoon still of a boy, wearing a blue eyepatch, on some kind of slide, clutching on to a smiling grey alien that looks like a shark
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Review
    28 Years Later — zombified Britain is cut off from world in expansive sequel

    Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer star in director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland’s portrait of a plagued island

    A grossly emaciated, stick-thin, naked human, covered in blood, walks through a field of wild flowers with bright blue sky behind him
  • Saturday, 14 June, 2025
    Jaws at 50 — and why the movies have never been the same since

    How the monster hit sent people screaming from beaches and into cinemas — with contributions from Steven Spielberg and others

    With other crew members behind him, a man at the front of a raised platform directs a camera towards the mouth of a huge model shark
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    Review
    Tornado — the samurai Spaghetti Western comes to Georgian Britain

    Japanese singer-songwriter Kōki stars as a young woman on the run, with Tim Roth and Jack Lowden supporting

    A young woman stands in a forest with her hand on her samurai-style sword, looking at the blade of a sword that is pointing towards her
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
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    Lollipop — a single mother vs the Social Services system

    Daisy-May Hudson’s urgent fiction debut has an intense performance from Posy Sterling and echoes of Ken Loach

    In a woodland setting, a woman stands holding a young boy while a young woman leans against her; all are smiling
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    Review
    How to Train Your Dragon — live-action remake struggles to match the original

    Mason Thames as young Hiccup is a rare focus of calm amid the clanging, roaring and manic editing

    A bearded man wearing Viking gear, including a horned helmet, stands in a wooden longboat next to a muzzled dragon
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