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3.5Score

Anthropoid ignores war movie expectations

Movie review: Anthropoid Sean Ellis's Second World War thriller about the real-life assassination attempt on Nazi henchman Reinhard Heydrich adopts a slightly random, and disarmingly intimate approach to both heroism and history
2.5/5Score

Star Trek Beyond falls Below the Bar

Movie review: Star Trek Beyond Justin Lin revs the Enterprise's perpetually over-heated engines but Star Trek Beyond orbits a familiar universe without reflection
3.5Score

Just the end of the world another soap on steroids

Movie review: Juste la fin du monde The latest effort from Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan plays to the auteur's favourite themes: moms, gay sons and simmering family dramas that will not be denied - or else!
1.5Score

A bad case of Storkholm Syndrome

Movie review: Storks Andy Samberg headlines an all-star cast but this cartoon outing from the man who wrote Zoolander 2 holds the viewer captive to a bird-brained premise
3Score

The Lovers & The Despot a bizarre thriller

Movie review: The Lovers & the Despot Documentary tells how a South Korean movie star and a director were kidnapped by North Korea's autocratic leader to help kick start his nation's film industry
3Score

Sully feels like a dead stick landing

Movie review: Sully Tom Hanks has enough emotional charisma to keep Clint Eastwood's hero conventions in the air, but this cinematic salute to Chesley Sullenberger's heroism loses thrust
2.5Score

The Heaviness Between Oceans

Movie review:  The Light Between Oceans Derek Cianfrance makes another stab at melancholy-laced romance with his adaptation of M.L. Stedman's period novel about a lighthouse keeper and his failure to navigate a moral hazard
3Score

Equity gropes at Wall Street’s double-breasted morality

Movie review: Equity Director Meera Menon's dramatic feature about female investment bankers offers a slightly different view of a male-dominated landscape, but Equity doesn't cash in      
3.5Score

Pete’s Dragon rekindles kid imagination

Movie review: Pete’s Dragon Pulling inspiration from childhood touchstones such as Puff the Magic Dragon, The Jungle Book and Lassie, David Lowery's remake of Pete's Dragon may play to a familiar formula, but it's still warm and fuzzy and fun to cuddle
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Indignation spurs little upset

Movie review: Indignation Veteran producer James Schamus makes his debut behind the camera directing Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon in a sincere but staid adaptation of Philip Roth's 2008 novel