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The Ballad of Shirley Collins

 

This wonderful, warm film centres on the ‘lost’ singer who made her most recent album at 82

Welcome newcomer Valkyrie is given a boozed-up, kicking-out-time vigour by Tessa Thompson Thor Ragnorak

 

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In Geostorm, most of the good, dumb action seems to have taken place before the opening credits roll Geostorm

 

Dr Gerard Butler. Let that one sit with you for a while

Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor in The Death of Stalin The Death of Stalin

 

Given the mortal terror, Armando Iannucci’s latest political satire is weirdly light on its feet

Is the voiceover a case of panda-ing to the American market? Earth One Amazing Day

 

Robert Redford has been drafted in for the big-screen voiceover. It’s all sorts of wrong

Margaret Mulubwa in I Am Not a Witch I Am Not a Witch

 

Rungano Nyoni’s knockout debut tackles the treatment of ‘witches’ in Zambia

Chadwick Boseman in Marshall Marshall

 

This clunky Thursgood Marshall biopic still (annoyingly) works a crude magic on the viewer

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic My Little Pony: The Movie

 

Feature-length update of now snub-nosed equine will appeal to kids and Bronies alike

Vince Vaughn: brooding brilliance Brawl in Cell Block 99

 

Brawl in Cell Block 99 review: Vaughn has never brooded bigger and badder than he does here

    The Snowman

 

Tomas Alfredson’s slice of Scandi noir is the kind of thriller that now belongs on TV

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As we move towards high season the cinemas still groan with interesting, eccentric alternatives

Let’s talk about the It trailer
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The promo for the first episode in the two-part Stephen King adaptation has attracted a lot of attention

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