Every Little Thing captures the paradoxical lives of hummingbirds.

Gangs,brawls and defying gravity:Inside the secret lives of hummingbirds

No heavier than a marshmallow and no longer than an adult’s little finger,the colourful birds can also be ferocious.

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David Wenham stars in Spit

David Wenham and his mullet are back in this colourful caper

It’s obvious that Wenham is having enormous fun with the singular character of Spit,and it proves infectious.

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Soheila Golestani (left),Mahsa Rostami and Setareh Maleki as mother and daughters in The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

The film that was so controversial,its director had to flee the country

Set during the women’s uprising in Iran,The Seed of the Sacred Fig is courageous indictment of that country’s system.

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Fernanda Torres has won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for her performance as the indomitable Eunice.

This true story makes for an unlikely – and remarkable – feelgood film

There’s a lot of awards buzz around I’m Still Here,but for director Walter Salles telling this story was a highly personal undertaking.

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Pamela Anderson shines as a Las Vegas dancer in The Last Showgirl.

Pamela Anderson shines in showgirl tale that’s all dazzle,no razzle

The star brings an air of innocent gentility to her role as Las Vegas dancer facing the end of her career.

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Gonçalo Waddington plays a man running away from his fiancee in Grand Tour.

Acclaimed Grand Tour is weirdly compelling yet totally disorienting

Miguel Gomes won the Best Director Award at Cannes last year for this mash-up of Asian travelogue,colonial satire and an ill-begotten love story.

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Bridget Jones has moved onto a younger man. She’s not alone.

‘Romance addict’ Bridget Jones returns with new dilemma

She may be older,but the rom-com darling doesn’t seem to be wiser in this fourth outing of the beloved franchise.

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Chloe (Callina Liang) is still grieving over the unexplained death of best friend in Presence.

Steven Soderbergh injects new life into the haunted house mystery

In Presence,the director pairs the supernatural with the modern problem of social media driving young people to engage extreme in acts of humiliation and bullying.

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Daniel Craig,left,is cast as William Lee,a Burroughs alter ego and heroin addict.

Daniel Craig as a drunken letch couldn’t be less like James Bond in this steamy movie

The former 007 star plays against type in this adaptation of a William S. Burroughs novella.

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Angelina Jolie plays doomed opera singer Maria Callas in Maria.

Angelina Jolie is convincing but this Maria Callas biopic will leave you cold

You won’t find too many high notes in Pablo Larrain’s gloomy drama,which focuses on the last two weeks of the doomed opera singer’s life.

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