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

Shô Miyake's film about the world's first hearing-impaired professional woman boxer brilliantly sidesteps the standard beats

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

Benjamin Millepied's debut film gets some heat out of Paul Mescal and Melissa Barrera but feels like an over-extended music video

Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson’s audacious follow-up redefines the genre, and the form, once again

Mia Hansen-Løve changes lanes for a deceptively light romance about a woman, played by Léa Seydoux, dealing with love and loss

Mickey Reece's misguided story of a singer-songwriter's liaison with country legend George Jones is a frankly baffling affair

Overrated hack or underrated auteur? Fedor Tot explores the twisty filmmaker's output to mark the release of Knock at the Cabin

Chinonye Chukwu's latest film is a precise, exacting study of America's all-too recent history, centred on an incredible lead turn

As another year draws to a close, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring debuts to boundary-breaking blockbusters

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