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• You, Me And Him (2017)

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  The sun shines, friends are endlessly patient (if not always very understanding), and even during its bleak moments, there’s always the promise of a happy ending.

  A lawyer is anxious to have a baby but her artist girlfriend keeps putting it off. Then her neighbour gets involved.
• You Only Live Twice (1967)

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  The film that saw the super-spy become larger-than-life.

  James Bond heads off to Japan in Roald Dahl's wacky adaptation.
• You Resemble Me (2021)

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  Both girls deliver exceptional performances in the powerful opening section, and if the film struggles to make the same impact afterwards, that serves to bring Hasna’s loss into sharp relief.

  Cultural and inter-generational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris.
• You Will Die At Twenty (2019)

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  It's as though the director is so in love with the striking visual aesthetic that he forgets the need to narratively connect the dots.

  A boy struggles to cope with a prediction in childhood that he will die at 20.
• You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

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  This is far from vintage Allen, yet it's still a cut above most similar dramatic work.

  Moving through difficult life changes, a group of people discover that illusions can be as significant as reality.
• You Won't Be Alone (2022)

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  It presents a radically different cinematic language, childlike, initially amoral, lyrical.

  In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep-seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.
• Yukiko (2018)

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  The human tragedy at the centre of this tale brings historic events crashing into the present and makes the impact of the war on human lives a much more tangible reality.

  The filmmaker contemplates the Japanese grandmother she never knew.
• Yuli (2018)

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  It's in dance that the film's strength lies, illustrating, through choreography, Acosta's more abstract - and more negative - emotions, including fear, loneliness and lust.

  The true story of Carlos Acosta, a black Cuban dancer who rose from an impoverished childhood to find international acclaim as a ballet dancer with London's Royal Ballet.
• Yummy (2019)

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  There's some gory comedy here that will appeal to a certain sort of genre fan, including one of the best uses for intestines since Machete.

  When a young man releases a woman he finds strapped to a gurney in a shade plastic surgery clinic, he doesn't realise that he's unleashing a zombie plague.
• Yuni (2021)

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  Kandini isn’t interested in stories about cruel, powerful men and helpless girls, or girls who are desperate to devote themselves to some other passion. Everybody here is complicated and insecure on some level.

  In her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the expectations of her community.
• Yuri!!! On Ice (2016)

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  With so much built around a prepubescent fantasy of what the perfect romance might look like, it runs out of places to go and often feels too safe for there to be any real tension.

  A young figure skater develops new confidence and is inspired to pursue his dreams when the man he has always idolised decides to become his coach.
• Yuva (2018)

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  In the moments when Yeksan's film is good, it is truly stunning.

  A man finds his existence in the forest threatened, as he brother tries to persuade him to return to civilisation.
• Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

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  The actors have great chemistry and potently communicate things about human behavior in relationships, universal and specific, self-destructive and kind.

  Biopic of the French fashion designer.
• Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

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  The characters of Tenoch and Julio are beautifully realised by Luna and Bernal. They bring energy and verve.

  Two randy middle-class Mexican lads go on a road trip with sophisticated Spanish lady