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Tag follows a group of friends in a highly spirited game of tag that goes for years.
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Toby Woollaston looks at the latest installment of the Ocean's franchise, Ocean's 8.
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The Bookshop is certainly no page-turner, but is engaging enough, writes Toby Woollaston.
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After a successful festival run Swagger of Thieves is coming to a cinema near you
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Everyone's a suspect in this adaptation of Agatha Christie's sordid murder mystery
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Mr Stein Goes Online was not as good as expected, for Toby Woolaston.
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Steve Carrell, Laurence Fishburne and Bryan Cranston are war vets in this emotional film
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Sweet Country shows a side of Australia that is anything but...
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Walking out deftly balances pervasive tension with tender moments of father-son dynamic.
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Peter Rabbit's attempt to appeal to the widest possible audience falls flat.
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Mary Magdalene is a thought provoking movie that highlights the flaws of the church.
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Annihilation is a brooding, haunting, and at times quite scary sci-fi brain-burner.
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Kobi dreams of jewellry in this feature documentary about the local artisan
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Game Night is a cheerful black comedy with no subtext but lots of fun.
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Lady Bird is a small film with a big heart that focuses on mother / daughter relations.
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Phantom Thread shows Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't seem capable of putting a foot wrong.
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What if you could be shrunken to a miniature version of yourself?
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Does I, Tonya let truth get in the way of it's absorbing story?
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The body-swap gag has graced the silver screen many times over the years.
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With the A-list firepower of Streep, Hanks and Spielberg what could possibly go wrong?
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The Greatest Showman is full of catchy tunes and a feel-good vibe.
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Is the force strong with the only film brave enough to come out the same day as Star Wars?
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Seldom do sports dramas work but Borg vs McEnroe makes a solid effort.
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The Room is loved for being so bad, but is the film about making it any good?
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In Wonder, Stephen Chbosky has negotiated the foggy area between trite and truth.
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer will no doubt divide its audience.
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This train ride is worth jumping aboard.
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It's always a sobering experience when a film knowingly holds a mirror to modern society.
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An important historical document about New Zealand and one of its resilient treasures.
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Maudie is a gently observational piece that takes a slice of Canadian rural life
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Will this father-son survival tale have you Walking Out of the cinema?
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It can't be an easy task following up one of the most iconic films of all time.
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Is this historical sporting drama a hole in one?
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The bard's tale is reimagined as a dark psychological period cinema, but does it work?
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I Am Not Your Negro is an intoxicating and provocative doco.
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Women's stories look at issues of equality
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Could this icy murder-mystery be the next Silence of the Lambs?
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God's Own Country is an unsentimental and unflinching depiction of gay love.
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Logan Lucky has all the knee slappin' swagger of a West Virginian bar brawl.
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Is this Ireland's answer to the beloved Muriel's Wedding?
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Charlize Theron's new role may as well be a female Bond
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A five course meal or reheated drama? We review The Dinner.
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Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk remains a giant at the international box office
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Like all Edgar Wright movies, Baby Driver is a kinetically charged explosion of style.
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Essential viewing for Lynch fans, but also for those interested in an artist at work.
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Its many parts are curiously engaging despite the misleading marketing.
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Long Way North has finally made its long way south onto our screens.
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Chocolat isn't just about the whimsically joyful world of clowns from yesteryear.
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Its gentle and warm comedy will go some way to break down the cynics in the audience.
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Gentle comedy is a modern day fairytale.
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Buckle-up, as this looks like only the first of many more monstrous turds flung our way.
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Adult Life Skills is infused with as much playfulness as it is with existential insight.
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Better than most from DC's universe but Wonder Woman still fails to rise above its genre.