Brandon Sklenar and Meghann Fahy in Drop.

Drop:As suspenseful as anything I’ve experienced in a cinema for ages

Meghann Fahy plays a woman having the worst night of her life as a series of mysterious threatening phone messages wrecks a first date.

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Kit Connor in Warfare.

Iraq war film feels like the real thing … until it doesn’t

Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza base Warfare on an incident that involved a Navy SEAL platoon in 2006.

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Callina Liang in Bad Genius.

Bad Genius is smart but fails to fulfil its early promise

This Hollywood remake of a 2017 Thai hit tracks a brainy high-schooler who has to break the rules to achieve her dreams.

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Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega in a scene from Death of a Unicorn

Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star in this film that isn’t for viewers with weak stomachs

Death of a Unicorn is the good-taste version of an innately bad-taste idea – and should satisfy fans of both arthouse and horror.

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Pierre Niney as The Count of Monte Cristo.

A rich man out for revenge:The Count of Monte Cristo still rings true

A new version of the classic French tale reminds us of the power of forgiveness.

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Jason Momoa in a scene from “A Minecraft Movie.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

The building blocks are there,but this movie cash-in is chaotic and uneven

A Minecraft Movie,a live-action adaptation of the biggest video game ever,grafts a stock fantasy quest onto a landscape where plot was never the point.

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Gimmicks aplenty and a very odd ending in this coming-of-age tale

In Head South,Ed Ozenbould stars as an awkward teenager who finally finds his tribe through punk rock.

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Jason Statham just wants to leave his past behind in A Working Man - sadly it catches up with him.

Jason Statham past his peak slaughtering unimpressive foes in ultraviolent action film

Co-written by Sylvester Stallone,A Working Man follows a familiar pattern reaching back to Stallone’s 1980s action hero heyday.

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The Cats of Gokogu Shrine film review.

If this film is too successful,it could destroy the very thing it’s documenting

Gentle documentary,The Cats of Gokogu Shrine,invites us into a quiet world populated by stray cats.

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Bonitzer’s new film The Stolen Painting follows the true saga of Austrian artist Egon Schiele’s Wilted Sunflowers.

He’s had a hand in over 40 features. But this critic-turned-filmmaker remains a mystery

Since the ’70s,Pascal Bonitzer has worked with icons such as Jacques Rivette,Chantal Akerman and Paul Verhoeven.

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