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Bloodlands dredges up Northern Ireland’s troubled past
Writer Chris Brandon’s four-part crime series provides impressively detailed historical-political context – but subsequently undermines it.
By Trevor Johnston
How the movies woke up to jazz
By Tom Milne
The Drifters is a stylish road movie cramped by little England
By Trevor Johnston
The Night fills a haunted hotel with manifestations of migrant paranoia
By Kim Newman
ZeroZeroZero is a globetrotting narcotics thriller where power is the real drug
By Nikki Baughan
Godzilla vs. Kong is a giant alpha-male roughhouse
By Kim Newman
Undine is a modern-day fairytale romance, between diver and water nymph
By Jonathan Romney
Framing Britney Spears joins the shame game
By Hannah McGill
Minari puts faith in the verdant fields of a Korean family’s Arkansas farm
By Philip Kemp
Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché remembers the fizz and the fallout
By Frances Morgan
Moxie rekindles the riot grrrl spirit – original blinkers and all
By Nadine Deller
Can’t Get You out of My Head gets lost in its own thoughts
By Hannah McGill
Your Honor knots together the high and low of a morally murky New Orleans
By Pamela Hutchinson
The Mauritanian is a frighteningly convincing tale of Guantánamo internment
By Philip Kemp
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier keeps Captain America’s special friends in harness
By Kim Newman
Ammonite discovers romance beneath the Victorian palaeontologist’s hard exterior
By Sophie Brown
Stray takes a dog’s eye view of the streets of Istanbul
By Robert Hanks
Malmkrog is theological philosophy made challenging but beautiful cinema
By Adrian Martin
The United States vs. Billie Holiday reprises the same old blues
By Naomi Obeng
Zack Snyder’s Justice League reloads for the streaming wars
By Tim Hayes
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is a brainteasingly ambiguous surgeon-stalker chiller
By Michael Brooke
My Father and Me is a tender snapshot of a working-class photographer’s life
By Philip Kemp
Ethos offers up Turkish coffee and cultural contradictions
By Nikki Baughan
Brother’s Keeper suggests Kurdish oppression begins in school
By Caitlin Quinlan
Ted K visits the Unabomber’s neck of the woods
By John Bleasdale
French Exit sends Michelle Pfeiffer into the Parisian night
By Graham Fuller
A Sun follows a Taipei family through thunder and loss
By Tony Rayns
Fabian or Going to the Dogs dives headlong with Weimar Germany’s lost generation
By Jordan Cronk