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Booking for the 61st BFI London Film Festival is open. Here's our pick of the latest and greatest films that are going to sell out fast

Interview

Eddie Izzard, 'Marathon Man', transgender political activist, and comedian talks about his latest role in biopic Victoria and Abdul, working with Judi Dench and his new lease on life

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Liar on ITV: The emotional thriller examining gender, family life, and the consequences of deceit...

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Buoyed by a dazzling Judi Dench, Victoria and Abdul is a retelling of the queen’s real-life intense friendship with an Indian servant which is charming to a fault

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Set in a small Syrian apartment as war rages outside, Insyriated strives to make a big impact but falls a little short of the mark

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Here's our list of the films to see this weekend – London's cinemas have the best movies out now

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Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn deserve better than this tin-eared adaptation of the David Harrower play Blackbird

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The best films out in September include Bill Nighy's brilliant muder-mystery and Jennifer Lawrence's surreal horror

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Detroit is a harsh, uneasy thriller by one of the genre's best directors

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Brace yourself for this latest adaptation of Agatha Christie’s best-selling book Murder on the Orient Express – 2017’s most star-studded cast is on board

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Luca Guadagnino, director of A Bigger Splash, looks at the ups and downs of first love in Call Me By Your Name, scripted by star-director James Ivory, featuring Armie Hammer

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Carrie, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Shining are among the classic King films being screened throughout September

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Dark Night is a deeply thoughtful film about modern America but one without a clear social conscience

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In Battle of the Sexes, Emma Stone plays Billie Jean King, a tennis champ determined to prove that men and women are sporting equals

Features

As with all gripping dramas based on true stories, Detroit isn't a straightforward viewing experience

Features

From Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo to Kirk Douglas' Van Gogh, here are the greatest portraits of the great artists

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Final Portrait, about the experience of sitting for a Giacometti painting, is a good likeness artfully composed

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Here's our pick of the best films out now in London's cinemas

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Cinema 

'Tom of Finland' drew joyous, taboo-busting gay cartoons, and this biopic tells his story

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A coming-out and coming-of-age story set in Yorkshire, God’s Own Country has the kind of rough surface grit that indicates real inner tenderness.

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The Ghoul has an interesting and frightening idea somewhere inside it, but is it worth seeking out?

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Land of Mine has a terrible punning title, but a brilliant heart-stopping premise

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Hound of Love is a deeply unpleasant film justified by its clever depiction of a dysfunctional relationship

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The Wall should be a taut, uber-tense chamber-piece with great performances. It's not

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The Big Sick, arriving in cinemas this weekend, is a romantic comedy film that manages to feel interesting and new. Fortunately, it's not the only one of its kind...

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The best films out in August include the new Kathryn Bigelow movie starring John Boyega, and a story of war to rival Dunkirk

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The Big Sick feels like a perfect balance between sincerity and snarkiness, a very contemporary rom-com along the lines of Man Down and In a World

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Dunkirk is, amongst other things, an efficient device for giving you anxiety. It's also glorious

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Netflix's latest film, To The Bone offers a misguided portrayal of an anorexic 20 year old. But it isn't all bad...

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The Beguiled is that strange thing: a Civil War movie with exclusively white characters. But that's just because it's a Sofia Coppola film

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Song to Song is, unfortunately, further proof that Terrance Malick needs to have a bit of a lie down

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Cinema 

The Midwife is a pleasant French-language with a vivid performance from Catherine Deneuve