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Heretic
A suave and dapper Hugh Grant draws two Mormon missionaries into a psychological game of terror and manipulation. Read the full review
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Love Lies Bleeding
Kristen Stewart stars in Rose Glass’s bodybuilding noir, a violent story of extreme sport, forbidden love and a lot of murder. Read the full review
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Monster
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s deliberately dense but ultimately hopeful examination of how to negotiate family dysfunction with intelligence and humanity. Read the full review
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Emilia Pérez
Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical about a Mexican cartel leader who hires a lawyer to arrange his transition is carried along by its cheesy Broadway energy. Read the full review
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Evil Does Not Exist
Ryu Hamaguchi’s enigmatic eco-parable about a Tokyo company buying up land near a pristine lake turns into a complex and mysterious drama. Read the full review
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Wicked
The Wizard of Oz musical prequel is brought to the big screen with sugar-rush energy by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera. Read the full review
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A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
Lovingly eccentric ode to a forgotten abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, brought to life by Mark Cousins in this idiosyncratically persuasive film. Read the full review
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Hollywoodgate
Fascinating insight into the Taliban’s insular world by documentary-maker Ibrahim Nash’at, revealing the fighters’ lack of purpose after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Read the full review
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Hundreds of Beavers
Gold Rush-style silent comedy combining Chaplin, Keaton and Looney Tunes into an utterly silly movie pastiche, with an army of full-sized beavers. Read the full review
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No Other Land
Account of an Israeli and a Palestinian’s remarkable relationship across the divide, after they met when Palestinian villages were bulldozed to make way for the Israeli military. Read the full review
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The Dead Don’t Hurt
Viggo Mortensen directs, writes, composes and acts in this beautifully shot and sombre film about an old-school hero in a 19th-century frontier community fraught with tragedy. Read the full review
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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Elene Naveriani’s film, about a single woman in a remote Georgian village whose life is changed for ever after a near-death experience, is a gentle gem about midlife love and loneliness. Read the full review
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There’s Still Tomorrow
Paola Cortellesi’s directing debut, in which she also stars, depicts gruelling domestic abuse before finding a way to redemption in a resoundingly sentimental drama set in postwar Rome. Read the full review
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Omen (Augure)
Musician and film-maker Baloji’s movie about a Belgian-Congolese man who takes his white wife to DRC to meet the family is complex, risky and bold. Read the full review
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Opponent
Payman Maadi brings a fierce intelligence to his portrayal of an Iranian wrestling champ refugee who is seeking a secure new home for his family in Sweden. Read the full review
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Close Your Eyes
The Spirit of the Beehive director Víctor Erice returns after 30 years with an enigmatic tale of a disappeared actor that ruminates on memory, ageing and cinema itself. Read the full review
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The Settlers
Europe’s exploitation of Tierra del Fuego at the turn of the 20th century is told in an unsparingly bloody drama-thriller by first-time director Felipe Gálvez Haberle. Read the full review
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Hoard
Luna Carmoon’s deeply strange and compelling study of loneliness and thwarted sexuality shows the ways in which childhood trauma can bloom in adult life. Read the full review
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Queer
Daniel Craig plays an American expat living indolently in Mexico City in a sometimes uproarious adaptation of William Burroughs’s autobiographical novel. Read the full review
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Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Tyler Taormina’s very warm and rich movie about one huge family’s festivities is a charming hometown study. Read the full review
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