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Nope (IMAX in some cinemas) - Writer-director Poole, who kicked off his career with a cracker in Get Out, then hit the buffers with his second, Us, recovers some of that lost ground...

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Bullet Train - Mimicking a non-stop Korean action flick, this ultra-violent comedy-thriller takes place in nearby Japan on a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto and beyond, 90 per cent of...

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Where the Crawdads Sing - This virtually all-woman project is a real retro movie that could easily have come out of Warner Brothers in the early 1960s. And its plot is about as convincing as...

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Railway Children Return, The - The title should more properly be something like More Railway Children, as the action here moves forward 40 years from the 1970 original. It's 1944 and Bobbie...

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Thor: Love and Thunder (3D in some cinemas) - A good two steps down from the admirable Thor: Ragnarok, this new adventure of the hammer-wielding Norse god (Hemsworth) substitutes goofy comedy for sly wit,...

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Elvis (IMAX in some cinemas) - Luhrmann's film about the best-selling record artist of all time tries to be a serious look at the man, his love of 'black' music and his espousal of civil rights...

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Lightyear - This spin-off from the character originally seen in the Toy Story movies is a crushing disappointment. Space ranger/pilot Buzz Lightyear (Evans) crashes his...

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Listen - Social services, who have succumbed to a fair share of appalling failings in the 21st century, are portrayed as the out-and-out villains in this depressing Ken...

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