Comedy

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A new David Copperfield: Dev Patel plays Dickens' hero in new Iannucci adaptation

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An Edinburgh Fringe hit inspired by an extreme love of Dolly Parton, and Dolly the sheep comes to Soho Theatre

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Boyhood director Richard Linklater's latest film Last Flag Flying boasts a star trio jostling with patriotism and nostalgia but it gets stuck in the early 2000s

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The bitterly funny and surprisingly affecting Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a welcome return to form for In Bruges writer-director Martin McDonagh

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Spielberg's government-bashing biopic starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, Wes Anderson' animated Asian adventure and Daniel Day-Lewis' swan song: the best films coming out in 2018 feature some serious gems

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James Franco is wildly funny in The Disaster Artist – a deeply heartfelt, though utterly conventional, homage to the ‘greatest worst movie ever made’

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A well-intentioned George Clooney-Coen brothers project, Suburbicon tries to get to the heart of America’s biggest issue but ends up on the very outskirts of acceptable

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Emma Stone and Steve Carell take to the court in this hugely entertaining drama that's about much more than tennis

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Aubrey Plaza stars in Ingrid Goes West: a send-up of social media that's not funny enough to be a comedy and not profound enough to be a drama

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Paddington 2 is not just one of the best family films this season, but simply one of the very best releases of 2017

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Theatre 

A new dark comedy performed by British performance artist Victoria Melody, her celebrity dad, Mike Melody, and a New Orleans Jazz band rocks the Battersea Arts Centre this autumn

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Dan Stevens stars as Charles Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas, a festive biopic which follows the author as he works on the Yultide classic, A Christmas Carol

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Childhood fantasy and social realism mix to brilliant effect in in The Florida Project, the latest film from innovative independent director Sean Baker. Willem Dafoe features.

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'The Transvestite Potter' takes to the stage to discuss art, identity, and popularity in the age of Brexit and Trump

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Theatre 

Mischief Theatre Company invite audiences to help create a live movie adventure based on new suggestions each show

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Cinema 

The Thick of It and Veep creator Armando Iannucci brings The Death of Stalin – a shockingly dark comedy about the collapse of the Soviet regime with a stellar cast

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Matt Damon stars in Downsizing, a whimsical though largely disappointing sci-fi comedy by writer-director Alexander Payne

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71 minutes of middle-class mischief and mayhem in black-and-white, The Party is a modern classic. Here are five more films to watch before you see it

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Noah Baumbach's family drama is a totally superlative comedy, with standout performances from a talented cast

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Kristin Scott Thomas leads an all-star cast in The Party, a wickedly funny dark comedy by writer-director Sally Potter

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One of the winners at the Sundance Film Festival, Dina is an intimate documentary of a developmentally disabled couple which rings truer than most scripted romantic dramas

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Set in London, Daphne is a brilliant examination of big city loneliness centred on its whip-smart tragicomic title character, played impeccably by Emily Beecham

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Reese Witherspoon glows in Home Again, a light and airy rom-com with a twist directed by Nancy Meyers’ daughter — but it’s not an entirely successful, or necessary, reinvention

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Make the obligatory Love Actually Christmas binge extra special this December with a live orchestra screening

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Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud ruffled some feathers in the Middle East with her debut feature but, controversy aside, In Between is accomplished, poignant and, at times, genuinely empowering

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Alopecia, asthma, and attraction to boys: Matt Lucas talks about his memoir Little Me: My Life from A-Z with the how to: Academy

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Theatre 

Chris Thompson's dark family comedy, Of Kith and Kin, comes to the Bush Theatre

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Booking for the 61st BFI London Film Festival is open. Here's our pick of the latest and greatest films that are going to sell out fast

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Eddie Izzard, 'Marathon Man', transgender political activist, and comedian talks about his latest role in biopic Victoria and Abdul, working with Judi Dench and his new lease on life

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Tom Cruise's perverse likeableness tips this humdrum true-story account into watchability

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An all-American joyride starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and Daniel Craig, Logan Lucky is a hilarious heist film – with heart – from Ocean Eleven’s director, Steven Soderbergh

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This no holds barred comedy explores the surreal moments ahead of a one night stand