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• The Cats Of Gokogu Shrine (2024)

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  As ever, Soda’s style is patient, unintrusive, and warmly curious.

  Documentary about the cats that have set up home around the Shinto shrine in Ushimado.
• Catwoman (2004)

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  Catwoman is a hybrid of superhero/romance, with a feminist touch.

  A weak-willed designer is murdered and reborn as Catwoman.
• Cat Call (2023)

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  It’s a film full of small acts of kindness, a film in which it’s possible to make mistakes and keep on going, and in which the audience is therefore at liberty to be entertained by a series of scrapes which might otherwise be mortifying.

  An architect finds her search for love complicated by the fact that whenever she falls for someone she forsees their death.
• Cat Daddies (2022)

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  In a way the film is as intangible as cat dander but it’s nice to see that nice people still inhabit this crazy world of ours

  A portrait of men whose lives have been changed by the love of their cats.
• A Cat In Paris (2011)

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  Movement is everywhere, from the shadows playing on the characters' faces to the grace with which they move through the city of Paris.

  A cat with a double life becomes embroiled in a tale of animated adventure on the rooftops of Paris.
• Cat Person (2023)

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  The central portion of the film is delciously discomfiting.

  College student Margot meets 33-year-old Robert at the cinema where she works. After a casual flirtation at the concession stand, they carry on conversations through texts. As their perceptions of each other collide, events spiral out of control. Based on The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian.
• The Cat Rescuers (2017)

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  There's a lot of interesting psychology to explore here.

  Volunteer rescuers who help feral and abandoned cats in Brooklyn.
• Cat Sticks (2019)

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  For all its lowlife wallowing in metaphorical (and in the end literal) shit, Cat Sticks is beautiful.

  The stories of a group of addicts weave together on a rainy night in Kolcata.
• Caught In The Net (2020)

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  Horrifying and the pure stuff of nightmares for any parent.

  Joined on the soundstage by psychological and legal experts, the film crew unpacks the manipulative tactics that these child predators employ online, and illustrates how quickly such interactions often escalate to threats and blackmail.
• The Cave (2019)

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  Fayyad carefully balances sound so that audiences are not overwhelmed by the thunder of the shelling but still get enough of a sense of it to understand what it does to those on the ground.

  Documentary about an underground Syrian hospital and its staff
• Caveat (2020)

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  No matter how good everything else is, it’s impossible to make a good film from a weak script.

  An amnesiac drifter accepts a strange job from his old landlord: to look after his niece, a psychologically troubled woman living in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
• Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

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  If there is anybody who can provide insight into the lives of those long-vanished it must be Herzog.

  An exploration of the Chauvet caves in Southern France where the oldest known human paintings can be found.
• Cecile Is Dead (1944)

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  The comedy is quick, funny and often well observed. The actors are all quite capable of delivering it at pace.

  A woman keeps coming to Quai Des Orfevres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. Maigret is annoyed, until this woman is found dead and he realises she was on to something.
• Celebration (2018)

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  In many ways the film is stronger for being viewed at a distance from the events it depicts.

  Documentary about the two years leading to Yves Saint Laurent's final fashion collection.
• Celebrity (1998)

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  Branagh has none of Allen's flair for comedy.

  Woody Allen comedy that is more about sex than fame.
• Celebrity Crush (2019)

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  Brusque and energetic, this is a film no more interested in justifying its choices than its anti-heroine.

  An obsessive fan kidnaps a former child star.
• The Cellar (2022)

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  Familiar tropes create a certain level of comfort in a horror audience and Muldowney uses that to create a false sense of control.

  When her daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house, a woman uncovers dark secrets and a puzzle which keeps drawing her further in.
• Cellular (2004)

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  The central premise takes a little swallowing, but... Cellular is a lovely modern B-movie, with hi-tech gimmickry.

  Abducted teacher makes contact with outside world through radio waves.
• Cell 211 (2009)

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  This film doesn't just have one good idea, it has many, and it segues them together beautifully.

  When a prison guard is knocked unconscious at the start of a riot, he wakes to find he is trapped within the prison and must pretend to be a con to stay alive.
• Celtic Utopia (2025)

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  Doesn’t just reflect the reality of modern Ireland but actively embraces it when it makes its presence felt.

  Documentary considering Ireland's contemporary music scene, but also that of a postcolonial society wrestling with its heritage.
• The Cemetery Of Cinema (2023)

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  Eventually, Diallo will travel far beyond the villages, to another country, to continue his quest, going to lengths few documentarians would consider - but what he learns there will reveal that the real answer lies back home.

  Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea.
• Censor (2021)

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  Running a tight 84 minutes, the film still feels like an epic journey into both its seedy world and its heroine’s psyche.

  When film censor Enid discovers an eerie horror that speaks directly to her sister's mysterious disappearance, she resolves to unravel the puzzle behind the film and its enigmatic director – a quest blurring the lines between fiction and reality in terrifying ways.
• Cent'anni (2024)

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  The camera becomes a tool for interrogation, probing the intricacies of a couple at a crossroads.

  A filmmaker making a documentary about her partner’s cycling tour, following his battle with cancer, finds herself re-examining their relationship.
• Centigrade (2020)

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  Shot in sequential order with the actors encouraged to fast as much as possible during the shoot, Centigrade is all about realism.

  A married couple find themselves trapped in their frozen vehicle after a blizzard and struggle to survive amid plunging temperatures and unforeseen obstacles.
• Central Station (1997)

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  What improves the chemistry is Dora's reluctance to be involved in anything so unselfish as street boy charity.

