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Spanish actress Karla Sofia Gascon plays the titular Emilia Perez, a Mexican drug lord who has undergone gender surgery.

This bonkers Oscars fave might be the most divisive film of the year

Emilia Perez is a Spanish musical about a trans Mexican drug lord who has a social justice awakening. Yes, that old tale.

  • Robert Moran

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Lily-Rose Depp in a scene from Nosferatu

This vampire flick doesn’t suck – but it is a little bloodless

Indie director Robert Eggers has always been willing to acknowledge his sources, but he struggles to break free of them in this vampire flick.

  • Karl Quinn
Paddington in Peru sends the much-loved bear home on a mission to find his missing aunt.

Life has changed for Paddington, but thankfully he’s still a very delightful bear

The third film in the popular franchise sends the Brown family to Peru in search of a missing Aunt Lucy.

  • Sandra Hall
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Summer holidays movie special: Our critics’ picks of the flicks

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Celeste Dalla Porta.

This is a film you can drift through, enchanted and sceptical at once

Starring Celeste Dalla Porta and Gary Oldman, Parthenope takes place in the kind of that world high-end advertising conjures up.

  • Jake Wilson
Jim Carrey as Ivo Robotnik and Gerald Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Jim Carrey’s showboating double-act can’t save Sonic the Hedgehog 3

The comedian takes on a second role as Dr Robotnik’s lookalike grandpa, which doubles the number of movie characters he’s played this decade.

  • Jake Wilson
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Kieran Culkin (left) and Jesse Eisenberg play cousins honouring their grandmother in A Real Pain.

Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg collide in this entertaining double act

A Real Pain follows two bickering cousins as they travel to Poland to honour their grandmother.

  • Jake Wilson
Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn) and Anora (Mikey Madison) are a mismatch made in heaven.

Crazy, stupid love: Anora takes you somewhere quite unexpected

The Cannes Palme d’Or winner about a stripper and her wealthy Russian suitor features a cast so spirited that anything seems possible.

  • Sandra Hall
Kani Kusruti (left) and Divya Prabha play housemates in the award-winning All We Imagine As Light.

Cannes award-winner breaks one of screenwriting’s biggest rules – and it works

All We Imagine As Light is a film of two halves, with loneliness and belonging at its centre.

  • Sandra Hall
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore play old friends who reconnect in The Room Next Door. 

It has its devotees, but Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton euthanasia drama left me cold

Spanish master director Pedro Almodovar’s English-language feature debut is visually rich but lacking in earthiness.

  • Craig Mathieson

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