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Drop: As suspenseful as anything I’ve experienced in a cinema for ages
Meghann Fahy plays a woman having the worst night of her life as a series of mysterious threatening phone messages wrecks a first date.
- by Jake Wilson
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This bonkers film about killer unicorns is less far-fetched than you’d think
Death of a Unicorn is inspired by real-life artworks that still perplex art historians to this day.
- by Nell Geraets
The mother in this film is so awful she couldn’t be anything but real
Director Matthias Glasner turns his bleak upbringing into an award-winning – and unexpectedly funny – film.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
★★★
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Historic bluesfest or semi-comic bloodfest? Sinners is both
Marvel director Ryan Coogler goes Southern Gothic in this tale of identical twins and an Irish vampire with a taste for the blues.
- by Sandra Hall
★★★
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Iraq war film feels like the real thing … until it doesn’t
Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza base Warfare on an incident that involved a Navy SEAL platoon in 2006.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★
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Richard Roxburgh’s nervy intensity works in a film about despair in an Egyptian prison
The Rake star plays jailed journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.
- by Sandra Hall
Critics despised this 2000s film. Real fans know the truth
It was nominated for worst picture at the Razzies and now has a 27 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes, but this is the people’s horror movie.
- by Tom W Clarke
Bad Genius is smart but fails to fulfil its early promise
This Hollywood remake of a 2017 Thai hit tracks a brainy high-schooler who has to break the rules to achieve her dreams.
- by Jake Wilson
Rami Malek is no action hero – and that’s the point in The Amateur
When a nerdy CIA cryptographer, played by Malek, determines to avenge the death of his wife, ingenuity is his most potent weapon.
- by Sandra Hall
This stuntman has put the world’s biggest stars in peril. Finally his craft will be recognised
Guy Norris helped create nail-biting stunts in movies such as Mad Max and Suicide Squad. The Oscars will acknowledge his craft with a new award.
- by Garry Maddox
Chicken jockey! Why Minecraft movie sessions are total chaos
Screenings of the video game adaptation are being met with such extreme excitment that warnings are being issued and police have been called.
- by Nell Geraets
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