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One Thousand Ropes
The wonderful second feature by Samoanborn director Tusi Tamasese mixes workaday social realism with elements of folk-tale in his story of a traditional healer with a troubled past.
Aquarius
A biting Brazilian socio-political satire starring Sônia Braga as a tenant refusing to be forced out of her apartment by developers.
Gary of the Pacific
The Project’s Josh Thomson plays a guy who struggles with his return to his Pacific Island home and an inherited chiefly 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 a 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.
T2 Trainspotting
Director Danny Boyle reunites the
drugaddled Edinburgh clan of his 1996 hit for a spirited, if melancholic, middle-aged sequel.
The Great Wall Moonlight Logan Toni Erdmann Silence