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MAURICE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
Reissue of the impeccably crafted screen version of the E.M. Forster novel, in which a young Edwardian man slowly but movingly comes to terms with his homosexuality in the face of widespread bigotry. Out Fri 27 Jul.
Disney follows hot on the heels of last year’s Goodbye Christopher Robin with another origin story for Winnie-the- Pooh. Director Marc Foster has form for this sort of thing. Out Fri 17 Aug. THE EQUALIZER 2
THE DARKEST MINDS A group of teens rebel against a world that fears everyone aged under 18. Out Fri 10 Aug.
Training Day director Antoine Fuqua directs this sequel to the film based on the Edward Woodward-starring TV series. Out Fri 17 Aug.
THE MEG BLACKKKLANSMAN
Jason Statham battles an enormous Megalodon. Out Fri 10 Aug.
MILE 22 More military shenanigans from director Peter Berg, following an elite US intelligence officer trying to smuggle a person of interest out of the country. Out Fri 10 Aug.
THE NEGOTIATOR CIA operatives send in a former US diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind in Beirut. Out Fri 10 Aug.
In 1978, Ron Stallworth, the first black man to join the Colorado Springs police, goes undercover in the Ku Klux Klan, with the help of fellow officer Flip. A stranger-than-fiction true story fusing buddy cop traditions with anger at Trump’s America. Fascinating, funny and riveting. Out Fri 24 Aug.
COLUMBUS When his father is taken ill, Jin heads to Columbus, Indiana. There he meets Casey, who is full of bright ideas but is stifled by a complex relationship with her mother. Out Fri 31 Aug.
The Happy Prince
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