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Much Ado About Nothing
Released: 14/06/2013
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Everyone knows the best teen films are adapted from Shakespeare, but director Joss Whedon (Avengers Assemble, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is diverging rather wildly from the Clueless /Ten Things I Hate About You template with this elegant black and white number, set in the adult world and shot secretly over 12 days in his own house. He's even used the original text...
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Man of Steel
Released: 14/06/2013
General release
There are no pants visible in this much-hyped new take on Superman's origin story, which places emphasis on spectacle and its protagonist's emotional life. Most audiences were won over by the serious tone of the Dark Knight franchise (Christopher Nolan had a hand in this film too) despite the fact that it was about a man dressed as a bat, so perhaps director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) is on to a good thing here.
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Behind the Candelabra
Released: 07/06/2013
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Stephen Soderbergh's glitzy biopic focuses on the relationship between super-star pianist Liberace and his young lover and chauffeur, Scott Thorson, who later sued him for ‘palimony'. Expect a spot of plastic surgery and plenty of costume changes, with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon playing the increasingly uneasy couple.
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The Iceman
Released: 07/06/2013
General release
They sound like comic-book characters, but The Iceman and Mr Freezy, played by Michael Shannon and Chris Evans, were real killers. Young director Ariel Vromen takes a chilling look at New Jersey mobster Richard Kuklinski, who racked up more than 100 victims (while leading a normal suburban family life), and a kindred spirit, who made sinister use of an ice cream van.
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Therese Desqueyroux
Released: 07/06/2013
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Unhappily married women riling against provincial tedium is a trope we know well, but this has less of the comic desperation of Madame Bovary and more period seriousness. Marked out by the presence of Audrey Tatou in the lead, it is the late Claude Miller's last film, based on the novel by Nobel winner Francois Mauriac.
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Everybody has a Plan
Released: 31/05/2013
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Days of dragging hobbits around are well and truly behind Viggo Mortenson as he continues to build his presence in Spanish language cinema. His fourth feature sees the actor tackle an Argentinean stolen identity thriller in which he plays identical twins, Augustine and Pedro.
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Populaire
Released: 31/05/2013
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Set in the late 1950s this highly stylised French romantic comedy is a vintage shot in the arm, and evocative of old Hollywood comedies. Regis Roinsard's heroine Rose is terrible at her new clerical job but one special skill has her boss thinking she could make it to the top... in the world of competitive typing.
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Something in the Air
Released: 24/05/2013
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It is 1972. Still fixated on the 1968 May riots that saw Parisian students embrace revolution, a teenage artist and his girlfriend gear up to find their place in the rebellion. French director Olivier Assayas' drama has an uncanny resemblance to his own adolescence, and competed for last year's Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival.
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Grave Of The Fireflies (25th Anniversary)
Released: 24/05/2013
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In celebration of their 25th anniversary, the brilliant masters of Japanese animation re-release this powerful portrait of two siblings whose lives are torn apart during World War II. Also make sure to catch the equally enchanting My Neighbour Totoro – and if these names don’t sound familiar, check out the CultureCritic guide to Studio Ghibli.
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The Stoker
Released: 17/05/2013
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Well-known in Russia, director Aleksey Balabanov sounds a bit like Guy Ritchie on paper, though there's rather more post-Soviet rawness in his vicious gangster thrillers. The criminals this time find an aged Afghan war vet, who is attempting to write a novel about a criminal, has something they want: access to an incinerator.
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