Comedy

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Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence are literally star-crossed lovers in this problematic sci-fi romance also starring Michael Sheen

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Hailee Steinfeld and Woody Harrelson are deadpan delights in charming new film Edge of Seventeen, a successor to the best '90s teen comedies

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The Chi-Raq cast are valiantly sincere, but Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) has directed a faintly embarrassing musical

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Irony and black comedy return in this revival of Dead Funny, starring Katherine Parkinson and Ralf Little

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The Street Cat Named Bob movie is sweet but not sentimental, an almost-Christmas film that's not too heartwarming

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The Greasy Strangler isn't quite as bad as it sounds, which is its main flaw

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The Guard director John Michael McDonagh's latest 'corrupt cop comedy' is woefully misjudged

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This film about Barack and Michelle's first date is a political film first and foremost, but still finds time to give new meaning to the word 'Obamacare'

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Greg Kinnear and Alfred Molina star in one of the most accomplished indie films to come out this year

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Director Taika Waititi's roaming, outdoors comedy is both visceral and surreally funny

Features

As the weather cools the cinema schedule is heating up with some surprisingly good films out later this year: here we select the upcoming film releases that shouldn't be missed

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In cinemas this weekedn: Sundance festival hit Captain Fantastic is the new Little Miss Sunshine, with a bus-load of kooks on a journey of discovery

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Will Poulter and Cara Delevingne go to Notting Hill Carnival. 2016 gets its worst movie. 2016 weeps bitter, bitter tears

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As he returns with new film Julieta, we look back at director Pedro Almodóvar's best films

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Cinema 

Are we getting a sort-of sequel? Big Lebowski spin-off reportedly in the works

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Theatre 

After a flurry of five star reviews from Edinburgh, Bridget Christie's Because You Demanded It brings 'electrifying' jokes about Brexit to London

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Life on the Road takes David Brent out of The Office - and, well, it's better than most Ricky Gervais movies

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What connects a little boy, two weirdos in love, a disaffected film school teacher and a dying woman? A small dachshund (obviously)

Interview

Any 'best films this year' list needs to include Chevalier - we talk to director Athina Rachel Tsangari to find out what makes it so good

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Winner of Best Film at London Film Festival 2015, director Athina Rachel Tsangari's psycho-comedy is a hilarious dissection of the masculine ego

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The return of Mark Rylance: Nice Fish comes to London and promises free tickets for people dressed up as fish

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Can't make it to the Royal Mile? Enjoy the highlights of 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival without leaving London

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Theatre 

Freddie Fox stars in a farcical, fresh take on Shakespeare's comedy directed by Simon Evans

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Jesse Eisenberg’s bitterly funny play brings the malaise of moneyed millennials from Off-Broadway to London's West End

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Deniz Gamze Ergüven makes an impressive debut with Mustang. Turkish film follows five sisters trapped at home in a remote village

Must See

We review Upstart Crow, BBC Two's raucous new sitcom based on the life of Shakespeare, as played by David Mitchell

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Scena Mundi theatre company scale down Shakespeare for a performance in a church

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Cinema 

New film from the Coen Brothers Hail, Caesar! satirises Hollywood in a glorious, glittering epic

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Profound, witty and thought-provoking, director Charlie Kaufman brings another quirky existential offering to the silver screen

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Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s latest film Saint Amour is a screwball pastoral comedy full of rustic heart

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Thomas Vinterberg's semi-autobiographical film about a 1970s hippie commune is an intelligent and bittersweet dramedy

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Julianne Moore is on ever-brilliant form as the jilted ex in Rebecca Miller's zany indie comedy