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Lighthouse, The - This is like Long John Silver meets Norman Bates, and not in a good way. In a film shot in a black-and-white process as murky as the 19th century weather, two keepers...

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Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, A - This riff on last year's excellent documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? finds evangelical children's TV presenter and all-round good egg Fred Rogers (here...

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Richard Jewell - Another rock-solid movie (the 38th) from the veteran Eastwood, now 89, this time an exposure of an appalling near-miscarriage of justice, involving the title character...

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Personal History of David Copperfield, The - For all those worried by the lack of ethnic diversity in this year's BAFTA and Oscar nominations, director Iannucci has done his best to redress the balance by casting...

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Just Mercy - In the past few months, we seem to have been deluged with films that are up to half an hour too long. But here's one whose impact is actually muted by its own length. ...

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Hidden Life, A - Yet another true story, this time about an Austrian conscientious objector in WW2. Franz (Diehl) is a farmer and bellringer, married to the deeply religious Fani...

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Waves - We should say right away that, whatever its merits, this is not a film to see if you're feeling depressed or even a bit down. It makes the average Ken Loach picture...

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Bombshell - The darker side of Nine to Five is examined in this talky, busy drama dealing with the 'toxic' atmosphere at Fox TV News in the early 2000s, when one women...

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