Best New Films

The Raid

The Raid

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Gareth Evans' deliriously violent Indonesian martial arts flick is the most exciting action movie – and one of the best cinematic spectacles – of the last decade

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp

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Powell and Pressburger's sweeping drama is among the greatest achievements of any British filmmakers

She Monkeys

She Monkeys

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A startling, subtly Sapphic psychodrama based around the dynamics of a fiercely competitive female sport

Faust

Faust

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Alexandr Sokurov’s delirious and jovially grotesque take on Goethe’s 'Faust' is a journey you’ll want to take more than once

Two Years At Sea

Two Years At Sea

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Ben Rivers' stunning portrait of life in the wilderness is a remarkably lyrical and ideologically cohesive doc-fiction hybrid

Beauty And The Beast 3D

Beauty And The Beast 3D

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This 3D retro-fit of Disney's retelling of the eighteenth-century French fairy tale is pure cinematic joy

Monsieur Lazhar

Monsieur Lazhar

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Touching but never sentimental, Lazhar is a sensitive, hopeful treaty on grief and innocence lost

Le Quai Des Brumes

Le Quai Des Brumes

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Marcel Carné's visually stunning film is restored to its former glory in time for the BFI's Jean Gabin season

Lawrence Of Belgravia

Lawrence Of Belgravia

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Paul Kelly fashions a film which balances cool empathy with a brutal honesty about the various shortcomings of his tragic subject

Damsels In Distress

Damsels In Distress

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Mumblecore empress Greta Gerwig dazzles in Whit Stillman’s first film in 13 years

Being Elmo

Being Elmo

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A moving, engaging puppeteer doc guaranteed to put a smile on your face

Breathing

Breathing

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A startling and incisive teen morality drama from Austrian actor-turned-director Karl Markovics

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