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Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
“Flawless tragicomedy of male friendship gone sour” Observer ★★★★★
Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Martin McDonagh) and Best Actor (Colin Farrell)
Directed by Martin McDonagh
With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan, Kerry Condon
1hr 54 mins // UK/IRE 2022
This February half-term, everyone’s favourite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns.
For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots on his grandest quest yet.
“A sharp, striking Shrek spin-off” Guardian ★★★★
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Directed by Joel Crawford
Voiced by Antonio Banderas
1hrs 40 mins // US 2022
The true story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched in 1955 while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Guardian ★★★★ Empire ★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★
Directed by Chinonye Chukwu
With Danielle Deadwyler
2hrs 10 mins // US 2022
London, 1953. Civil servant William is a cog within the city’s bureaucracy. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty. However, when he receives a shattering medical diagnosis, he is forced to act to try and grasp fulfilment before it goes beyond reach.
“Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama” Guardian ★★★★★
“Bill Nighy is brilliant in this graceful, affecting Akira Kurosawa remake” Telegraph ★★★★★
“Bill Nighy is magnificent” Times ★★★★
Directed by Oliver Hermanus
With Bill Nighy
1hr 42 mins // UK 2022
From Academy Award®-winning director and writer Sam Mendes, Empire of Light is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times. Set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, it follows Hilary (Olivia Colman) a cinema manager struggling with her mental health, and Stephen (Micheal Ward), a new employee who longs to escape this provincial town in which he faces daily adversity. Both Hilary and Stephen find a sense of belonging through their unlikely and tender relationship and come to experience the healing power of music, cinema, and community.
“Olivia Colman shines in Sam Mendes’ darkening hymn to cinema” Guardian ★★★★
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Directed by Sam Mendes
With Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin Firth
1hr 55 mins // UK 2022
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure.
“Eccentric, soulful, joyous, dark and very, very blue.” Empire ★★★★★
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture
Directed by James Cameron
With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana
3hr 12 mins // US 2022
Academy Award® winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on the big screen as exes who find themselves on a shared mission to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made. From Working Title, Smokehouse Pictures and Red Om Films, Ticket to Paradise is a romantic comedy about the sweet surprise of second chances.
Directed by Ol Parker
With George Clooney, Julia Roberts
1hr 44 mins // US 2022
Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
“Intelligent, quietly defiant, and gorgeously appointed period drama.” The i ★★★★★
“Vicky Krieps puts in a star turn as lonely, patronised Elizabeth of Austria” Guardian ★★★★
Times ★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★
*In German, French and English
Directed by Marie Kreutzer
With Vicky Krieps
1hr 54 mins
Two-time Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education) and Emmy nominee Zoe Kazan (The Plot Against America, The Big Sick) star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation— a story that shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and impelled a shift in American culture that continues to this day.
“A stirring drama about the fall of Harvey Weinstein” Guardian ★★★★
Times ★★★★ Empire ★★★★
Directed by Maria Schrader
With Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan
2hrs 9 mins // US 2022
In this delightful comedy romp, Jon Hamm stars as the roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch, who becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit–from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbour and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend.
Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized!
Guardian ★★★ Express ★★★
Directed by Greg Mottola
With Jon Hamm, Annie Mumolo
1hr 38 mins // US 2022