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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - I'm still not completely convinced that we need any more chapters in the 'Apes' franchise, but this one is pretty good for most of its (slightly overlong) runtime....

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Fall Guy, The - Following on from his success in Barbie, Gosling is cast here as the character created by Lee Majors in the hit TV series of the same name in the 1980s. ...

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That They May Face the Rising Sun - After an opening credits crawl of three and a half minutes (some crawl), tinkling piano music sets the tone for this Irish mood piece, set in the 1980s and filled with...

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Jericho Ridge - A British film shot in Kosovo and set in America with a multi-national cast doesn't sound too promising, but this is one dynamite action film and you'd better believe...

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Civil War - This is a very expensive-looking, but pretty darn good action film. Full of grisly violence and disturbing images, it's set in a dystopian future and posits the idea...

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Mothers' Instinct - A slow, sombre story of grief and discomfort which, based on a 2018 film from France, goes full-blown psycho melodrama on us towards the end. In this version, it's...

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Sweet East, The - A festival favourite from the back end of last year, cinematographer-turned-filmmaker Williams' bottom-budget indie has caused critics to write thousand-word essays on...

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Ghost Busters: Frozen Empire - Perhaps the last gasp of the famous old franchise, this unevenly-paced action comedy opens in 1904, where, at the firehouse building now occupied by the new Ghost...

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