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AMULET, ALL4

THIS slow-burning and atmospheric British chiller is written and directed by the actress Romola Garai, but it is a very different animal to her best-known acting role in the 2009 TV adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. It takes place primarily in one location, the creaky, mould-dripping house that becomes a roof over the head of homeless ex-soldier Tomaz (Alec Secareanu, from another hit British indie film, God’s Own Country). The decrepit suburban house belongs to a mother and daughter, and it’s an elderly nun (Imelda Staunton) who takes Tomaz there to find shelter and to help the women — especially the daughter, Magda (Carla Juri, pictured with Staunton) — with some much-needed restoration work. But there are far worse things than peeling wallpaper and dribbling taps lurking beneath the building’s precarious roof (bats, for one thing) and it’s an increasingly unsettling scenario that plays right into Tomaz’s traumatic past.