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Good Woman is Hard to Find, A - Eventually as violent and dark a crime drama as you will see this year, this grim Northern Ireland-set piece does take forever to get going. If you can get past a...

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Farmageddon - The gags come thick and fast in this new adventure of the wily and inventive Shaun the Sheep and his woolly followers, not to mention Bitzer the farm dog who tries to...

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Official Secrets - A chilling if necessarily rather talky account of the case of Katharine Gun (Knightley), a GCHQ employee (spy), who, in 2003, leaked a secret memo from the US in a bid...

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Peanut Butter Falcon, The - There are echoes of such 'journey' films as The Adventures of Huck Finn in this glowingly shot (by Nigel Bluck), elegiac film in which you can almost smell and...

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Singin' in the Rain (reissue) - This famous MGM musical about the adventures of a matinee idol (Kelly) in the early days of Hollywood sound films is perhaps the most enduring ever to roll off the...

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Shining, The (reissue) - Kubrick's underrated chiller is one of those films that makes you check under the bed to see there's no one there after watching it - especially if you imagine Nicholson...

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Dolemite is My Name - Eddie who? Well, he may have faded for a while from the movie scene, but the old rapscallion shows he can still carry a film in this gaudy, loud and in-your-face...

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Gemini Man (3D) (IMAX in some cinemas) - Veteran government assassin Henry Brogan (Smith) finds he's being pursued by a young, cloned version of himself in this action-packed but slightly tired thriller, as the...

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