UK FILM TOP 10

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1. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (12A)

Written by best-selling JK Rowling, David Yates’s frequently thrilling sequel continues to expand and enrich mythologies beyond the wonder years of Harry Potter and his Hogwarts alumni. Eddie Redmayne endears us even more to his socially awkward loner as he brandishes a wand in the name of creatures great and monstrous.

2. The Grinch (U)

A good heart - even one two sizes too small - isn’t hard to find in the charming retelling of Dr Seuss’s seasonal fable. The Grinch is an early Christmas present crammed with cute critters, slapstick and bountiful community spirit.

3. Bohemian Rhapsody (12A)

Who wants to live forever? Freddie Mercury does in Bryan Singer’s musical biopic, a greatest hits tribute blessed with a heartbreaking performance from Rami Malek as the charismatic frontman, which includes Queen’s epic set at Live Aid.

4. Widows (15)

Desperate times demand resourceful women in Widows, a glossy heist thriller based on the 1980s TV series created by Lynda Laplante. Two breathlessly staged robberies, which quicken the pulse, bookend the picture but it’s a slow burn in between as the plot manoeuvres characters into position for a blood-spattered end game.

5. A Star Is Born (15)

The third remake of the rags-toriches fairytale stars Lady Gaga - undeniably luminous as a naive ingenue rocketing to fame - with Bradley Cooper as her grizzled mentor and lover. Both are serious Oscar contenders.

6. The Nutcracker And The Four Realms

ETA Hoffmann’s short story is a re-telling about a young girl gifted a locked egg who sets out in a magical land to retrieve the key, starring Keira Knightley and Morgan Freeman.

7. Overlord (18)

Director Julius Avery gleefully rewrites history in this excessively gory horror thriller, which unfolds on the eve of the Normandy Landings. A bloodthirsty script penned by Billy Ray and Mark L Smith adopts a black and white approach to characterisation - Germans bad, everyone else good.

8. Johnny English Strikes Again (PG)

Seven years after Rowan Atkinson’s MI7 agent blundered through the lacklustre sequel Johnny English Reborn, he dusts off that licence to kill once more for this action-packed third mission under the direction of Oliver Parker.

9. Thugs Of Hindostan

Based on Philip Meadows Taylor’s 1839 novel Confessions of a Thug, this Indian Hindi-language epic is the story of Ameer Ali and his gang who posed a serious challenge to the British Empire in India between 1790 and 1805.

10. Sarkar (12A)

Vijay comes to India from the USA to cast his vote, as it’s election day. But he soon learns that his vote has been cast by someone else. This provokes him into action and he gets involved in a political battle.