Drama
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Exclusive: The Danish director’s The House That Jack Built ‘celebrates the idea that life is evil and soulless, which is sadly proven by the recent rise of the Homo trumpus – the rat king’
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Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a cabinet minister hosting one of those dos at which shock revelation follows shock revelation, in Sally Potter’s short, smart comedy
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Annette Bening stars as a single mother who recruits two women to help raise her son in this warm drama set in the late 70s
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Ang Lee’s novel attempt at capturing PTSD mars this version of Ben Fountain’s novel about a young soldier with divided loyalties
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Denzel Washington is exhausting as a sanitation worker in this dense adaptation of a play about racial tension
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The Native American actor and breakout star of Certain Women on stereotyped casting, her famous forebears and horseback riding with Kristen Stewart
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Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall, Richard Gere and Steve Coogan star in a dull, shouty, unconvincing film about four people discussing their children over a fancy meal
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Even starring with her very similar-looking daughter, Huppert seems disconnected from this dismal family drama. And as a tennis coach, she’s no Judy Murray
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Alice Lowe directs and stars in this cracking tale of a pregnant woman who turns killer on the instructions of her unborn child
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Annette Bening gives a fine central performance but this kooky comedy suffers badly from unfocused direction and an unmistakable air of self-indulgence
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This tale of interplanetary young love falls apart upon take-off with a storyline that offers no surprises and fetishises its protagonist’s debilitating illness
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The rereleased 1976 shocker in which Robert De Niro roams night-time New York is fixed firmly in the past – but its visceral horror remains undimmed
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Distribution backer Speedee alleges Matthew McConaughey money drama Gold came out too close to McDonald’s entrepreneur biopic starring Michael Keaton
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He had a hand-to-mouth childhood in a rough neighbourhood, then went to a football college. So how did the 37-year-old end up making the film of the year?
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Maren Ade’s German comedy-drama finds excruciating humour and great pathos in a surreal collision between father and daughter
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As his film goes head to head with La La Land for Oscar glory, the playwright tells how growing up in the Miami projects inspired his view of America
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Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton star as an interracial couple in 1950s Virginia in Jeff Nichols’s wonderful true-life drama
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Matthew McConaughey as a repulsive mineral prospector exposes the naked greed of the American dream, but Stephen Gaghan’s film can’t dig any deeper
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After a childhood under Nazi occupation, the director has made a career of laying bare society’s cruelty. Revenge drama Elle is his latest message from the danger zone
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The Irish-Ethiopian actor gives an Oscar-worthy performance in Jeff Nichols’ film about the effects of Jim Crow racism on a mixed-race couple in 1950s Virginia
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This film about a 1990s financial scandal lacks the requisite insight and satirical wit, leaving McConaughey’s gold miner hero to seem smug and grandstanding
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Milla Jovovich returns for yet another high-impact action thriller set in a zombified world dripping with yucky horror-violence
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There are plenty of laughs in Maren Ade’s unsettling, uproarious story of a family struggling to connect, but the funny thing is – it’s not really a comedy
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Fans of the manga series and films are legion, but this latest animated adventure is unlikely to appeal to the unconverted
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