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Claire Denis’s cynical yet spry romantic comedy Let The Sunshine In (15) ★★★★★ stars Juliette Binoche as Isabelle, a divorced artist desperate for love. By day she paints Pollocks, by night she dates, well, pillocks: married bankers, self-obsessed actors, lounge lizards. She becomes so lonesome that she consults a fortuneteller (Gérard Depardieu, looking alarmingly like Les Dawson), who stares hard into his crystal ball and none too subtly hints that he’s the man she’s looking for. Given Isabelle’s past form, you wouldn’t bet against her falling for it. I am making it sound sad, but it doesn’t feel like that because of Binoche’s performance. Jaded yet radiant, Isabelle doesn’t need to let the sunshine in. Wherever she goes, the day lights up. Darker doings in I, Tonya (15) ★★★, a biopic of championship figure skater Tonya Harding. You remember the story. In January 1994, during the run-up to the Lillehammer Winter Olympics, a rival skater called Nancy Kerrigan was attacked and forced out of the competition. It transpired the attacker had been hired by Harding’s exhusband to boost her chances of making the team. If that sounds low-life, get a load of the chainsmoking Hardings. They make Roseanne and her brood look like landed gentry. As Tonya’s hard-faced hockey mum, Allison Janney is terrifying. I was less convinced by Margot Robbie as Tonya. Even in a nasty perm, she looks a million dollars. As the credits roll, and you see the real Harding in action, you remember what all the fuss was about. Oldie of the week is the new Collector’s Edition of The Dam Busters (PG) ★★★★★, a 4K Blu-ray restoration of the classic.