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Scene from the feature film Submergence (2018). A Backlot Films release.

Submergence doesn’t quite come up as it should

REVIEW: SUBMERGENCE is an elegantly meandering romantic drama which has a fine couple in Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy, but only a fleeting impact on viewers.

This image released by Focus Features shows John David Washington, left, and Laura Harrier in a scene from "BlacKkKlansman." (David Lee/Focus Features via AP)

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BlacKkKlansman tells it like it was — and still is today

A POWDER keg of restless energy, BlacKkKlansman detonates a series of controlled explosions across its generous running time. And thankfully, a master director like Spike Lee knows exactly when the fuse should be lit.

Amandla Stenberg as Ruby in a scene from film The Darkest Minds

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The Darkest Minds is dull, dull stuff

THE young-adult-dystopia bandwagon left town abruptly a few years ago so you kind of have to feel sorry for The Darkest Minds, which generates all the tension, urgency and desperation of a trip to your front gate and back.

This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Jason Statham in a scene from the film, "The Meg." (Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)

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Is this the year’s most irresistibly shonky action movie?

A TWO-million-year-old giant shark is happily living on the ocean floor until he is rudely disturbed by scientists. What follows just might make The Meg the biggest, dumbest and irresistibly shonky action movie of the year.

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Scene from the movie The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Review: Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

REVIEW: Most of your favourite past-it Brits are still living it largely for laughs and love in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

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Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in a scene from the movie A Most Violent Year

Review: A Most Violent Year

REVIEW: A Most Violent Year is an imposing urban crime drama, the kind that Paul Newman or Al Pacino would have starred in back in the day.

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Left to right: Sam Lerner is Quinn Goldberg, Jonny Weston is David Raskin, and Sofia Black D'Elia is Jessie Pierce in film PROJECT ALMANAC, from Insurge Pictures, in association with Michael Bay. - scene shows characters on stage at Lollapalooza music festival

Review: Project Almanac

REVIEW: Project Almanac is a likeable, lightweight, teen time-travel thriller that is let down by being filmed with shaky hand-held cameras.

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FILE - This file photo released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Michael Keaton, left, as Riggan in a scene from the film, "Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. (AP Photo/Copyright Twentieth Century Fox, Atsushi Nishijima, File)

Who’ll get an Oscar nod and snub

IS it Michael Keaton’s turn after his comeback in Birdman? Will Julianne Moore finally get an Oscar for Still Alice? Here’s our predictions.

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channing Tatum and Mila Kunis in film JUPITER ASCENDING

REVIEW: Jupiter Ascending

REVIEW: A Russian toilet cleaner and a half-man-half-dog in deep space. Every bit the non-classic it just has to be. Welcome to Jupiter Ascending.

Scene from the movie Rosewater, directed by Jon Stewart

REVIEW: Rosewater

REVIEW: Former host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, makes his directorial debut in the intriguing factual drama Rosewater.

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In this image released by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, Dakota Johnson, left, and Jamie Dornan appear in a scene from "Fifty Shades of Grey." The film is getting a big thumbs-down from religious and other groups who say it’s degrading to women and endorses sexual violence. One social media campaign is encouraging movie-goers to instead give their ticket and popcorn money to women’s shelters. Author EL James, who wrote the erotic trilogy that launched the film, has heard the backlash and says the critics have it all wrong. She says no woman wants to read about abuse, and that everything that happens is safe and consensual. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures and Focus Features)

Report card: Fifty Shades Of Grey

WITH further erratically erotic sequels now officially on the way, the time has come to grade the first Fifty Shades movie.

Fifty shades of Grey still. Picture: Universal

Leigh Paatsch review: Fifty shades of okay

FIFTY Shades of Grey is here but it’s not quite as steamy as you’d expect, writes Leigh Paatsch. It’s trashy but it’s not garbage.

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