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A Nightmare Wakes

Disastrously dull and misguided attempt to fictionalise the creation of Frankenstein

Searchers

Sensitive look at the search for love online

Marvellous and the Black Hole

Charming indie flick about growing up and getting over loss

Night of the Kings

Ivorian ode to the power of storytelling

Violation

Twisted revenge thriller is graphic but not gratuitous

Superior

Natty twin flick nails comedy but bungles finale

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

Subversive study of lonely soul seeking comfort in darker corners of the internet

The Blazing World

Nightmarish vision of what overcoming personal grief looks like

Mayday

Imaginative but unsatisfying parable about recovering from trauma

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet

Softly-spoken parable about the virtues of rolling with the punches

Coming Home in the Dark

Sparse, violent and nihilistic thriller is a perfect midnight movie

Cate Quinn
Black Widows

Gripping modern thriller exposes life in a polygamous marriage

Passing

Luscious period racial drama with the seductive sense of a fable

El Planeta

Quirky black comedy carries barbed undercurrent of social commentary

A Glitch in the Matrix

Philosphical documentary posits interesting ideas about the nature of reality

R#J

Screenlife adaptation supplements Shakespeare with txt spk

Prime Time

Hyperintense thriller from Poland gets blood pumping

Sabaya

Harrowing documentary exposes plight of Kurdish Yazidi women

Knocking

Blistering central performance drives mental health thriller

Mass

Punishing drama sees two couples attempt to discuss the unspeakable