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Glenn Close deserves a trophy for The Wife

The veteran actor brings award-worthy fire to her role as a woman too often cheated.

Dan Savage's HUMP! Film Festival promises a rendezvous with anus

The world’s only road-show festival of amateur porn returns to the Rio Theatre.

The Cakemaker cooks up a polysexual enigma

Can a relationship be based on lies, lust, and apple strudel?

Humans have few redeeming qualities in Under The Tree

Every bad situation is escalated by weird behaviour, underlined by gloomy lighting and ominous medieval music.

Who's talkin' about My Generation? Michael Caine, that's who

England swings again in this terrifically entertaining doc.

Things get very silly in Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle

Charm and a few edgy turns take the treacle out of this crowd-pleasing effort.

Skateboards cure heartache in Minding the Gap

Three boys grow up before our very eyes in this intimate visual diary.

Young boys fend for themselves in We the Animals

Moonlight meets Malick in this lyrical, low-budget character study.

Rich trash goes on parade in Generation Wealth

In her searing new doc, Lauren Greenfield catalogues the gross excesses of a culture in serious decline.

A young lad makes his way up the holy ladder in Becoming Who I Was

Here, documentary realism gives way to a kind of unhurried spiritual reverie.

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