drama

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Cinema 

Spend a sublime couple of hours with Robert De Niro and the rest of the Goodfellas cast by watching Scorsese's gangster masterpiece

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Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, and Kyle Chandler star in Manchester by the Sea, the new drama by director Kenneth Lonergan (Margaret)

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Directed with tenderness by Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann is an off-beat comedy with its eye on embarrassing parents

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Director David Frankel (Marley and Me, The Devil Wears Prada) looks set to dazzle with an all-star cast that includes Will Smith and Kate Winslet.

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Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver star in the new epic drama directed by Martin Scorsese. Silence has conviction, but feels like it's preaching to the choir

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Ed Harris stuns in this revival of Sam Shepard's brutal portrait of a broken America

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In The Pass, Russell Tovey plays a conflicted footballer struggling to reconcile his vocation with his orientation

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For director, writer, and star Nate Parker, The Birth of a Nation was a personal project that became a troubled and controversial one

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The Ardennes is a taught, understated thriller with a satisfyingly climatic pay-off

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In the new Edward Snowden film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley wade through Oliver Stone's richly comical folly - and the results are mixed

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Clint Eastwood directs Aaron Eckhart and Tom Hanks' new movie Sully, dramatising the 'Miracle on the Hudson' and what came after

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Miles Teller boxing movie Bleed for This is solid, satisfying, and as subtle as a punch in the face

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Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani celebrate the small things in Paterson, the second film this month by Jim Jarmusch (Gimme Danger is also in cinemas)

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Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in Allied, 2016's campiest delight. Robert Zemeckis' new film is a delicious confection that's both sublimely silly and genuinely thrilling

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The new film by young Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski, United States of Love is a subdued and realistic look at love's different guises

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Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, and Dakota Fanning star in another mediocre adaptation of Philip Roth. American Pastoral is circumstantially interesting, however

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The Street Cat Named Bob movie is sweet but not sentimental, an almost-Christmas film that's not too heartwarming

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The Innocents film (2016) – known in France as Agnes Dei – is an intriguing and uncompromising drama from the director of Coco Before Chanel

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Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals movie was the Venice Film Festival 2016 lineup's most dazzling entry

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Rachel Weiz, Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender: movie-star gold that doesn't elevate this unconvincing adaptation of the book by M. L. Stedman

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The Rehearsal, the first novel by The Luminaries' Booker prize-winning author Eleanor Catton, has been adapted into a great New Zealand drama

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Kids 

Lupita Nyong'o is a standout in this superior 'sport movie' about Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi

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An intense Belgian drama starring Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), After Love is one of the most unremittingly accurate films about divorce

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For director Andrea Arnold, new film American Honey is a chance to take her visionary style to America. The results are so sublime, even Shia LaBeouf is good

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Theatre 

Dildos and debauchery end with an inevitable whimper as Dominic Cooper plays Restoration rogue John Wilmot

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Cinema 

This film about Barack and Michelle's first date is a political film first and foremost, but still finds time to give new meaning to the word 'Obamacare'