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Film of the Week: 'Thunderbolts*' - Florence Pugh to the MCU's rescue

The 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a step up from recent MCU offerings. But is it enough to renew faith in an ongoing saga that’s been on a downward trajectory? (And yes, that confounding asterisk in the title is explained.)

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Film of the Week: 'Sinners' - The best film of 2025 so far

Ryan Coogler returns with his most ambitious project yet - a Jim Crow period drama doubling up as a vampire horror that's thrilling and allegorically layered. It's the best film of 2025 so far.

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Film of the Week: 'Death Of A Unicorn' - Impale the rich!

Unicorns are real. And when it comes to revenge, they're not messing about. Shame that writer-director Alex Scharfman couldn't channel some of that focus...

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Film of the Week: 'Baby Invasion' - The worst film you'll ever see?

US director Harmony Korine’s second EDGLRD production, now available online, is shallow and mind-numbingly dull First-Person Shooter nonsense.

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Film of the Week: 'Snow White' - The poisoned apple you’re expecting?

Disney continues its exhausting plan of remaking its animated classics into live action / photorealist movies. Now comes the highly controversial adaptation of the studio’s landmark 1937 first animated feature... Is it as bad as the multiple scandals that have preceded its release?

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Film of the Week: ‘Mickey 17’ - Robert Pattinson(s)... In spaaaaaaace!

In the mood for a goofy, broad strokes futurist satire with Robert Pattinson acting opposite himself in the icy vastness of space? Bong Joon Ho has got you covered, with his first film since the Oscar-winning 'Parasite'.

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Film(s) of the Week: The 10 unfairly snubbed Oscar movies of 2025

Oscar snubs are to be expected. But these ones hurt.

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Film of the Week: 'The Brutalist' - An uncompromising triumph

Freshly nominated for 10 Academy Awards and a frontrunner for Best Picture alongside ‘Emilia Pérez’, Brady Corbet’s powerful American saga is astounding.

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Film of the Week: 'A Real Pain' - A moving and funny Holocaust tour

Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs and stars alongside a scene-stealing Kieran Culkin in this smart and deceptively profound exploration of generational trauma.

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Film of the Week: 'Babygirl' - Nicole Kidman shines in BDSM drama

‘Babygirl’ created quite the buzz when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, and it's already one of the most talked about films of 2025. Nicole Kidman stars as a woman willing to risk it all for a torrid affair which allows her deepest desires to finally surface.

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Film of the Week: 'Ainda Estou Aqui' ('I’m Still Here')

Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and shortlisted as Brazil’s pick for the Oscars’ Best International Feature category, Walter Salles' return to the big screen is not one you'll want to miss.

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Film of the Week: 'Nosferatu' - An exhumation worth watching?

Remaking a 102-year-old silent horror classic that is widely regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre? Best of luck, Robert Eggers.

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Film of the Week: 'Wicked' - 'You’re not being told the whole story!'

The big screen adaptation of the beloved Broadway show is here... And it only casts half a spell.

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Film of the Week: 'Gladiator II' - Are you not entertained?

24 years after the Oscar-winning 'Gladiator', Ridley Scott returns to the colosseum sandbox. The end result is difficult to dismiss but still hard to defend.

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Film of the Week: 'Bird' - The fantastical tale we need right now

Andrea Arnold's new film manages to fuse social and magical realism, in a harsh yet uplifting tale that will leave you ready to take flight.

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Film of the Week: 'Anora' - The Palme D’Or-winning anti-romcom

The director of 'Tangerine', 'The Florida Project' and 'Red Rocket' delivers a brilliant rollercoaster ride - a modern fairytale that doubles as a gut-punch tragedy. It deservedly won this year’s Palme d’Or in Cannes and could very well be on its way to Oscar glory.

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Film of the Week: 'Three Kilometres to the End of the World'

A well-observed and brilliantly acted indictment of homophobia and fundamentalism in rural Romania, which shows that while the decriminalisation of homosexuality can be enshrined by the law, hostile attitudes and tyrannous religious beliefs prevail.

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Film of the Week: 'Smile 2' - A bigger, scarier, superior sequel

“Lights, camera, bitch, smile / Even when you wanna die..." The sequel to 2022's 'Smile' may have taken Taylor Swift's lyrics a little too literally. But for its faults, this follow-up works.

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Film of the Week: ‘The Apprentice’ – The Donald Trump origin story

The controversial Donald Trump origin story hit Cannes earlier this year, with the Trump campaign vowing to sue. Now, with a bit more than three weeks before the presidential election, the film is out in theatres. And the question remains: Will there be an audience for ‘The Apprentice’?

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Film of the Week: 'Joker: Folie À Deux' - ‘Enough from the clown!’

The sequel to 2019’s Oscar-winning 'Joker' sees Lady Gaga join director Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix for a follow-up that isn’t a straightforward psychological thriller but a semi-jukebox musical. It’s a bold gambit. Shame it doesn't pay off. At all.