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Victoria & Abdul
The story of Queen Victoria and the Indian clerk Abdul, who became the elderly sovereign’s faithful retainer, is an amusing and elegant costume drama but lacks nuance.
Spookers
A curiously endearing documentary about the folks who work at the popular South Auckland house-of-horror attraction.
6 Days
Director Toa Fraser’s account of the 1980 London Iranian Embassy hostage crisis is lean, taut, workmanlike and rigorously accurate.
The Free Man
A reasonably intriguing extreme-sports movie that follows champion Kiwi freestyle skier Jossi Wells as he joins Gallic daredevils the Flying Frenchies.
Wind River
Hell or High Water and Sicario screenwriter Taylor Sheridan makes a fine directorial debut in this chilly child-murder mystery set on a Native American reservation.
My Year With Helen
It offers a moderately fascinating look at the inner workings of the UN, but Gaylene Preston’s documentary about Helen Clark’s bid for the organisation’s top job emerges as an engrossing failure.
American Made
An energetic, gritty action film depicting the real-life adventures of a US pilot (Tom Cruise) hired by the CIA to smuggle Colombian cocaine.
Logan Lucky
Director Steven Soderbergh returns with an amusingly knockabout southern-fried racetrack heist flick.