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TV review: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams offers more optimism than Black Mirror
The sci-fi anthology series – featuring Steve Buscemi, Anna Paquin and Terrence Howard – dares to care about its characters more
Ramen Heads is a perfectly slurpable film
You'll want to sample Japan's favourite comfort dish after watching this drool-worthy doc more
TV review: Black Mirror: Season 4 delivers thrills, chills and laughs
Netflix's anthology series makes perfect binge-watching this holiday season more
I, Tonya biopic of skater Tonya Harding is hilarious and hard-hitting
Ingenious and very funny script, bolstered by great performances, comments on everything from the skating establishment to violence against women more
Jules Heath
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the first film in the franchise made by an artist, not a craftsman
Rian Johnson’s entry in the space opera takes the familiar characters (and a few new ones) into strange, unexpected territory more
The Other Side Of Hope will make you think about the current refugee situation in Europe and North America
The Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki’s latest imagines a society in which more people care about others than don’t more
Dim The Fluorescents is a high-wattage feature debut
Indie Canadian film starring local actors Claire Armstrong and Naomi Skwarna as corporate-training seminartists is a singular, cockeyed delight more
Dyke singer takes Mexico by storm in Chavela
Superb doc sheds light on the beloved and unique performer more
Suck It Up deals with pain and death but is weirdly charming
Suck It Up deals with pain and death but is weirdly charming Jordan Canning’s sophomore feature is modest, beautifully acted and full of surprising laughs more
Grady Mitchell
Sweet Virginia is a rock-solid crime noir film
Jamie M. Dagg lets this feature take its sweet time... until all hell breaks loose more
The Disaster Artist, about the making of The Room, feels like a party
James Franco’s movie about Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic is a smart, entertaining and clear-eyed look at what goes into even a terrible film more
The Breadwinner is breathtaking
Animated film about women dealing with violence and abuse under the Taliban has substance, humour and emotional power more
TV review: Godless is the first frontier series to rival Deadwood
Ambitious and sprawling western is one helluva drama more
Coco is a carnival of wonders
Once the new Pixar film reaches the land of the dead, it comes fully to life more
Blade Of The Immortal is bloody great fun
Takashi Miike’s samurai actioner splatters itself across the screen more
Jim & Andy is a fascinating behind the scenes look at Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman
It remains to be seen whether you’re watching an obnoxious actor indulging in selfish instincts or an acting genius talk about his greatest performance more
My Friend Dahmer suggests the horrors in the hallway
Adaptation of the autobiographical graphic novel about the early years of the notorious serial killer is disturbing and never exploitative more
Lady Bird flies high
Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut is lively, thoughtful and full of emotional clarity more
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TV review: Lady Dynamite's second season is even more meta and clever than the first
Maria Bamford's Netflix series finds its hilarious groove more
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is a gripping, unsettling tragedy
Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman head a superb cast in Yorgos Lanthimos's terrific attack on the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie more