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The masterstroke that transformed Roger Moore from the worst Bond into an unforgettable 007
Based on unseen home videos, a new film suggests the actor remade the suave spy in his own image
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Mary: Netflix’s biblical biopic is the worst film of the year
This bafflingly awful film about the Virgin Mary, starring Anthony Hopkins as Herod, is one bad choice built from thousands of smaller ones
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Nosferatu: An extravagantly sexual, gory spin on a vampire classic
While Bill Skarsgård only fitfully impresses as Count Orlok in Robert Eggers’s chilling remake, Lily-Rose Depp proves she’s one to watch
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Conclave: Ralph Fiennes lends cardinal virtues to a brisk papal thriller
In this drama about the election of a new pope, Fiennes stars as a cardinal who is Rome’s present-day answer to Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall
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Bird: It’s hard to know what to make of Andrea Arnold’s bizarre Barry Keoghan drama
The English filmmaker’s latest about a girl whose imagination flies above her grotty home life makes an odd foray into magical realism
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The Piano Lesson: Samuel L Jackson is quietly magnificent in this fitful August Wilson drama
This film can’t quite pay off as horror, but it borrows the trappings of an exorcism flick to force a family crisis to a head
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Paddington in Peru, review: a jolly fun adventure that doesn’t hit the heights of its predecessors
Seven years after the fantastic Paddington 2, Britain’s beloved bear is back and he has a missing Aunt Lucy to find
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A match for the movie? This joyful musical is far better
Relocated to Cornwall, this lyrical adaptation of F Scott Fitgerald’s novella unlocks far greater meanings than David Fincher’s film managed
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The big-budget sick joke that killed Dan Aykroyd’s career
The horror romp Nothing But Trouble had comedy stars, Demi Moore and mutant babies. Yet it remains one of the most shameful flops ever made
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Heretic: Hugh Grant goes full macabre villain – and is a wicked delight
Grant has a whale of a time as a man who traps two missionaries in his house, but this religious horror turns into Saw without the gore
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Juror #2, review: Clint Eastwood’s legal thriller is a comforting but riveting throwback to the 90s
Starring an excellent Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette, the 94-year-old director’s latest is like 12 Angry Men with a knife-twist
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, review: A devastating emotional rollercoaster
The Man of Steel’s life-changing accident – and the relationships that saved him – are the focus of this gut-punch of a documentary
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Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy mesmerises in his first post-Oppenheimer role
The Oscar winner brings a moving vulnerability and hypnotic grace to this adaptation of Claire Keegan’s short story
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Peter Sellers, Stanley Kubrick and the battle to stop Dr Strangelove from bombing
How a control-freak director and his maniacal star defied terrified studio executives and onset injuries to make comedy gold from Armageddon
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Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, review: The duo’s comeback hits all the franchise’s gleeful highs
The pair’s first full-length adventure since 2005’s Curse of the Were-Rabbit sees Nick Park and Aardman Animation on irresistible form
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The 75 best films of 2024 – so far
From Oscar-winning dramas to purely pleasurable blockbusters, here are our critics’ picks of 2024 so far
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