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Laal Singh Chaddha review: a Bollywood Forrest Gump
This remake of Robert Zemeckis’s iconic 1994 film is an Aamir Khan vehicle that adopts a mantle of popular musical entertainment to make some all-too-unpopular unpopular points about unity.
By Naman Ramachandran
Fortune Favours Lady Nikuko: a playful response to Studio Ghibli
By Andrew Osmond
Fairytale: deep-fake dictators in a nitrate nightmare
By John Bleasdale
Ariyippu: a plague on both your spouses
By John Bleasdale
Human Flowers of Flesh: a Mediterranean marvel
By James Lattimer
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash: as juicy as it sounds
By Tony Rayns
Bullet Train: mind the gap between its ears
By Rebecca Harrison
Fadia’s Tree: a study of displacement with airborne grace notes
By Leila Latif
Surface: a show as superficial as its title
By Rafa Sales Ross
Maisie: portrait of the artiste as an old man
By Ben Walters
Irma Vep: a cinephile fantasy made flesh
By Catherine Wheatley
Joyride: an Olivia Colman vehicle with a flat tyre
By Ruairí McCann
Under the Banner of Heaven: overblown Mormon mystery
By Philip Concannon
The Deer King: an adventure film in need of adventure
By Andrew Osmond
Death of a Ladies’ Man: new skin for old songs
By Josh Slater-Williams
Atlanta Season 3: a complex exploration of blackness and whiteness
By Tony Rayns
Unstuck in Time: devoted Vonnegut documentary
By Adam Nayman
Laurent Garnier: Off the Record – effective reminder of the power of dance music
By Patrick Gamble
The Railway Children Return: big-hearted yet sanitised nostalgia ride
By Rebecca Harrison
McEnroe: too much baseline, not enough drop shots
By David Parkinson
A Chiara review: an expressionistic coming-of-age drama
A Chiara review: an expressionistic coming-of-age dramaDonna: sensitive story of the third act in a trans life
By Ben Walters
Explorer: warm, wryly absurdist portrait of a very British throwback
By Nick Bradshaw
Black Bird: nerve-wracking prison thriller
By Trevor Johnston
Leave No Traces: impassioned, tragically pertinent political drama
By Michael Brooke