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Pearl - There's a farm and a girl and a dance with a scarecrow, but nary a yellow-brick road in sight, in this blood-soaked prequel to the same director's X. It's 1918...

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods (IMAX in some cinemas) - A galaxy of special effects partially offsets the handicap of dull heroes and only marginally more interesting adversaries in a sequel that offers us a combo of...

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Scream VI - In no film on record have you seen so many people stabbed violently so many times and still survive as in this one. With films like this, it's no wonder Britain and US...

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Creed III (IMAX in some cinemas) - There surely can't be too many cinemagoers out there dying to see this threequel - the 10th in the series triggered by the Oscar-winning Rocky back in the...

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What's Love Got to Do With It? - Not a reissue of the old Tina Turner biopic, but an Anglo-Pakistani romcom that starts brightly, but gradually outstays its welcome. Zoe (James) and her slightly...

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Son, The - Zeller's follow-up to The Father, which won an Oscar for Hopkins - who reprises his role here in a one-scene cameo - is a depressing but sadly convincing...

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Magic Mike's Last Dance - Dynamic soft-porn dancing in extensively on the menu here, as sexual positions and gyrations star in a display of slickly choreographed bump and grind on the dance...

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Blue Jean - Lesbians rule OK! I've certainly seen more lesbian stories in the past few months than those about gay men, and here's another, set in Thatcher's Britain, and...

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