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• Death Of Nintendo (2020)

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  The adventure of teenage life is represented in all its glory.

  Hunting ghosts to impress girls. Undergoing circumcision in order to finally become a man. A pop homage to puberty and adolescence.
• Death On The Streets (2020)

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  A modern tragedy of male pride plays out in this low-key character study.

  A family man's pride puts him on the slippery slope to loss after work dries up.
• Death Proof (2007)

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  Death Proof is as much an experience as it is a movie for those who love movies.

  Quentin Tarantino's glorious grindhouse send-up.
• Death Race (2008)

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  So long as you don't care about how cars go or how reality works or how people can continue to get away with making movies without a single credible acting performance, or anything, you'll almost certainly enjoy yourself.

  A prisoner is offered his freedom if he can win a motor race - but just staying alive is hard enough!
• Death Ranch (2020)

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  On days when watching Nazis get punched on YouTube isn't enough, this hits the spot.

  Three African American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult
• Death To Metal (2019)

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  Death To Metal has been made by people who understand their audience perfectly.

  After a freak accident, a disturbed priest is transformed into a mutated killing machine on a mission to wipe out the godless fans of heavy metal music.
• Death Valley (2021)

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  For what it is, this film really shines.

  Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominous facility, they find themselves in a fight for their lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature.
• Death Wish (2018)

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  The film is not dedicated to the NRA although it should have been.

  Reputable surgeon turns vigilante to avenge the death of his wife.
• The Debt Collector (1999)

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  Scenes hold so long, you wonder whether the director is out to lunch.

  A debt collector turned sculptor finds himself dragged back into a life of crime.
• The Debut (2026)

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  Eisenberg’s obvious love of amateur dramatics provides The Debut with a foundation that feels akin to a warm hug.

  A shy housewife is unexpectedly cast in a local am-dram original musical. Under the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director, she loses herself in the role.
• Deception (2008)

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  As a thriller, a piece of soft porn, or a character study, the film is room temperature.

  Softcore thriller about a Wall Street auditor brought into a world of sleaze.
• Deception (2021)

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  Desplechin eases us into the goings-on without sacrificing any of Roth’s complicated and thorny subject matter.

  An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.
• Decibel (2022)

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  The film is littered with great set pieces which will have you on the edge of your seat.

  An incident on a submarine leads to a crisis in which a city is threated by bombs which will go off if sound levels nearby get too high.
• Decision To Leave (2022)

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  Park does it the hard way, building up a complex psychological and intellectual relationship in which sexual desire feels like an emergent characteristic rather than a starting point.

  A detective investigates a man's death in the mountains.
• Deconstructing Harry (1997)

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  Being prolific implies over-exposure and repetition. Not with Allen. He gets better. He takes more risks.

  Comedy about a writer with permanent block.
• The Deeper You Dig (2019)

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  The tight-knit production unit brings natural chemistry to the film.

  Driving home drunk one snowy Catskills night, Kurt Miller accidentally kills 14 year-old Echo Allen sledding in the dark. As Kurt desperately tries to cover up the crime and his tracks, Echo's mother is looking for her missing child - and her child is looking for her.
• The Deepest Breath (2023)

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  McGann poises her film between Stephen and Alessia’s story, rounding out the background with those who know them both and, in a nice bit of balance, both of their fathers.

  A champion freediver and expert safety diver seemed destined for one another despite the different paths they took to meet at the pinnacle of the freediving world. A look at the thrilling rewards — and inescapable risks — of chasing dreams through the depths of the ocean.
• Deep Blue Sea (1999)

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  As a look-what-we-can-do-with-animatronics showcase, the movie has its cheesy moments.

  Research scientists may end up swimming with the fishes after sharks fight back.
• The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

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  Rachel Weisz makes it her own, delivering a powerful, raw performance that is undoubtedly Oscar material.

  A married woman faces emotional turmoil after she falls for another man.
• The Deep Dark (2023)

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  It’s in [its] understanding of working life that the film really excels, and it’s refreshing to see working class characters given centre stage in a story like this.

  Miners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.
• Deep Impact (1998)

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  The writers, Michael (The Player) Tolkin and Bruce Joel (Ghost) Rubin are award winners. Why have they churned out a run-of-the-mildew script that makes Volcano read like a tight human interest item?

  We're all doomed (again).
• Deep Rising (2023)

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  Rather than focusing on [the deep sea's] obvious wonders – those who fit the conventional beauty standards of humans – Rytz finds beauty in the strangeness of deep water creatures, inviting us to appreciate them on their own terms.

  The fate of the planet's last untouched wilderness, the deep ocean, is under threat as a secretive organisation is about to allow massive extraction of seabed metals to address the world's energy crisis.
• Deep Rivers (2018)

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  Bitokov develops the shifting, brooding relationships of the men well but other elements of the story are given short shrift.

  A stark landscape, unforgiving surroundings, gruelling work, and intense conflicts within the family circle – a vicious circle, the burden of which is only accentuated by the return of the youngest brother, who is to take the place of his sick father in this family of lumberjacks.
• Deep Sea (2023)

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  Though aimed at children, it’s so beautiful that viewers of all ages will find themselves enraptured.

  A girl strays into the dreamy deep sea world. In the deepest part of the sea, all secrets are hidden.
• Deerskin (2019)

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  The director proves a master of the tragicomic as he observes one man's slip from midlife crisis to madness by way of obsession.

  Georges, 44, and his jacket, 100 per cent deerskin, have a plan.
• The Deer King (2021)

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  Directed by Masashi Ando, this is absolutely gorgeous... For all its beauty though, it labours.

