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Departure

By Mathilde Dumazet

Young male love comes to the fore in this moving coming-of-ager from first-time director Andrew Steggall.

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Heart of a Dog

By Glenn Heath Jr

It’s impossible not to be charmed by Laurie Anderson’s reflective canine essay film.

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Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

By David Jenkins

The startling, bleakly poetic debut feature from one of the movie pantheon greats, Andrei Tarkovsky.

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

By Anton Bitel

There’s charm, humour and no shortage of strangeness in this radical rewriting of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale.

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Mustang

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

An extraordinary modern fairy tale about femininity and sisterhood from Turkey’s Deniz Gamze Ergüven.

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Evolution

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

This opaque, gorgeous mystery movie is Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s follow-up to 2004’s Innocence.

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Bad Neighbours 2

By Elena Lazic

A surprising entrant to that very exclusive club of movie sequels that are better than the original.

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The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the two Eyes are Not Brothers

By David Jenkins

Ben Rivers returns with a blackly comic take on the ethics of filmmaking in another country.

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Knight of Cups

By David Jenkins

Terrence Malick continues to inspire awe with this transcendent tale of a man looking back to past loves.

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Heaven Knows What

By David Jenkins

Arielle Holmes’ miraculous lead performance in this grubby addiction drama needs to be seen to be believed.

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Arabian Nights

By David Jenkins

Drone strikes, exploding whales and a Portugal on the brink of collapse... Miguel Gomes’ astonishing latest is a new breed of movie epic.

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Robert Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

By David Jenkins

A stirring, detailed and objective take on the licentious life and times of this celebrated photographer.

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Louder Than Bombs

By David Jenkins

Jesse Eisenberg and Isabelle Huppert lead an impressive cast in Joachim Trier’s English-language debut.

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Our Little Sister

By David Jenkins

Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda returns with a sensitive and quietly sublime sibling drama.

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The Jungle Book

By Adam Woodward

Jon Favreau brings Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale crashing into the 21st century. The result is astonishing.

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I Am Belfast

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

A lyrical ode to the Northern Irish capital from writer/director Mark Cousins.

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Midnight Special

By Adam Woodward

Writer/director Jeff Nichols reaches for the stars with this simply awesome sci-fi parable.

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Nasty Baby

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sebastián Silva directs and stars in this astonishing queer drama about adult infertility.

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