'Hunting Alice Bell', Channel 4's New Psychological Thriller, Should Be on Your Radar

This new psychological thriller blends family drama with social satire

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Nightborn review – Rupert Grint bringing up a monster baby

Dark forces give new parents more than they bargained with in this unsubtle Finnish horror from Hanna Bergholm

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Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target

Lance Oppenheim’s drama about controversial US reality show To Catch a Predator is unsure what it wants to say about media or morality

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Gentle Monster review – disquieting drama about two women facing the truth about the men they love

Léa Seydoux is a wife and mother whose life unravels when police arrive to quiz her husband; Jella Haase is a detective dealing with her ailing father’s misdeeds

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The Devils review – Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale is a frenzied aria of confrontation and hysteria

Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave put in the performances of their lives in this film originally banned for obscenity that highlights the violence of power

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Wicker review – Olivia Colman finds the perfect lover in intriguing folk-horror romance

Colman stars as a depressed and bullied fisherwoman in medieval England. Fortunately, Peter Dinklage’s basketmaker delivers the answer to her dreams – an Alexander Skarsgård made of wicker

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Wicker review – Olivia Colman finds the perfect lover in intriguing folk-horror romance

Colman stars as a depressed and bullied fisherwoman in medieval England. Fortunately, Peter Dinklage’s basketmaker delivers the answer to her dreams – an Alexander Skarsgård made of wicker

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I Love Boosters review – supercool outlaw women go shoplifting in Boots Riley’s frantic and funny caper

Demi Moore’s haute-couture maven attracts the attention of a gang of contemporary Robin Hood type clothes robbers in Riley’s fashion biz satire

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Patrick Stewart brought gravitas and complexity to the screen, from Star Trek to X-Men

From Jean-Luc Picard to Charles Xavier, the actor’s Shakespearean training – and that sonorous voice – made him a unique charismatic force in Hollywood

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Molesworth Rides Again!

Literature’s greatest schoolchild returns to save a new generation.

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These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling

A taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance film

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Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return

Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller

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Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship

Acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with an inspired account of an unhappy married couple befriended by a documentary maker and her wealthy husband

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Possible Love review – a tale of two couples is finely judged study of exploitation and friendship

Acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-dong returns with an inspired account of an unhappy married couple befriended by a documentary maker and her wealthy husband

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Wildwood review – Laika’s pleasingly old fashioned stop-motion magic-forest odyssey

The makers of Coraline return with their distinctive animation style in a magical tale of a secret world of strange beasts, talking animals and evil governesses

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Klara and the Sun review – Taika Waititi’s manic pixie dream robot sci-fi is a sentimental mess

The director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Jojo Rabbit turns Kazuo Ishiguro’s AI fable into a twee, tiresome tale of love and grief

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Making Marie Antoinette review – sweet Coppola home movie reveals the family business

Shot by Sofia’s mother Eleanor this documentary shows something of the strain of shooting a period piece, but is a far cry from the tumultuous portrait of her husband in Hearts of Darkness

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Scream review – Wes Craven meta horror remains super smart and scary 30 years on

Self-aware romp through the genre is redolent of the 90s but its ghost-masked killer is as alarming as ever

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Ali G: Who Iz I? review – Sacha Baron Cohen’s high-stakes satire punches up and down with spectacular bad taste

Baron Cohen’s live-ammo prankster is back, 20 years on, but has to battle with his own irrelevance in search of big laughs and the approval of a new generation

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The Digger disaster: what an epic movie flop means for Tom Cruise and Hollywood

Unprecedented folly of misjudgment, bad timing and spectacular hubris is predicted to lose $245m. How did this happen?

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Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked!

As his new movie The Debut closes the London film festival, we count down the best of the actor’s shy, sly and sometimes hairy outings

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The Yellow Tie review – John Malkovich gives major hauteur as legendary record-hating maestro

This biopic of Sergiu Celibidache, the renowned Romanian conductor who refused all recordings, is a sturdy labour of love directed by his son

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The Craft review – cult high-school horror a reminder of the fearless 90s

The 30th-anniversary rerelease of this classic tackles the sensitivities of teenage anxiety with energy and confidence

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24 Hour Party People review – daring metatextual paean to the Manchester music scene

Michael Winterbottom’s freewheeling 2002 film about Tony Wilson, champion of post-punk bands, couldn’t have starred anyone but Steve Coogan

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The Social Reckoning review – Aaron Sorkin’s jittery sequel with all-new evil puppet Zuckerberg

Jeremy Strong’s slow-talking Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to a thriller about a whistleblower that somehow never mentions Trump

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The Uprising review – Paul Greengrass turns revolutionary rage into a Robin Hood origin myth

Andrew Garfield’s fictional ploughman joins the historical heroes of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in a dirt-caked, docudrama-style film with disconcertingly silly moments

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Eva Marie Saint: the Hitchcock Blonde who outgrew the persona

Her glacial poise in North By Northwest made her a cinematic icon, but films including On the Waterfront and Loving revealed great subtlety alongside the glamour

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Digger review – Tom Cruise’s loudmouth oil tycoon goes hard in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eco-satire

One man’s irresponsible drilling causes a global crisis in Iñárritu’s exasperatingly laborious, self-congratulatory film

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Rapture review – cult Spanish horror is a deeply strange cheese dream of cinemania

Pedro Almodóvar provides a vocal cameo and his style can be traced back to this influential film

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