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Dakota Johnson plays a matchmaker torn between two men in Celine Song’s Materialists.

Celine Song blew us away with Past Lives. Is Materialists a perfect match?

Billed as a rom-com, the Dakota Johnson-Chris Evans-Pedro Pascal love triangle is actually a rather hard-headed look at marriage.

  • Karl Quinn

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Here You Come Again showcases Dolly Parton’s greatest hits.

Ten (or more) big shows to book now

From Annie to Michael Jackson to Cats, these blockbuster musical shows are either on now or on the way.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Nico Parker as Astrid, and Mason Thames as Hiccup.

Dragon live-action remake maintains a safe distance from reality

Writer-director Dean DeBlois evidently sees no need to mess with what worked in the past in this new version of How to Train Your Dragon.

  • Jake Wilson
Ana de Armas learns to fight like a girl in Ballerina.

Ana de Armas learns to ‘fight like a girl’ in John Wick spin-off

Ballerina takes risks as it tells the story of a graduate from an academy for assassins bent on revenge.

  • Jake Wilson
Ben Wang as Li Fong in Karate Kid: Legends.

The Karate Kid is back, and this time with Legends. But is it any good?

Ralph Macchio, Jackie Chan and an old Dawson’s Creek star are among the cast trying to breathe life into the latest iteration of the 40-year-old franchise.

  • Karl Quinn
Seann Miley Moore.

In a show for misfits, Seann Miley Moore revels in the power of Hedwig

The former Voice contestant stars in the subversive, immersive, rock-fuelled musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

  • Lenny Ann Low
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François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos in Beating Hearts.

French romantic drama Beating Hearts is in no hurry to reunite lovers

Director Gilles Lellouche has made a film of two halves as life takes two teenagers in wildly different directions

  • Jake Wilson
Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton and Michael Cera in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme.

Wes Anderson at his glorious best sends Benicio del Toro on an odyssey

With a cast also including Tom, Hanks, Scarlett Johansson and Benedict Cumberbatch, The Phoenician Scheme reminds us that the director is a true original

  • Sandra Hall
Maia Kealoha and Sydney Agudong in a Lilo & Stitch.

Fun and anarchy in Disney’s live action remake of Lilo and Stitch

The tale of a young orphan who finds herself looking after a fluffy, sharp-toothed alien is a more faithful transposition than Disney remakes of their older animated classics tend to be.

  • Jake Wilson
Sally Hawkins and Jonah Wren Phillips in Bring Her Back.

The Aussie twins who took the film world by storm are back. Be afraid

Danny and Michael Philippou’s latest fright fest deals with maternal grief and murder. Just as well they’re having so much fun.

  • Stephanie Bunbury

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