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English-language remake of the European film features four first-rate performances, while the shift in nationalities adds other interesting angles
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Sherlock Gnomes: Fun film, pity about Johnny Depp
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Dunkirk blows away the competition
My great uncle was the original Mr Darcy – and from Limerick
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Atomic Blonde: embarrassingly clunky 1980s period detail
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After 17 years the franchise seems tired, despite some star performances
Jackman on Wolverine: "I’m starting to get him now. Angry. No jazz hands"
It’s the seventh X-Men feature and the entire team are gonna get down like it’s 1973. But how does the relentlessly upbeat Hugh Jackman manage to bring all that gloomy menace to the party as Wolverine? "He’s like my older brother; my tougher, cooler older brother. And it does save me a fortune in therapy"
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The Stag: they’re going on a beer hunt
It’s being billed as Ireland’s answer to The Hangover and it gives Andrew Scott the chance to exercise his comic chops after his turn as everyone’s favourite baddie in BBC’s smash hit Sherlock
Imogen Poots -“You’re going to be judged whatever you do. So you might as well do things your way, right?”
Aged 24, Imogen Poots is already an industry veteran with credits alongside Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken, to name just a few. Yet she manages to keep it refreshingly real at the top of the acting pile
Philomena stars nominated for British Independent Film awards
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Trance
Danny Boyle’s follow-up to the Olympics ceremomy is lurid, crazy, twisty and hard to entirely resist
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While crafting his epic Olympic opening ceremony, director Danny Boyle also had a film on the boil. He might be the hardest working man in cinema, but he’s also the nicest
Canny Boy
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