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★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - The true tale of a foul-mouthed scribbler in 1920s Sussex is given nuance by a stellar cast including Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan and Timothy Spall -  Before X or Twitter or even YouTube, if you wanted to vent your rage at an unjust world on a blameless…
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Dune: Part Two

★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - Second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle -  The second part of Denis Villeneuve’s monumental Dune adaptation lands with a sternum-juddering crash; it’s another shroom of a film, an epic sci-fi hallucination whose images speak of fascism and…
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The Great Escaper

★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - The two British icons bring a huge amount of joy to the heartwarming true story of Bernard Jordan, the 89-year-old veteran who snuck off to attend the 70th anniversary of D-day -  Michael Caine and the late Glenda Jackson bring their A games to this true-life heartwarmer…
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The Zone of Interest

★★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - Jonathan Glazer’s unforgettable Auschwitz drama is a brutal masterpiece -  Before you read on, a word of caution. There are some films – many of them – that impress on a first viewing but which start to trickle away, like a handful of sand, the moment you leave the cinema.…
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Charcoal

★★★★½ - STUFF  - A darkly funny Brazilian gem -  Charcoal is set mostly in a three-room shack not too far from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The calendar on the kitchen wall tells us the year is 2017, but it may just be no one has bothered to change the calendar for a few years and the events of the film…
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All of Us Strangers

★★★★★ - STUFF - A strange and truly wonderful love story - I haven't seen every film Andrew Haigh has made, but I've seen enough to know he is an astonishing film-maker. Haigh’s early short films are apparently wonderful, and his debut feature – Greek Pete – picked up awards and won him many…
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The Holdovers

★★★★★ - STUFF - Alexander Payne's latest film is a vintage gem - The Holdovers opens with a simple flourish. The movie screen crackles into life and a logo from Paramount Pictures appears. But it is not the branding from 2023. This is a Paramount logo from the 1970s. For a moment, the audience…
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Poor Things

★★★★★ - STUFF - Emma Stone is simply superb as Poor Things’ Bella Baxter. -  Greek film-maker Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest deliciously dark dramedy might be focused on biological abominations, but it delivers on-screen chemistry and a cinematic alchemy that will leave you breathless and beguiled in…
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Poor Things

★★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - Stone gives a hilarious, beyond-next-level performance as Bella Baxter, the experimental subject of a troubled Victorian anatomist -  That cooing note of kindness and pity in the title is misleading – in fact, there is pure vivisectional ruthlessness in this toweringly…
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