  When a pack of dogs race through a Zol-controlled mine, Van, an enslaved former soldier, and a young girl named Yuna are both bitten, but manage to escape as the sole survivors of the attack. They seek out a simple, peaceful existence in the countryside but the deadly Black Wolf Fever complicates everything.
• Defence Of The Realm (1985)

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  A taut thriller rooted in several strong performances.

  After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.
• Defiant (2023)

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  A film that lives in the moment.

  This documentary offers unique access to Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and other key figures in the administration who are fighting to save their country against Russia's invasion by combatting disinformation.
• The Defiant Ones (1956)

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  Both the principal actors are on great form.

  Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
• Degenerates (2018)

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  The film offers an interesting play on the concept of reality and fiction.

  A screenwriter recruits a group of eccentric characters to go and find a missing teenage girl, with the intention of turning the search into a true story script.
• Deja Vu (2006)

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  The incomparable Denzel Washington gives another of his thoughtful, sensitive performances that carries a surplus of the dignity gene.

  A detective in New Orleans goes back in time to solve a mystery and save lives.
• Delicatessen (1990)

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  Superbly conceived, brilliantly executed, it surpasses expectation and defies description.

  In a post-holocaust world, a butcher and landlord feeds his customers on the flesh of unfortunate tenants.
• Delicious (2025)

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  Manages to squeeze solid performances from actors and to infuse the run of the mill story with some dense and tense atmosphere set against the backdrop of the overall slickness of Frank Griebe’s cinematography

  A family's apparently perfect façade starts to crumble when an accident leads them to hire a maid.
• Delikado (2022)

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  After we see the extent of the problem, the documentarian begins to illustrate that the illegal logging is not just one or two rogue operators but intricately connected with a political chain.

  Bobby, Tata and Nieves – a charismatic lawyer, a former illegal logger and a fearless politician – are three magnetic leaders fighting to stop corporations and governments seeking to plunder increasingly valuable natural resources from the island of Palawan.
• The Delinquents (2023)

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  Moreno isn’t shy about his use of symbolism...What this effects to disguise, however, is the degree to which [the men's] own thinking has been shaped by symbols and by the belief system which surrounds them.

  Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
• Delius - Song Of Summer (1968)

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  Russell's dramatisation is exceedingly accomplished.

  The last days of Delius, as seen through the eyes of his musical assistant, Eric Fenby.
• Deliverance (1972)

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  Deliverance works brilliantly as both film entertainment and in exposing and critiquing the condition of the white middle-class American male in the wake of Vietnam and all that.

  Men on a bonding session find it's murder on the river.
• Dementer (2019)

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  Very different in tone from the average horror film, Dementer prompts questions about how we measure mental capacity, social functioning and even individuality.

  A woman who has recently fled a cult takes a job as a carer and becomes convinced that her charge is in danger from devils.
• Demigod (2021)

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  Flimsy though all this is, it’s never actually unlikeable.

  Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in the Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaiting them.
• Demonic (2021)

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  This movie sucks cocks in hell.

  A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.
• Dendera (2011)

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  In truth, although the story sets up Dendera in contrast to the traditional male norm, there’s little new empowerment or deeper understanding gained.

  A sequel to The Ballad of Narayama by Imamura's son Daisuke Tengan: the old women sent up the mountain to die instead plan a revenge attack on the village below.
• The Departed (2006)

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  After messy, overblown mishaps like Gangs Of New York, the maestro of Mean Streets is back. With a vengeance.

  Two cops in Boston go undercover on either side of organised crime.
• Departures (2025)

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  There is plenty here for viewers to relate to, whether or not they’ve ever gone to those extremes. There’s also an ample supply of humour, with laugh-out-loud moments occurring in the bleakest situations.

  Benji meets Jake at an airport check-out gate and is immediately intrigued. Jake is fit, elusive, dominant and, as Benji happily suspects, ‘a bit gay’. Cue monthly getaways to Amsterdam, a lot of sex and the creeping emergence of a doomed power dynamic.
• Depeche Mode: M (2025)

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  Although chiefly a concert film, Frias also includes more experimental segments in which Mexico’s relationship with death is considered.

  Captures the band's 2023 Mexico City shows, blending concert footage with interstitial elements, exploring music, mortality, and Mexican culture's relationship with death.
• Depraved (2019)

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  At the centre of the film, Breaux is superb, not only capturing the pathos vital to the monster but carrying him through the long, slow process of cognitive development and emotional realisation without ever striking a false note.

  A disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft.
• Derek Vs Derek (2026)

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  The strength of the film lies not just in the personalities of its leads, but in the rich detail observed throughout.

  On a country road in Devon, England, live two implacably opposed neighboring farmers, both called Derek. One believes in intensive farming of his land so that food can be produced in abundance; the other is creating an oasis for nature on his land, driven by an entirely different perception of agriculture and a farmer‘s duties.
• Dernsie: The Amazing Life Of Bruce Dern (2026)

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  It’s somewhat odd that Mendez has opted for several different styles for this, but every one is enjoyable.

  A documentary examining the life and cinematic achievements of the celebrated actor.
• The Descendants (2011)

  Review preview for The Descendants

  Payne's premise resembles a dare: How can I make you care for a person who looks and acts like this? He works the Disney device of love at first sight in reverse.

  A father is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future.
• The Descent (2005)

  Review preview for The Descent

  Effective and brilliantly crafted...

  Six girls on a caving expedition find they are not alone in the dark.
• A Desert (2024)

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  There’s a fantastically unhinged performance in here which it would be a spoiler to say too much about. Everyone is good at what they do.

  A photographer on a road trip meets a carefree young couple and finds himself in danger.