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In this new Channel 4 mystery drama, Dr Tom Kendrick (David Tennant) has his life turned upside down when tragedy strikes a small community in Scotland
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Netflix
With Criminal, Netflix travels across four countries to provide 12 stories of extraordinary crime: all set within the interrogation room. David Tennant stars
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Netflix
Thirty years on from the execution of Ted Bundy, Conversations with a Killer tells the chilling tale of America's most notorious serial killer
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Cinema
Innocence and experience jostle in Shoplifters, a beautiful, alchemical family drama from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda who snapped up the Palme d'Or at Cannes
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Cinema
From the director of The Mercy and the writer of Mindhunter, King of Thieves is a comedy heist movie without much comedy or heist
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Cinema
14 years after the original comes the sequel to the finest animation film from the Pixar studios: Incredibles 2 arrives with new villains and a fresh sense of relevance
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Cinema
The fourth film in the franchise, The First Purge takes a few cheap shots at satire, featuring a performance from Y'lan Noel (Insecure)
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Cinema
From the fun to the feelgood to the fast and furious, here are the best blockbusters of 2018 coming out this summer
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Cinema
Still stylish, with plenty of machismo from leads Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, Sicario 2: Soldado is a less brainy, more brawny but fitting follow-up to the 2015 original
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Cinema
Boasting a stellar performance from model-actress Diane Kruger, In the Fade tracks one woman's lonely fight for justice in a country not quite finished with its dark nationalist past
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Cinema
The Ciambra is an effective and affecting expose of life on the fringes of Italian society and an overdue update on one of the country’s defining cinematic ages
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Cinema
How far does gender affect opinion on the all-female Ocean's 8? A male and female critic go head to head
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Cinema
Here's what you'll be watching next: the buzziest and best films that screened at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
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Cinema
Featuring convincing performances from Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, Beast is a gripping crime thriller which follows a 27-year old unleashing her wild side after meeting a mysterious local
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Cinema
Shot using an iPhone and featuring an against-type Claire Foy, Unsane is an accomplished psychological thriller from the Ocean's Trilogy director that wobbles in its final act
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Cinema
Boasting a bumper cast including David Oyelowo and Charlize Theron, Gringo takes us through Mexico's drug underworld but there are too many twists and turns to keep the comedy up
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Cinema
Joaquin Phoenix is as exemplary as the direction is delectable in You Were Never Really Here — but something is missing
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Cinema
Featuring a never-better Margot Robbie and a Bafta award winning performance from Allison Janney, I, Tonya tells the real-life story of figure skater Tonya Harding and her rocky career
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Cinema
Here are our predictions for what will win big at the Academy Awards...and what deserves to
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Cinema
All the Money in the World struggles to gain momentum but is helped by a monumental performance from Christopher Plummer as 'the richest man in the world'
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Cinema
Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba come up trumps in Molly's Game – the true story of the so-called 'Poker Princess' told with wit and warmth by writer-director Aaron Sorkin
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Cinema
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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Cinema
Michael Fassbender heads a crack team of detectives in this nordic noir crime thriller film The Snowman (2017). Don't be fooled – it's a Christmas mood-killer
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Cinema
In new Orthodox film, David Leon tells the story of the identity struggles of a Jewish boxer. Read our Orthodox film review
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Visual Arts
Museum of London uncovers the sinister collection of the Metropolitan Police's Crime Museum in an unprecedented new exhibition