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• Rental Family (2025)

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  It’s not a showy performance, but it’s a standout.

  A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese 'rental family' company to play stand-in roles in other people's lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his built-in family.
• Rent-A-Pal (2020)

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  Wheaton is excellent as the twee yet sinister Andy.

  A lonely carer looking for love becomes obsessed by a videotape featuring a man who offers to be his friend.
• Repeat (2021)

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  An impressive piece of work which punches well above its weight.

  An inventor whose daughter is missing develops a device which he believes he can use to communicate with the dead.
• The Report (2019)

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  The problem with The Report is that despite this ongoing relevance, its powerful subject matter, the capable cast and an impressive script, it never builds up the impetus it ought to have.

  The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
• The Reports On Sarah And Saleem (2018)

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  Muayad Alayan's beautifully observed, studiously discomfiting film has a lot to say about power and privilege.

  A man and a woman from two disparate worlds meet at nights just to have sex. However, when they get caught, the extra-marital relationship between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man causes tensions in the socio-politically divided Jerusalem.
• Repo Man (1984)

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  If late punk era filmmaking was all about style over substance, Alex Cox's seminal work has buckets of both.

  The intense life of a young punk repo man in a city haunted by a car with a secret.
• Repression (2020)

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  There's talk of everything from self-fulfilling prophecies to Schrodinger's Cat but no amount of cod philosophy and cod psychology can distract from the fact that this is a very familiar formula.

  A therapist starts to doubt reality after a 10-year-old tells her he can predict her future.
• Reprise (2006)

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  Reprise is difficult to watch. It demonstrates an originality and energy which requires control to make sense of itself.

  The literary life for two young friends in Norway.
• Repulsion (1965)

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  The beauty of this film is that as it carries us along we see how Carole's every reaction makes sense, even whilst occasional glimpses through the eyes of others show clearly that she has completely lost it.

  A lonely young woman gradually loses her mind.
• Requiem (2006)

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  Schmid's unsensational approach pays off, as Michaela's 'possession' reaches its climax.

  An epileptic student becomes possessed by demonic forces.
• Requiem for Mrs J (2017)

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  Comedy doesn't come in many darker shades than that employed by Serbian director Bojan Vuletic in Requiem For Mrs J, this is truly the vantablack of humour.

  Jelena wants to end her life and she’s only got a week to sort things out... a situation that proves difficult.
• Rescue Dawn (2006)

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  Beneath the cover of portraying the generalised horrors of war, the film is more subtly critical of America's conduct in both the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

  A US fighter pilot shot down in the Vietnamese jungle must go to extraordinary lengths to survive.
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)

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  Tarantino's talent for dialogue is what catapults Dogs into instant-classic status.

  Quentin Tarantino’s ultra-cool reworking of the tired old heist genre.
• Resident Evil (2002)

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  It is to writer/director Paul Anderson's credit that he retains the tension throughout.

  A futuristic genetic virus disaster movie, with a scary monster and living dead vampires.
• Resident Evil (2026)

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  The age rating with its warnings of gore and language doesn't quite cover the extent to which filth and fury are scattered.

  In an all-new story, a medical courier unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

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  Full of shocks, but disappointingly light on horror.

  Return of Mila Jovovich and the city of slavering zombies.
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

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  The Resident Evil movies have never been above looting from the cinematic back catalogue, and Extinction is no exception.

  Sci-fi sequel sees survivors again battling Umbrella Corp.
• Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

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  Audiences really need to wake up and put the nail in the Anderson Evil coffin once and for all.

  Series heroine Alice fights for a resistance movement as the deadly T virus spreads around the world.
• Resin (2019)

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  Director Daniel Borgman elicits careful performances from his capable cast, working hard to get past the assumptions commonly made about people in these circumstances.

  A girl is hidden from view, confined from modern society by her family. Yet as Liv’s curiosity to an existence outside her confinement comes to the fore, she starts to question her parents’ worldview.
• Resistance (2011)

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  It's Riseborough who carries it, and on whose carefully judged performance its emotional twists and turns depend.

  An alternate history story in which German soldiers occupy a Welsh village during World War Two.
• Resistance (2020)

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  Jakubowicz has achieved what every director depicting the Nazis strives to do but what most fail at - he has made them terrifying again.

  The story of Marcel Marceau, who before he became a world famous mime worked with the French Resistance which saved the lives of ten thousand orphans during the Second World War.
• Respect (2021)

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  For all the talent on display, it feels more like a TV special.

  A biopic about Aretha Franklin.
• The Restless (2021)

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  Lafosse makes excellent choices with his editor Marie-Hélène Dozo (long-time collaborator of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) in what is shown on screen and what is left out for us to fill in.

  A family struggles with the father's bipolar disorder.
• Restless (2024)

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  [Hart] doesn’t turn up the volume, but uses tone and repetition so effectively that the film becomes a microcosm of the real experience.

  The banal life of a middle-aged empty nester is violently shaken in the blink of an eye when hard-partying - and potentially dangerous - new neighbours move in next door.
• Restless Natives (1985)

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  The first half an hour of this rattles along with plenty of good humour, injected with further energy by the Big Country soundtrack, which is as dyed in the wool Scottish as a fine Highland kilt.

  Two friends start holding up tour buses.
• The Restoration At Grayson Manor (2025)

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  Director/co-writer Glenn McQuaid uses larger than life cinematic tropes as a means of getting at his subject effectively.

