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Breakthrough - Those priceless critics' crib-sheets - better known, perhaps, as press notes - inform us that this saccharine story of 'unfaltering love in the face of impossible odds'...

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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum - The sequel strikes again. Which should come as no surprise since, with the previous two John Wick action thrillers claiming a fortune at the box office, it was...

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Amazing Grace - Back in 1972 (January, to be exact) Aretha Franklin. accompanied by the Reverend James Cleveland ('She could easily have gone into a studio. She wanted to do it here')...

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Hustle, The - A misfiring feminist remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which was itself a remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story. Alas, Hathaway and Wilson can't come...

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Where Hands Touch - This story of a wartime struggle for survival has been on the shelf for a couple of years, and gets an airing now presumably on the strength of the phenomenal young...

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Curse of La Llorona, The - A neat little horror film that never deviates from its central theme. A malevolent 17th-century Mexican poltergeist-style ghost, the 'weeping woman', attacks single...

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Long Shot - Here's a (very crude) romcom that wants it all ways. Its better moments, however, are consistently undercut by the thought of how ridiculous this all is, even as the...

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Vanishing, The - Once upon a time - well, 1900, actually - three lighthouse keepers disappeared from a Scottish lighthouse. Now, armed with an effective, extremely foul-mouthed...

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