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BENEDICTION (12A, 137 mins) Released: May 20 (UK & Ireland, selected cinemas) Liverpudlian writer-director Terence Davies explores the horror of the First World War through the eyes of one of England’s great poets in a melancholic drama nominated for two prizes at last year’s British Independent Film Awards.

As a soldier, Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden) is decorated for his bravery on the battlefield. However, the loss of young lives haunts Sassoon and he openly disobeys orders to become a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the conflict.

Faced with a possible court marital that would besmirch the family name, Sassoon accepts the advice of his friend Robbie Ross (Simon Russell Beale) and is moved to a military psychiatric hospital, where his behaviour is dismissed as a nervous breakdown.

Far from home, he meets

Wilfred Owen (Matthew Tennyson) and becomes a mentor to the young wordsmith.

THE INNOCENTS (15, 117 mins) Released: May 20 (UK & Ireland, selected cinemas)

Eskil Vogt, Oscarnominated screenwriter of The Worst Person In The World, directs and writes a tense psychological horror set during a bright Nordic summer, which warps and corrupts the tropes of a superhero origin story.

Nine-year-old Ida (Rakel Lenora Flottum) lives on a housing estate with her autistic sister Anna (Alva Brynsmo Ramstad).

The siblings struggle to communicate and little Ida explores her surroundings, meeting a neglected and bullied boy called Ben (Sam Ashraf ), who channels his rage and alienation into the murder of a cat.