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‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ review: Change comes to the Abbey in nostalgic final hurrah
Director Simon Curtis and writer Julian Fellowes serve up a familiar formula of scandal and sentimentality
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‘Normal’ review: Bob Odenkirk’s small town sheriff heads Ben Wheatley’s uninspired shoot-’em-up
Odenkirk reunites with Nobody franchise creator and screenwriter Derek Kolstad
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‘The Captive’ review: Alejandro Amenabar tackles formative years of Spanish author Cervantes
Newcomer Julio Pena Fernandez plays the Spanish writer in packed historical epic
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‘Blue Heron’ review: Contemplative Canadian debut sees a filmmaker confront her difficult past
Sophy Romvari’s accomplished first feature dramatises her own childhood experiences
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‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ review: Mockumentary sequel proves gentle swansong for fictional rockers
Director Rob Reiner reunites with stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer for follow-up to 1984 classic
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‘Steal Away’ review: Clement Virgo’s ambitious afrofuturist thriller explores sexual awakening
The Canadian director’s genre-bending drama stars Angourie Rice and Mallori Johnson
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‘& Sons’ review: Bill Nighy’s disheveled alcoholic author heads intriguing family drama
Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn and George MacKay also star in Pablo Trapero’s English-language feature debut
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‘The Long Walk’ review: Powerful Stephen King adaptation journeys through bleak dystopian America
Francis Lawrence directs uncompromising survival horror starring David Jonsson, Cooper Hoffman and Charlie Plummer
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‘Glenrothan’ review: Actor Brian Cox’s directorial debut is overworked Scottish family drama
Cox also stars opposite Alan Cumming in cliched tale of two estranged brothers reuniting
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‘On The Road’ review: Venice Horizons winner is taut, tender tale of gay Mexican drifter
Writer/director David Pablos sets his story in the ultra-masculine environment of Mexico’s trucking community
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‘Nuremberg’ review: Russell Crowe is Nazi officer Hermann Goring in earnest courtroom drama
James Vanderbilt’s second feature dramatises Goring’s 1940s trial and also stars Rami Malek and Michael Shannon
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‘Hamnet’ review: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal power Chloe Zhao’s potent Shakespeare drama
‘The Rider’ and ‘Nomadland’ director confidently adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the genesis of ‘Hamlet’
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‘Ballad Of A Small Player’ review: Colin Farrell is on a losing streak in Edward Berger’s gambling drama
Tilda Swinton also stars in the director’s Macao-set follow up to ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ and ‘Conclave’
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‘Couture’ review: Angelina Jolie is a tour de force in Alice Winocour’s Paris fashion drama
Jolie stars as a Paris Fashion Week filmmaker battling cancer in intricate Toronto premiere
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‘The Christophers’ review: Steven Soderbergh’s witty chamber piece stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel
The director’s chatty, catty two-hander premieres in Toronto
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‘Eternity’ review: Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner head thin afterlife romcom
Director David Freyne’s soulless Toronto title is lifted by sparky supporting performances from Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early
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‘Winter Of The Crow’ review: Lesley Manville propels gripping Polish Cold War thriller
The British star captivates as a professor on a deadly trip to 1980s Warsaw in Kasia Adamik’s gritty drama
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‘I Swear’ review: Robert Aramayo is exceptional as real-life Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson
Kirk Jones directs this stirring biopic of Davidson, previously the subject of documentaries including ‘John’s Not Mad’
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‘Roofman’ review: Channing Tatum charms in real-life crime caper from Derek Cianfrance
Kirsten Dunst also stars in ’Blue Valentine’ director’s conventional spin on quirky tale
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‘Sacrifice’ review: Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy head muddled Romain Gavras eco thriller
Vincent Cassel and Salma Hayek Pinault join the starry cast of Gavras’s ‘Athena’ follow-up