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Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett and Vanessa Kirby join Tom Cruise for Mission: Impossible — Fallout, the stunning sixth instalment of the action film series

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In Hotel Artemis, Jodie Foster tops off a cast including Sofia Boutella and Sterling K. Brown in a dark yet lighthearted film set in a deeply criminal future L.A.

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Swelling with small screen British talent, Swimming with Men sees Rob Brydon fight his mid-life crisis by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team

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The latest from Winter's Bone director Debra Granik, Leave No Trace is a memorable and moving drama about those teetering on the edge of the American dream

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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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Still stylish, with plenty of machismo from leads Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, Sicario 2: Soldado is a less brainy, more brawny but fitting follow-up to the 2015 original

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Rising stars Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) and Sam Clafin save the sinking script of latest nautical survival drama, Adrift

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Boasting a stellar performance from model-actress Diane Kruger, In the Fade tracks one woman's lonely fight for justice in a country not quite finished with its dark nationalist past

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The Ciambra is an effective and affecting expose of life on the fringes of Italian society and an overdue update on one of the country’s defining cinematic ages

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Touted as the best horror movie of the year, Hereditary is also stunning drama about the ravages of grief and the menace of family featuring an outstanding Toni Collette

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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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In the first trailer for the remake of romantic music drama A Star is Born, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper join forces

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The latest offering from François Ozon, L'Amant double is a ripe gorgonzola of a film that will be enjoyed by drunk film students for years to come

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

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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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From the producers of The Babadook comes Netflix film Cargo, an Australian thriller held together by a convincing performance from Martin Freeman

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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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A revenge story of cosmic proportions from visionary director Panos Cosmatos featuring a career-defining performance from Nicolas Cage, Mandy has us holding on to our seat

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Cannes’ opening night: From influential director Asghar Farhadi and starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Everybody Knows (Todos Los Saben) is a fine-tuned family drama that sometimes falls flat

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Starring Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike, Entebbe teases out one of the Middle East’s tensest moments but struggles to make us see events in a new light

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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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Charlie Plummer makes a star turn in Lean on Pete, the latest from British writer-director Andrew Haigh about hardship with a soft heart centred on a boy and his horse

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Juno director Jason Reitman's latest portrait of motherhood, Tully sees Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis bond but makes a minor misstep at the very end

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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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An accomplished debut from French director Xavier Legrand, Custody is a masterclass in Hitchcockian suspense centred on a child stuck in his parents' broken marriage

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Adapted from the successful stage play, Ghost Stories centres on a skeptical parapsychologist trying to resolve three 'unexplainable' cases, featuring Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and Martin Freeman

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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