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THE EXTRAORDINARY 114 minutes (M)

Bruno (Vincent Cassel) runs a cash-strapped refuge in Paris for people with severe autism. Malik (Reda Kateb) trains up unemployed youths to be their carers.

Directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (The Intouchables) first met Stephane Benhamou, the real-life figure upon whom the film is based, 25 years ago.

Their intimate knowledge of the subject matter tells. A warm, compassionate — and often funny — film about a tough subject. The Extraordinary is grittier than Nakache and Toledano’s 2011 crowd-pleaser — starring Francois Cluzet as a paraplegic millionaire and Omar Sy as his streetsmart carer — but it tackles difficult material with a similar lightness of touch.

Screening on Stan from September 6

THE NEW MUTANTS Unreviewed 94 minutes (M)

AFTER a number of false starts, the “final” instalment in the X-Men franchise is finally here. Former Fox CEO Stacey Snider has described The New Mutants as “a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers”. Starring Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton and Alice Braga, it was shot on location at Medfield State Hospital, which also featured in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.

Don’t expect too much from director Josh Boone’s (The Fault In Our Stars) horror-tinged addition to the superhero universe on which principal photography began in July 2017.

The film’s release was delayed five times. When Boone finally got the chance to do his intended reshoots, the cast had aged too much to make this feasible.

Opens in cinemas on September 3