  After losing both hands in an accident, Boyd Grayson becomes the prime candidate for an experimental replacement procedure in this queer, campy, erotic horror.
• Restore Point (2023)

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  It’s nice to see a film which problematises familiar, overly comfortable assumptions about the sociological response to new technologies, and which doesn’t insist that babies need to be thrown out with bathwater.

  It’s the year 2041, and humanity has reached the point where it can cheat death. Anyone who dies an unnatural death has the right to be brought back to life. All you have to do is to create a backup of your personality – a restore point – at least every 48 hours. But a movement of people try to sabotage this concept.
• Retablo (2017)

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  It's difficult to express just what a bold piece of work this film is.

  A teenage boy finds his world turned upside down when he learns a secret about his beloved father.
• Retaliation (2017)

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  Orlando Bloom is stunning, a performance of looks and grunts and things unsaid and, gradually, of speaking.

  A man who suffered childhood sexual abuse is forced to confront his past.
• The Retaliators (2021)

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  Easy come, easy go entertainment for those who want to enjoy a bit of violence and still feel good about themselves.

  An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
• The Retreat (2020)

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  Wemple's command of a range of distinctive cinematic styles changes the tone between different sections of the narrative nicely.

  A hiking trip goes awry, leaving a man who was warned about the wendigo fighting for his sanity.
• The Retreat (2021)

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  All the familiar genre elements are there.

  A lesbian couple with a rocky relationship go to a pre-wedding retreat and end up fighting for their lives.
• The Return (2024)

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  Fiennes is lean in look and in performance, bringing an intensity that proves compelling.

  Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca after returning from the Trojan war.
• The Returned (2020)

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  There are shadows everywhere, shapes moving on the fringes of one's vision, and it's easy to suspect that one is being watched.

  The indigenous people of the Guarani tribe has either been exterminated or reduced to servitude. Julia, the wife of a wealthy landowner, gives birth to her third dead child. In desperation, she begs Kerana, her indigenous housekeeper with ancient powers, to bring him back to life - but he doesn't return alone.
• Returning To Reims (Fragments) (2021)

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  Never directly asking the question, but leaving liberté, égalité and fraternité to hang in the air between scenes and lines, Périot’s latest gives a voice to the voiceless, the disenfranchised, the forgotten.

  An intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.
• The Return: Life After ISIS

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  Clua's compassionate stance offers a counterweight to the way their stories are often presented by the populist press.

  A documentary about women who left their countries to join ISIS and their fight for repatriation.
• The Return Of Captain Invincible (1983)

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  Arkin fully inhabits the role, never once falling prey to the self-consciousness which is the downfall of many a film of this type.

  Retired alcoholic Captain Invincible is called out of retirement to take on the sinister Mr. Midnight.
• The Return Of Martin Guerre (1982)

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  Depardieu gives as strong a performance as he ever has and he's not let down by the supporting cast, that is superb.

  A soldier returns home from war in 1542 in France and is accused of being an imposter.
• The Return Of The King: Extended Edition (2003)

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  Numerous small changes work together to change the character of the battle.

  Gandalf and Aragorn lead the world of men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
• Return To Me (2000)

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  This is romance the way grandma remembers it.

  Romance beckons between a widower and the woman who received his wife's heart.
• Return To Silent Hill (2026)

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  There's little new here, and even less fresh.

  When a man receives a mysterious letter from his lost love, he is drawn to Silent Hill, a once familiar town now consumed by darkness.
• Return To The End (2022)

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  Letelier’s film has a haunting quality that will definitely make you want to reach out and give someone a hug.

  Love is at a crossroads for a family in the pandemic.
• The Reunion (2013)

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  Odell makes her audiences, fictional and actual, deliberately uncomfortable as she explores concepts of narrative and which kinds of speech we do and don't value.

  A school reunion is arranged, but one former student is determined to make the others face up to how they treated her.
• Reunited (2020)

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  Jargil's film isn't just an indictment of immigration system webs that forget real human lives are caught within them, it is also an exploration of what happens to families under these conditions.

  When Rana and Muhkles are forced to flee the war in Syria in a desperate search for stable and secure futures for their family, they are separated from their children. This film tells the family's story.
• Revealer (2022)

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  It may have a mid-Eighties BBC TV series vibe to it, but it passes the time amiably enough.

  Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980's Chicago.
• The Revenant (2015)

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  Times are tough, women are either chattels or the stuff of magical realist dream sequences and dialogue is frequently cut adrift in favour of animalistic grunts and muscularity.

  A frontiersman sets out for vengeance.
• Revenge (2017)

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  Fargeat uses a lot of old tricks to give her desert a haunting, mystical quality, but she uses them well in a film that oozes style.

• Revenge: Our Dad The Nazi Killer (2023)

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  It’s not particularly deep but it feels raw and honest, and it is doubtless something that many viewers will relate to – that difficulty in reckoning with a fundamentally different way of experiencing the world.

  A filmmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret network of Jewish vigilante groups, who, in the glaring absence of justice after the Holocaust, took the law into their own hands.
• Revenge Ride (2020)

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  Revenge Ride has a kind of rough-hewn grace, a purity that's rare in today's cinema.

  After a young woman is drugged at a party, her cousin's all-female biker gang rides out for revenge.
• Reversing Roe (2018)

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  Covering a lot of ground in its 99 minute runtime, the film is a good introduction for anyone struggling to grasp the mechanisms involved in recent political and judicial dealings relating to this issue.

  A look at campaigning aiming to overturn the US' Roe vs. Wade ruling on abortion, and efforts to defend it.