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Muppet Christmas Carol, The (30th anniversary reissue) - If you can imagine that Charles Dickens was ever blue and furry and hung around with a rat, you are half-way to enjoying this irreverent Muppet version of the author's...

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Casablanca (70th anniversary reissue) - Morocco, 1942, at the height of World War Two. In the middle of quasi-neutral Casablanca sits Rick's Cafe Americain, a swish nightclub run by a US ex-patriate (Bogart),...

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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical - More of a pantomime Christmas show than a proper film, this adaptation of the stage success lacks pace and flow in the first half, but improves quite a bit in the...

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Bones and All - Decades ago, there was a film called All the Fine Young Cannibals. That would have fitted this ugly fantasy to a T, although Bones and All isn't half...

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Black Panther Wakanda Forever (IMAX and/or 3D at some cinemas) - Well, was it worth the wait? And are we referring to the emergence of a sequel to the iconic, Oscar-nominated Black Panther or the length of the sequel...

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Call Jane - With current abortion controversies rampant in the United States, this drama couldn't be more timely. It's a bit lacking in urgency and bite, but the director has a...

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Living - A virtuoso performance by Nighy is the beating heart of this belated UK remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 masterpiece Ikiru. The film starts quite poorly, but...

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Triangle of Sadness - Bizarrely, this empty and sometimes repellent fantasy-comedy-drama was awarded the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Juries on these occasions have been...

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