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Shelby Oaks

Too few characters, no subplots and an awful lot of walking around with a torch

New Releases

Edinburgh Filmhouse

Sirāt

Shocking and confrontational road movie is one to experience on the big screen

Edinburgh Filmhouse

Moi qui t’aimais

Biopic intending to present the enduring love of a celebrated couple flounders in dispiriting cycles of toxicity

GAME

John Minton’s one-location, self-funded thriller is ambitious, but tedious

Edinburgh Filmhouse

Colours of Time

Clumsy approach to dual timeline undercuts light, undemanding drama about love and art across 130 years

Edinburgh Filmhouse

The Musicians

Pleasantly diverting comedy-drama with a musical soul that achieves moments of transcendence

Edinburgh Filmhouse

Nouvelle Vague

Linklater’s homage to the French New Wave is a joyous affair, even though it surrenders to the myth of its subject

Adulthood

Alex Winter’s goofball crime comedy is more of a tedious trek than an excellent adventure.

Die My Love

Jennifer Lawrence shines in a visceral and stylistically bold look at postpartum depression

DVDs

Edinburgh Filmhouse

Out of Love

A quiet gem of rare tenderness and remarkably sensitivity

Edinburgh Filmhouse

Arco

A colourful future with fragile hearts

Cameo

Islands

Enigmatic heatstricken drama takes its time but ultimately proves a winner

Imaginary

Another uninspired Blumhouse horror mines childhood trauma to no great effect

Eureka

A film that plays so apathetically with the concept of abstract art even Kandinsky would be left begging for cogency