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After the Storm is a tender slice-of-life story with no shortage of nuance

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The best films out in June include everything from the new Edgar Wright film to a new Holocaust documentary

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Top of the Lake: China Girl is a worthy companion piece to The Handmaid's Tale – an overtly feminist series starring Elisabeth Moss

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April's Daughter starts sedately enough, but it's when things get tastefully melodramatic that Michel Franco's film really gets interesting

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A Gentle Creature is anything but. It's a bitter, difficult creature that demands much from its audience

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With Based on a True Story, Roman Polanski covers familiar ground with uninspired results

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I Am Not Madame Bovary is Chinese Brecht seen through the wrong end of a telescope

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Good Time guarantees exactly that, as Robert Pattinson sheds the last of his heart-throb status

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The Beguiled has some wicked fun with its lust-drenched Civil War story

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The Other Side of Hope, the new film by Aki Kaurismäki, explores themes of home and displacement

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The Levelling is an intense study of family dysfunction, and a promising lead-role debut for Game of Thrones actress Ellie Kendrick

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For director Francois Ozon, Frantz is a romance with important things to say about politics today

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The Levelling is a restrained and accomplished debut. We ask the filmmakers how they managed it

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Jawbone is a rough, tough drama with a sensitive side

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Heal the Living is one of the best films of the year so far. We interview its brilliant young director

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The talented Katell Quillévéré (Love Like Poison) directs this gorgeous tale of life rejuvenated

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Brand new period drama Jamestown arrives on Sky1, following the lives of early British settlers in America

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Written and directed by Danièle Thompson, Cézanne et Moi charts the tempestuous relationship between artists Émile Zola and Paul Cézanne

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Lady Macbeth is a cold, composed drama with a superb performance at its centre

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Their Finest might be just feel-good fun, but when it makes you feel this good – and is this fun – that's something to appreciate

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Things go from small to scary in this ingenious single-space drama from Mohamed Diab, set amid unrest in Egypt in 2013

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Sex, hammers, and octopi – the most exciting films by the best Korean directors

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The Sense of an Ending is a muted but endearing adaptation of the novel by Julian Barnes

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Neruda is a quirky post-modern biopic about Chile's most famous poet that will irritate some and charm others

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One of the best films of the 2000s was 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Director Cristian Mungiu returns with Graduation, a film that's just as bleak and brilliant

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New Terence Davies film A Quiet Passion – an Emily Dickinson biopic starring Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) – is an unusual marvel

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Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini star in The Salesman, directed by Asghar Farhadi – Oscar-winner at the 2017 Academy Awards

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Starring Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper – Olivier Assayas' (Carlos, Clouds of Sils Maria) latest film – is all kinds of unsettling. We talk to the director himself

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With new Kristen Stewart film Personal Shopper, director Olivier Assayas makes compelling cinema that's hard to define

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Kim Jee-woon adds to the long list of great South Korean films with an espionage drama set in the 1920s

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We ask some spoiler-free questions about the new Isabelle Huppert movie Elle

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In the playful and shocking new film by Paul Verhoeven, Elle, Isabelle Huppert plays the titular heroine with disconcerting self-possession