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Wonka - A decent prequel to Roald Dahl's Chocolate Factory classic, with some lively new times - I especially liked the cleverly-choreographed Scrub Scrub -...

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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget - The new Chicken Run is a seasonal treat, full of Aardman action and laugh-out-loud one-liners. And it has one of the most star-studded voice casts on record. ...

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There's Something in the Barn - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation meets Scandi comedy-fantasy-horror, and it's fun for a good while. An American family inherits a house in Norway and Dad...

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Eternal Daughter, The - Dimly lit and agonisingly slow, with mournful background music, this would-be chiller, on the shelf for the past two years, has BFI and BBC Films written all over it: a...

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Saltburn - Fennell won an Oscar for the screenplay of her first film, but she comes more than a little unstuck with this wildly ambitious and almost surreal sophomore project. ...

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May December - Haynes is one of my favourite directors, but he's on uncertain ground here. Pounding piano music, based largely on Michael Legrand's score for The Go-Between,...

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Marvels, The - This Marvel movie is all about girl-power, but it's not nearly as much fun as you might think. The heroes and the bad guys are all women, although they aren't able to...

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Dream Scenario - Bewilderingly lauded by most American critics, this is a badly handled attempt at a dark fantasy-comedy, although there's little to laugh at here. And, adopting an...

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