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Star Wars stalwart Rian Johnson gives the murder mystery genre a fresh spin thanks to an all-star cast. Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Chris Evans star
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Martin Scorsese is back with a new title, and a whole host of stars. The Irishman gives Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino the roles of a lifetime
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Cinema
Eliza Scanlen, Ben Mendehlson, Essie Davis: the biggest names from Australia play a family in crisis in Shannon Murphy's eccentric debut feature
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In his follow up to Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi brings his trademark wit to Nazi Germany: playing a little boy's imaginary friend – Adolf Hitler
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In Bad Education, Hugh Jackman plays Frank Tassone, a real superintendent who caused outrage when he embezzled money from his school and kept it for himself
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Cinema
In this new biopic of American actor Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), director Benedict Andrews examines her tumultuous involvement with an invasive FBI operation
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Cinema
Armando Iannucci (The Death of Stalin) kicks off the 63rd BFI London Film Festival with a fresh retelling of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
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Cinema
The lineup for this year's London Film Festival is finally here: Scorsese, Chalamet, Cannes gems and Sundance surprises are all coming to the big smoke soon
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Cinema
Levan Akin's balletic love story is one of this year's glimmering hidden gems, and captured the hearts of audiences at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year
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Cinema
Natalie Portman dazzles as an abrasive chameleonic popstar in Vox Lux, Brady Corbet's film of stardom and sorrow
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Cinema
Joaquin Phoenix, John C Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Riz Ahmed star in The Sisters Brothers, the new Western from French director Jacques Audiard
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Cinema
Photographer Richard Billingham revisits his childhood with a powerful stillness and love laced with dysfunction in his debut feature film Ray & Liz
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Cinema
In Colette, Keira Knightley goes against the norms of 19th century society – sleeping with men, women, and writing the most popular French novels of the time
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Cinema
The stars of Stan & Ollie, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, are absorbing in the new Laurel and Hardy biopic following the comedy duo's 1953 tour
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Cinema
The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos' new film, lets Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz run wild in a lustful story of 18th century royalty
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Cinema
Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny play forbidden lovers in Lizzie: a biographical thriller about the Borden murders and the man who made it happen
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A Ghost Story director David Lowery teams up with Robert Redford for his final role in The Old Man and the Gun, the true story of gentleman criminal Forrest Tucker
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Dakota Johnson dances with witches in Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a disturbing new 'homage' to Dario Argento's 1977 cult classic
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In cinemas for one week before it hits Netflix, the Coen Brothers head West in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a fun journey of cartoons and chaos
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Cinema
British social-realist filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to historical drama, but on a far grander scale. Starring Maxine Peake, Peterloo tackles the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester
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With Been So Long, Netflix heads to Camden and lets Michaela Coel shine as a single mother who finds romance in a neon soaked musical
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Cinema
London Film Festival is in full swing. For the busiest week in the film calendar this year, here are the best films to catch and tickets to book right now
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Chris Pine and director David Mackenzie return together in a new medieval Netflix film, in which Scotland is (once again) trying to free itself from the English
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Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes is back with Sunset, a mysterious tale of a woman in a Budapest hat shop during the lead up to World War I
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Ben Wheatley's excellent new comedy Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is a dizzy exploration of family and its many burdens
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Closing the BFI London Film Festival in a couple of weeks, the new trailer for Stan & Ollie shows Laurel & Hardy at their best.
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Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence) returns with Evolution, a chilling film about a remote island, a mysterious medical treatment and a curious boy
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Tom Hiddleston & Sienna Miller star in J.G. Ballard's sci-fi classic adapted for the big screen
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Film review: The Witch from director Robert Eggers is a period horror with oodles of style
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John Crowley's film adaptation of Brooklyn is a shining romance, performed with poignance by Saoirse Ronan
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New film about the controversial Apple pioneer has the dual talents of Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender at the helm
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Jay Roach's biographical drama Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston arrives at London cinemas