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Gary of the Pacific
The Project’s Josh Thomson plays a guy who struggles with his return to his Pasifika island home and an inherited chief title after too long in the fast lane of Palmerston North. Daft but irresistible.
Kong: Skull Island
Enjoyable if ropey rethink of the giant ape story also attempts remake of Apocalypse Now.
The Innocents
An austere and unsettling story of a doctor tending a convent of nuns brutalised in the aftermath of World War II. Not flawless, but a better examination of piety than Martin Scorsese’s Silence.
Loving
Jeff Nichols’ portrait of a couple’s reluctant fight against laws barring interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia. Sweet, tender, delicate and vital.
Alone in Berlin
Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson star in this story of resistance in wartime Berlin. Orthodox and straightforward.
Logan
Supposedly dark and stripped-down X-Men story turns out to be just another superhero movie, only slightly bloodier and more bludgeoning.
T2 Trainspotting
Director Danny Boyle reunites the
drugaddled Edinburgh clan of his 1996 hit for a spirited, if melancholic, middle-aged sequel.
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