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With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs

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

Writer-director James Gunn stays true to himself while delivering a quirky, action-packed, and shockingly emotional sign-off

Tarik Saleh's old-school paranoid thriller is a knotty, fearsome affair, elevated by its unique setting within an influential university

From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital

Thirty years on, the renowned Polish filmmaker's tragic trilogy-opener proves every bit as masterful as its brand new 4K re-release

Though its dramatic reenactment scenes weaken it, this doc about the post-war American psyche is a genuinely novel slice of history

Though there are a few nice ideas, this follow-up to the surprisingly good 2019 original is bogged down by the genre's worst instincts

Haley Bennett, Sam Riley and Marisa Abela star in an improvised three-hander that can't sustain our curiosity over its short runtime

Interested in who voted for what? You'll find the full list of individual ballots for this year's best of 2022 list right here

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