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Celine Song marks her directorial debut with Past Lives, exploring the touching relationship between first-generation immigrant Nora (Greta Lee) and her former Korean flame Hae Song (Teo Yoo)

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Ideas and inspiration for spreading the love from home this Galentine’s and Valentine’s Day

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Nordic folklore is combined with grisly crimes in a Swedish genre-bender Border, based on the writings of John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Innocence and experience jostle in Shoplifters, a beautiful, alchemical family drama from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda who snapped up the Palme d'Or at Cannes

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A directorial debut from actor Paul Dano and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Wildlife is a stripped-back drama about being reckless in your quietest moments

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Bradley Cooper directs and stars alongside Lady Gaga for the fourth iteration of this story – but everything about A Star Is Born still feels alive and essential

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Gaspar Noé returns with Climax, another piece of provocation, blending sex, drugs and faux-philosophical musings

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From Now You See Me 2 director Jon M. Chu, Crazy Rich Asians is a rom-com fantasy that tackles class, family, and lavish lifestyles

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The latest film from UK-based Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski, Cold War is a chilling black-and-white melodic odyssey through Communist Europe, Paris and beyond

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From the fun to the feelgood to the fast and furious, here are the best blockbusters of 2018 coming out this summer

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Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy charm in The Bookshop, a heart-warming, if two-dimensional, tale for book lovers

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Directorial debut from Rupert Everett, The Happy Prince is a heartfelt account of Oscar Wilde's final years in Europe that just holds itself together. Colin Firth and Emily Watson feature.

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A star-studded cast featuring Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsborough can’t save the latest from Arnaud Desplechin, Ismael's Ghosts from partially sinking under the weight of symbolism-induced hollowness

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Here's what you'll be watching next: the buzziest and best films that screened at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

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Saoirse Ronan stars in On Chesil Beach, an affecting if uneven adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2007 bestseller

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Featuring convincing performances from Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, Beast is a gripping crime thriller which follows a 27-year old unleashing her wild side after meeting a mysterious local

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The latest outing from Four Weddings and a Funeral director, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society needs a little less bliss and little more bite

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Gold Whisper members see Juliette Binoche in Let the Sunshine In at the French Institute

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A long overdue take on the high school romance on the trials and tribulations of coming out, Love, Simon hits the right notes by not reinventing the wheel

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Featuring Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger, Midnight Sun follows a girl with a rare aversion to sunlight – but, wading through sentimental slush, can’t convince us to take it seriously

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The Shape of Water is a cross-genre triumph, and Guillermo del Toro's best film since Pan's Labyrinth

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Paul Thomas Anderson's enchanting and haunting tale about a dressmaker in 1950s London and his muse will be Daniel Day-Lewis's last role before retirement

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Here are our predictions for what will win big at the Academy Awards...and what deserves to

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Spielberg's government-bashing biopic starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, Wes Anderson' animated Asian adventure and Daniel Day-Lewis' swan song: the best films coming out in 2018 feature some serious gems

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Emma Stone and Steve Carell take to the court in this hugely entertaining drama that's about much more than tennis

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women gives an entertaining account of the life of creator of Wonder Woman, and the lovers who influenced him

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Norwegian director Joachim Trier's Thelma is a visually stunning, if uneven, supernatural thriller

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Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool traces fading Hollywood darling Gloria Grahame’s real-life relationship with a humble Liverpudlian – but the movie is outshone by its own film stars

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Andy Serkis makes his directorial debut with Breathe, a sentimental biopic about a polio sufferer starring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy

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Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name is a heady coming-of-age drama about desire, ripe for rewatching with dazzling performances from Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer

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Blade Runner 2049 is a seriously stunning sci-fi film that picks up where Ridley Scott’s neon-lit neo-noir cult classic left off – and might just take home the gold

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One of the winners at the Sundance Film Festival, Dina is an intimate documentary of a developmentally disabled couple which rings truer than most scripted romantic dramas