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Mason Thames, Noah Cottrell, Julian Lerner and Abby James Witherspoon in Monster Summer.

Spielberg meets Stranger Things in this paranoid teen-horror fantasy

Monster Summer, which stars Mel Gibson, is reminiscent of Jaws, but with a more nebulous enemy.

  • Jake Wilson

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Heaven help us! Conclave’s divine drama at times defies belief

The film has all the hallmarks of a classic palace intrigue but stretches credibility to breaking point.

  • Jake Wilson
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
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
Boxing Day movie special

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

Already seen Wicked? Want a film that will please the family? Our reviewers have you covered from Boxing Day and beyond.

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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
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

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