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This delectable tale of a stop-motion sheep in the city reminds us why Aardman Animation are a national treasure.

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Selma

By David Jenkins

“Selma Now!” Ava DuVernay’s vital civil rights drama is the film Martin Luther King deserved.

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Inherent Vice

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Paul Thomas Anderson charts the end of the hippy dream in this blissful gumshoe chimera.

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Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

By Wally Hammond

Louis Malle’s unsentimental depiction of his own boyhood during the Nazi occupation of France stands the test of time.

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Whiplash

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Shake, rattle and brawl. A student drummer faces off with his psycho teacher in Damien Chazelle’s pulsating drama.

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National Gallery

By Mark Asch

One of cinema’s Old Masters returns with this poetic and profound dissection of art and storytelling.

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The Last of the Unjust

By Jordan Cronk

Claude Lanzmann’s devastating appendix to his epochal Holocaust documentary, Shoah, is a vital piece of cinema.

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Birdman

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Michael Keaton soars in director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s triumphant return to form.

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Manakamana

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One of 2014’s best films comprises of 11 long takes from inside a Nepalese cable car.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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Is Stanley Kubrick’s seminal 1968 sci-fi really the space opera to end all space operas?

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Concerning Violence

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

A timely and powerful exploration into the history of uprising in Africa as seen through the eyes of white liberals.

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Paddington

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This one-for-the-ages family movie based on the books by Michael Bond is a full-blown Christmas triumph.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Could this satire on the power of propaganda be the greatest third part to a film franchise ever?

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The Possibilities Are Endless

By David Jenkins

Edwyn Collins is the subject of this superb, affirmative documentary about regaining your musical marbles following a major health scare.

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Interstellar

By David Ehrlich

Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic is his most ambitious film yet, if not necessarily his best.

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Mr Turner

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Timothy Spall grunts his way to glory in Mike Leigh’s elegantly composed portrait of JMW Turner.

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CITIZENFOUR

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Laura Poitras’ real-life spy thriller shows how and why Edward Snowden stepped up to blow the whistle on government spying.

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Horns

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Daniel Radcliffe summons his dark side in this darkly comic fantasy horror.

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