Drama films
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2 out of 5 stars.The seventh entry in the franchise, with its weird cultists, takes a few original steps off the well-beaten hillbilly horror path
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2 out of 5 stars.Alexis Zabé’s mini-doc about a Venice Beach homeless community is the pick of this studiously serious grab-bag of shorts shot in lockdown
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Continuing our series of writers defending unloved films is a reappraisal of Andrew Niccol’s flop satire starring Al Pacino as a director who creates a virtual actor
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4 out of 5 stars.A sultry Roman backwater provides the oppressive setting for this story of three disaffected families from the D’Innocenzo brothers
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Teen drama wins big as His House takes awards for actress and director while Anthony Hopkins is honoured for The Father
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2 out of 5 stars.Wendi McLendon-Covey’s bored wife Cathy endures a series of seriocomic crises but they never really lead anywhere
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Chloé Zhao’s stunning Oscar frontrunner unusually centers a single woman over 60 to illuminate an America that rarely garners mainstream attention
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3 out of 5 stars.Joe Manganiello plays Max Fist, a super powerful fighter for good from another world, in a colourful sci-fi-adjacent film
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1 out of 5 stars.A perplexing erotic storyline isn’t the worst thing about this sci-fi mystery, which is marred by wooden acting and poor judgement
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3 out of 5 stars.The boxer turned actor anchors this tale of a UK photographer who travels to Senegal after the death of his estranged father
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4 out of 5 stars.Superbly shot, the D’Innocenzo brothers’ film focuses on families, neighbourly envy and the feral behaviour of men which culminates in tragedy
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Unlike breakout hits Crazy Rich Asians and The Farewell, the acclaimed drama avoids a culture clash narrative and focuses on a more universal theme
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4 out of 5 stars.Radu Jude dramatises the case of a disenchanted teenager turned in to the secret police in 1980s Romania in this chilling work of filmed theatre
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Week in geek Lost in the multiverse: will Spider-Man ever find his way home?