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Belfast film review: Kenneth Branagh’s memoir is black-and-white and rose-tinted all over

The film is aggresively apolitical but as romanticised reverie it could hardly be bettered

Cow: Affecting but unsentimental portrait of animal life

Andrea Arnold’s film shows how we have stripped the character away from animal lives

Sidney Poitier, who has died aged 94, was one of cinema’s most beautiful giants

Donald Clarke: The mellifluous Poitier didn’t just break down barriers, he was also of the great movie stars

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: Starry but misfiring biopic

Benedict Cumberbatch plays yet another eccentric in this portrait of a Victorian artist

Spider-Man No Way Home film review: Oh no, it’s for the fans

The latest outing is still lighter on its feet than most of the Marvel Comic Universe

Spencer: Kristen Stewart’s casting as a brittle Princess Diana is inspired

She balances trepidation with determination in Pablo Larraín’s spaced-out fantasia

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life – A remarkable documentary

Film review: It may not be innovative, but this biography is still extraordinary

Herself: Delayed portrayal of housing crisis loses none of its relevance

Writer-star Clare Dunne shines in this irresistible drama

I Never Cry: A Polish-Irish comedy of difference with a revelatory lead

Piotr Domalewski’s new film works best as a showcase for the terrific Zofia Stafiej

Deerskin: Jean Dujardin excels as a man in love with his jacket

Review: Clothes maketh the man in this perplexing and darkly funny film

Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel swansong is a cut above

Florence Pugh steals the show in the latest, mercifully fun superhero outing in the MCU

Gunda: The uncomfortable truth about how a sausage is made

Viktor Kossakovsky’s film raises profound questions about our dominion over animals

Army of the Dead: Inventive pulp on a massive scale

Review: Zack Snyder has a ball proving trash can triumph in this zombie horror heist flick

Cowboys: Questions of identity in macho America

Film review: Strong performances carry this good-hearted road movie

Two Ways Home: A drama about bipolar disorder that might do some good

Review: Tanna Frederick is terrific in a film about mental illness that avoids preachiness

Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand

John Patrick Shanley defends accents of Emily Blunt, Christopher Walken and Jamie Dornan

Rialto: A searing Dublin movie that will stay in your brain

Film review: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s towering performance lifts the film above the misery

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Chemical Hearts: Following the teen angst formula with flair

Review: The film deals with the trials of Gen Z, but could apply to any generation

The Traitor: There’s a gripping Mafia story buried somewhere in here

Film review: This true-life mafioso-turned-snitch tale thinks it’s a documentary

Dating Amber: Agreeable comedy about a fake romance in 1990s Ireland

Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft

Lucy in the Sky: Terrible title, curiously earthbound tale

Review: Natalie Portman is hidebound as an astronaut heading for a nervous breakdown

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