In most ways Thelma is just your average shy fresher negotiating those awkward first weeks of university. Unlike your average first year student, however, Thelma also happens to possess a telekinetic mind. Norwegian director Joachim Trier's new thriller is richly atmospheric, visually stunning and more chilling than a long winter night.
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Set in the weird and wacky tourist utopia surrounding Disneyland, The Florida Project is a unique drama about America’s forgotten class that's filled with comedy and characters as warm as the Florida sun. The film follows young mother Hailey (Bria Vinaite) and her young daughter Monoee (Brooklynn Prince) as they stay in a motel full of eccentric characters and managed by an against-type Willem Defoe. Think The Grand Budapest Hotel with a socio-economic message.
Robert Pattinson shines (with both grease and talent) in this grimy, pulsating New York-set thriller about a conman and his handicapped brother. Pattinson, now something of an indie darling rather than teenage heart-throb, plays Connie, a real wastrel who urgently has to get his hands on $10,000 in order to bail his brother out of prison after a botched robbery. Serving us up with a gripping feature that's part Of Mice and Men part Mean Streets, directors Joshua and Ben Safdie more than deliver on their film's title.
Thought Blade Runner 2049 was the best sequel of the year? Think again. Paddington 2is a triumph of a family film that will charm both younger and grown up viewers. Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins and co. all return, but it's Hugh Grant who steals every scene as the hilarious self-parodying villain Phoenix Buchanan.
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There's no love lost between Emma Stone and Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes, a very entertaining account of the infamous 1973 tennis match between female top seed Billie Jean King and retired champion Bobby Riggs. With gender equality and personal relationships at stake, this one is about much more than what happens out on court.
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Carey Mulligan stars in a tragic story beautifully told, Mudbound is a subtle depiction of 1940s race relations in the mean and mucky Deep South. It's available on Netflix from 17 November.
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