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As The Mummy – starring Tom Cruise and Sophia Boutella – hits cinemas this Friday, we think about the franchise's enduring appeal
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Cinema
Berlin Syndrome showcases director Cate Shortland's knack for detail, but it's not a patch on her previous film
Must See
The best films out in June include everything from the new Edgar Wright film to a new Holocaust documentary
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Cinema
With Based on a True Story, Roman Polanski covers familiar ground with uninspired results
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Cinema
Good Time guarantees exactly that, as Robert Pattinson sheds the last of his heart-throb status
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Cinema
Things go from small to scary in this ingenious single-space drama from Mohamed Diab, set amid unrest in Egypt in 2013
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Sex, hammers, and octopi – the most exciting films by the best Korean directors
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Cinema
Riz Ahmed is a tough cookie and Billie Piper is barely present in City of Tiny Lights, a faded photocopy of a thriller
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Cinema
Kim Jee-woon adds to the long list of great South Korean films with an espionage drama set in the 1920s
Features
We ask some spoiler-free questions about the new Isabelle Huppert movie Elle
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Cinema
In the playful and shocking new film by Paul Verhoeven, Elle, Isabelle Huppert plays the titular heroine with disconcerting self-possession
Features
Ahead of the Razzie Awards, here are the worst films of the last 12 months. Enjoy!
Preview
Cinema
Spend a sublime couple of hours with Robert De Niro and the rest of the Goodfellas cast by watching Scorsese's gangster masterpiece
Features
From Felicity Jones and Mads Mikkelsen to the Death Star and Darth Vader – Rogue One, and what you need to know about the big Christmas film
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Cinema
The Ardennes is a taught, understated thriller with a satisfyingly climatic pay-off
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Cinema
The I Am Not a Serial Killer book adaptation is a grisly, sympathetic indie-horror
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Cinema
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in Allied, 2016's campiest delight. Robert Zemeckis' new film is a delicious confection that's both sublimely silly and genuinely thrilling
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Cinema
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals movie was the Venice Film Festival 2016 lineup's most dazzling entry
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Cinema
The Girl on the Train movie does its best Gone Girl impression, and while Emily Blunt commands the screen as well as Rosamund Pike, nothing around her survives comparison
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Cinema
John Malkovich and Mark Wahlberg star in the Deepwater Horizon film, a Titanic for the 2010s
Features
Natalie Portman, Daniel Radcliffe, Matthew Mcconaughey, Bryan Cranston... When it comes to 'true story' films, 2016 has attracted plenty of talent. But has it been put to good use?
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Cinema
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? How about Harry Potter and the White Supremacists? Daniel Radcliffe's new movie is a real blast
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Cinema
In The Clan, director Pablo Trapero tells a terrifying true story with mixed results
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Cinema
Walter White is pretty much back in this Pablo Escobar movie starring Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
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
Interview
We talk to Orange Is the New Black cast member Alysia Reiner about feminism, James Bond, and luxury stationary
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Cinema
Although it's unlikely to enter the canon of great war films, 2016's Anthropoid - starring Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy - ends on a high note
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Cinema
If you like shark movies and Blake Lively movies...
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Cinema
A Norwegian film starring a geologist doesn't sound very thrilling... but just you wait
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Cinema
With the semi-clever Traders, movie violence edges toward the acceptably satirical
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These punchy shooty Matt Damon movies all have several things in common...