Elle Fanning and Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown.

Timothee Chalamet ditches the cuteness and produces an electric Bob Dylan

A Complete Unknown is the actor’s most impressive performance to date:not merely an imitation of the young Dylan,but an interpretation of his body of work.

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Julia Garner,Christopher Abbott and Matilda Firth in Wolf Man.

Leigh Whannell’s new horror update Wolf Man is ruthlessly effective

Like his 2020 reboot of The Invisible Man,the Melbourne-born director’s new film pares a classic story back to its stark essentials.

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Colman Domingo,left,and Clarence Maclin in a scene from Sing Sing.

You’ll be moved by this prison drama about a drama staged in a prison

The supporting cast of Sing Sing includes many former inmates from the notorious jail.

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Mason Thames,Noah Cottrell,Julian Lerner and Abby James Witherspoon in Monster Summer.

Spielberg meets Stranger Things in this paranoid teen-horror fantasy

Monster Summer,which stars Mel Gibson,is reminiscent of Jaws,but with a more nebulous enemy.

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Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in the film Conclave.

Heaven help us! Conclave’s divine drama at times defies belief

This adaptation of Robert Harris’ thriller has all the hallmarks of a classic palace intrigue but stretches credibility to breaking point.

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Summer holidays movie special:Our critics’ picks of the flicks

Already seen Wicked? Want a film that will please the family? Our reviewers have you covered from Boxing Day and beyond.

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Celeste Dalla Porta.

This is a film you can drift through,enchanted and sceptical at once

Starring Celeste Dalla Porta and Gary Oldman,Parthenope takes place in the kind of that world high-end advertising conjures up.

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Jim Carrey as Ivo Robotnik and Gerald Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Jim Carrey’s showboating double-act can’t save Sonic the Hedgehog 3

The comedian takes on a second role as Dr Robotnik’s lookalike grandpa,which doubles the number of movie characters he’s played this decade.

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Kieran Culkin (left) and Jesse Eisenberg play cousins honouring their grandmother in A Real Pain.

Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg collide in this entertaining double act

A Real Pain follows two bickering cousins as they travel to Poland to honour their grandmother.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Russell Crowe play father and son in Kraven the Hunter.

Russell Crowe stuck between credibility and camp in blockbuster shocker

Crowe plays a Russian gangster in Kraven the Hunter,which alternates between entertainingly awful and just terrible.

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