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Kelly Fremon Craig's take on the '70s coming-of-age classic strikes an unerring balance between laughs, giddiness, and poignancy

We've gathered up our most glowing reviews from this year's festival, from dynamic documentaries to dizzying debuts

An enticingly snowy and spooky premise is wasted on an overlong, unsatisfying, and poorly acted murder-mystery from Scott Cooper

The actor does fine work in this adaptation, bringing humanity and humour to the story of an obese man in the throes of grief

Writer-director Nana Mensah's low-budget debut marks her as a talent to watch, though her film is slightly marred by its third act

Fedor Tot reflects on this year's incarnation of the Italian festival dedicated to rediscovering and reframing the cinema of the past

This Robert Harris adaptation will be sure to please World War II buffs, though an excess of plot means it fails to consistently thrill

As another cinematic year draws to a close, our writers choose their favourite films, from miraculous musicals to subversive westerns

Yasmin Fedda's documentary exposes the horrors of Syria's disappeared, but finds warmth in the strength of the survivors

To coincide with the release of Paul Greengrass' News of the World, we look back at some of this unstoppable genre's recent greats

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