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LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

Cinema has brought us some rare and arresting spectacles in 2019, but Daniel Craig having fun might just top the lot. It’s one of the many delights of Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s fiendishly enjoyable whodunnit, which has its UK premiere at the London Film Festival on Tuesday night. (The departing 007 plays gentleman sleuth Benoit Blanc.) Other notables still to screen include suspected Best Picture contender Le Mans ’66, with Christian Bale and Matt Damon, Sarah Gavron’s buzzy British coming-of-age drama Rocks, and Martin Scorsese’s career-capping mafia epic The Irishman, which rounds things off in style next Sunday night. Until Oct 13 (bfi.org.uk/lff)

JUDY

Renée Zellweger embodies a rake-thin, rasping Judy Garland, taking the London Palladium stage in her last months, supported by her husband (Finn Wittrock) and nervous assistant (Jessie Buckley). It can be touching, but Rupert Goold’s film zooms in on the car-crash years with a tabloidy zeal that’s faintly unseemly.

12A cert, 118 min

GOOD POSTURE

Dolly Wells directs Emily Mortimer in this comic drama about a feted author coming to terms with her father’s painfully young and spoiled new girlfriend (Grace Van Patten).

15 cert, 92 mins

SPOT THE KILLER Fiendish whodunnit Knives Out has its UK premiere at the London Film Festival