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This co-directorial debut of Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares considers a future London built on gentrification and police brutality. Stars Kano and Jedaiah Bannerman
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Cinema
Andrew Scott stars in this dreamy drama by Andrew Haigh, following a 40-something screenwriter who writes about his past. Also stars Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy
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Cinema
Emma Stone stars in this new Yorgos Lanthimos film, a twisted fairytale about a woman brought back to life with the brain of a child. Also stars Mark Ruffalo
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Cinema
Molly Manning Walker's directorial debut follows a teenage trio of girls navigating the Mediterranean party town of Malia after finishing their GCSEs. Stars Mia McKenna-Bruce
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Cinema
Joel Coen adapts and directs this new, black-and-white adaptation of the William Shakespeare play. Stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand and Brendan Gleeson
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Cinema
After Raw, director Julia Ducournau comes back swinging with her dark, twisted, Palme D'Or-winning second film. Agathe Rouselle and Vincent Lindon star
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Netflix
In Jane Campion's latest film, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a toxic cowboy on a wealthy ranch in Montana, 1925. Also stars Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee
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Netflix
Jeymes Samuel's new Black-led, revisionist Western features performances from Idris Elba, LaKeith Stanfield, Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Regina King and Delroy Lindo
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Cinema
Jackie director Pablo Larraín casts Kristen Stewart as the late Princess Diana in this new, speculative movie about her visit to Sandringham in 1991
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Cinema
In Edgar Wright's new horror film, Thomasin McKenzie stars as a fashion student who discovers a darker London in her dreams. Also stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith and Diana Rigg
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Wes Anderson returns in his latest symmetrical adventure, following a variety of eccentric journalists in 20th-century France. Elisabeth Moss, Timothée Chalamet, Frances McDormand and Léa Seydoux star
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TV
Jesse Armstrong's cut-throat comedy-drama – following the family-led media empire Waystar RoyCo – returns for a third season. Adrien Brody and Alexander Skarsgård also star
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Netflix
From Succession to Spencer, this year's London Film Festival is bursting at the seams with excellent titles – including 19 World Premieres
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Cinema
The third film from Irish director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!), Herself examines the best and worst in humanity as abused, working-class mum Sandra (Clare Dunne) builds herself a house
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Cinema
Supernova follows Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), a middle-aged gay couple. They embark on a campervan journey across the Lake District after a dementia diagnosis
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Cinema
In this family horror debut from Natalie Erika James, Kay (Emily Mortimer) and her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) try to find their missing matriarch Edna (Robyn Nevin)
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Cinema
Josephine Decker's 'anti-biopic' creates fictions to root out the truth of who the Haunting of Hill House author Shirley Jackson really was. Elisabeth Moss stars
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Cinema
BFI produced an excellent LFF this year, even with the lockdown measures, including the likes of Steve McQueen and Spike Lee. Here's a list of our favourites from the selection
Book Now
Cinema
Boasting big names like Steve McQueen, Spike Lee, David Byrne and Frances McDormand, this looks to be another cracking LFF – even with the Covid-19 restrictions
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Cinema
Eliza Scanlen, Ben Mendehlson, Essie Davis: the biggest names from Australia play a family in crisis in the eccentric film debut from Shannon Murphy (Killing Eve)
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Cinema
In Bad Education, Hugh Jackman plays Frank Tassone, a real superintendent who caused outrage when he embezzled money from his school and kept it for himself
Tried and Tested
Cinema
Streaming next week, Star Wars stalwart Rian Johnson gives the murder mystery genre a fresh spin with an all-star cast: Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Chris Evans
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Cinema
Armando Iannucci (The Death of Stalin) enlists an all-star cast to bring to life a fresh retelling of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
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Cinema
In his follow up to Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi brings his trademark wit to Nazi Germany: playing a little boy's imaginary friend – Adolf Hitler
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Netflix
Martin Scorsese is back with a new title, and a whole host of stars. The Irishman gives Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino the roles of a lifetime
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Cinema
In this new biopic of American actor Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), director Benedict Andrews examines her tumultuous involvement with an invasive FBI operation
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Cinema
The lineup for this year's London Film Festival is finally here: Scorsese, Chalamet, Cannes gems and Sundance surprises are all coming to the big smoke soon
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Cinema
Natalie Portman dazzles as an abrasive chameleonic popstar in Vox Lux, Brady Corbet's film of stardom and sorrow
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Cinema
Joaquin Phoenix, John C Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Riz Ahmed star in The Sisters Brothers, the new Western from French director Jacques Audiard
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Cinema
Photographer Richard Billingham revisits his childhood with a powerful stillness and love laced with dysfunction in his debut feature film Ray & Liz
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Cinema
In Colette, Keira Knightley goes against the norms of 19th century society – sleeping with men, women, and writing the most popular French novels of the time
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Cinema
The stars of Stan & Ollie, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, are absorbing in the new Laurel and Hardy biopic following the comedy duo's 1953 tour