  A schoolteacher helps a young boy hunt for his dad.
• Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

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  Thanks to Melville's spare approach, the film feels cool in both senses of the phrase and there's time to really focus on the look.

  After leaving prison, a thief crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot a heist.
• Cerebrum (2022)

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  Though it shifts its focus into something much darker towards the end, the meat of it is in the father-son relationship, in their interactions and the ways that they observe each other.

  After waking up from a year-long coma, an insecure young man must fight his controlling father in order to discover what really happened to his seemingly absent mother, as the true consequences of his past actions unravel before him.
• Certified Copy (2010)

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  It's a shame that this intriguing idea hasn't developed into the gem of a film it should have been.

  When an art historian persuades a writer to accompany her on a drive through rural Tuscany, a strange game develops.
• Certified Mail (2019)

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  Saqr establishes the characters with some skill, allowing his protagonist to remain 'difficult' rather than settling into a groove.

  A woman suffering depression has to cope with her baby alone after her husband is arrested.
• C'est La Vie! (2017)

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  So much is going on that Nakache and Toledano are able to slyly set-up jokes in such a way that we barely notice them, so that when they pay off their impact is greater.

  A night of surprises unfolds at a wedding party in a chateau.
• Chained For Life (2018)

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  Chained For Life finds a rich vein of comedy in the awfulness of many people's reactions to disability.

  A starlet finds herself in unfamiliar territory when she appears in a film about disfigurement that features real disabled people.
• Chainsaws Were Singing (2024)

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  Although most viewers will find themselves flagging before the end, there is a lot to enjoy here.

  Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.
• Challengers (2024)

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  The whole thing is ludicrously dragged out over 13 years, and sitting through it feels like longer.

  Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he'll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
• The Chambermaid (2018)

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  This is a quiet movie, which never loses its focus on its central character study, while allowing points about economic and social inequalities to sound out loud and clear.

  Character study of a maid in a Mexican hotel.
• Champagne (1928)

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  Neither funny nor particularly dramatic, with a paper thin plot

  The comedic adventures of a rich girl whose father decides to teachher a lesson.
• The Changed (2021)

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  Foley does the hard work of internalising a struggle too often treated as vast and external.

  A group of ordinary people band together in a suburban home to battle imposters who have replaced their families, friends, and neighbours.
• Changeling (2008)

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  Straczynski's script is a masterpiece of understatement and restraint, and Angelina Jolie is riveting in the central role.

  True crime story about a mother whose problems are compounded when she is reunited with a boy police claim is her missing 10-year-old son.
• The Change-Up (2011)

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  It's an unbridled pleasure to see Bateman off the leash for once.

  A harried husband and father finds himself in the body of his freewheeling, promiscuous best friend.
• Change In The Air (2018)

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  The film builds up a good amount of suspense at the beginning but does not keep the pace throughout.

  When a beguiling young woman moves in next door, a quiet neighbourhood is awakened, bringing people face to face with their secrets and, ultimately, themselves.
• Changing Lanes (2002)

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  Gliding smoothly under the surface of what appears to be a serious film about coincidence and morality is that old black magic called sentiment.

  An ambitious lawyer and a recovering alcoholic have a bad day in New York after a car crash.
• Changing The Game (2019)

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  Barnett excels at capturing nuances of expression and action.

  Transgender high school athletes from across the US compete at the top of their fields, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.
• The Changin' Times Of Ike White (2019)

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  Daniel Vernon’s film is one of those meandering documentaries that starts out trying to do one thing and ends up going in directions that nobody involved seems to have anticipated.

  A documentary about the man behind the first ever commercial album recorded inside an American prison by an inmate, charting his journey out from prison into industry adulation and life as a free man, eventually leading to his reinvention as a performer for hire.
• Chantal Akerman: Volume 1, 1967-1978 (2025)

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  A collection of early films by Chantal Akerman.

  A selection of early films by Chantal Akerman.
• The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

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  When the moment of violence arrives, abruptly, at the half-way point, it does so in flurry of handheld camerawork, striking sound design and stark symbolism.

  The son of a white man and an Aboriginal woman is pushed to the limit by racism and spirals into violence.
• Chaos Walking (2021)

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  The high concept - that the thoughts of everyone on the dystopian New World appear as a cloud of "noise" about their head - does, ironically, take some getting your head around.

  On a dystopian futuristic planet, all men's thoughts appear as "noise" around their heads... a problem for young Todd when he runs across a space girl.
• The Chaplin Revue (2010)

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  It's definitely a fit of nostalgia for better days, at least artistically, and it's still a joy to see these shorts put into a form which is more accessible for latter day audiences.

  Three short, silent Charlie Chaplin comedies - A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim - in a restored edition with new music.
• Character (1997)

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  The actors perform with admirable restraint in an atmosphere that cuts holes in your heart.

  How a boy came to attack his father.
• Charcoal (2022)

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  For most of the running time, the film is warm and light-hearted, despite viewers’ steadily growing awareness that it might end in bloodshed.

  A rural family who make their living from a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreigner, who turns out to be using their home as a hideout.
• Chariots Of Fire (1981)

  Racist and snobbish undercurrents to British success at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.
• Charlatan (2020)

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  Though the director and stars bring a frisson to the relationship between Palko and his boss - the most fictive element of the plot - the script falls short in terms of fleshing out what lies beneath.

  Drama based on the life of herbalist Jan Mikolášek