Odeon Colchester

• 2023
• US
• 1h 54min
• 12A

• Directed by: Greta Gerwig
• Cast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.

• 71%
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• 2023
• US
• 2h 13min
• 12A

• Directed by: Gareth Edwards
• Cast: John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Allison Janney

An old soldier finds a robot, in the form of a young boy, and it could change the course of the war.

• 73%
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• 2023
• 1h 14min
• 15

• Directed by: Craig Gillespie
• Cast: America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan

The story of how Gamestop became one of the world's most valuable stocks.

• 71%
• 66%

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• 2023
• US
• 1h 49min
• PG

• Directed by: Peter Sohn
• Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen

Elemental is the latest Disney-Pixar feature, based in a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together. When Ember, a fiery young woman meets Wade, a go-with-the-flow guy, they discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common. Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur), Elemental draws inspiration from Sohn's youth, growing up as the son of immigrants in New York City during the 1970s, highlighting the city's distinct cultural and ethnic diversity.

• 70%
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• 2023
• US
• 1h 49min
• 18

• Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
• Cast: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman, Sonia Ammar

Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Feeling surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

• 71%
• 58%

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• 2021
• Japan
• 2h 34min
• 15

• Directed by: Mahiro Maeda, Katsuichi Nakayama, Kazuya Tsurumaki
• Cast: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura

The final instalment of Hideaki Anno's 'Rebuild of Evangelion' franchise.

• 80%
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• 1973 (2000)
• US
• 2h 12min
• 18

• Directed by: William Friedkin
• Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Linda Blair

Writer William Peter Blatty always griped that, in excising twenty minutes from The Exorcist, Friedkin removed its moral centre and obscured its theological message. To Blatty's horror, some people thought the Devil won. Friedkin has reinstated eleven minutes of footage, and the re-editing job is done so lovingly that fans are unlikely to feel cynically exploited. Even so, Friedkin's cuts have mostly been vindicated but­ it now feels too long, while the infamous 'spider walk' scene merely adds a cheap and redundant shock.

• 81%
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• 2022
• US
• 1h 43min
• 15

• Directed by: Scott Waugh
• Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Megan Fox, 50 Cent, Andy Garcia, Tony Jaa

Sly Stallone and co reunite for another testosterone-heavy actionfest.

• 52%
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• 2017
• 2h 2min
• 15

• Directed by: Malcolm D Lee
• Cast: Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith

Four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival and rediscover their wild sides. The fact that peeing on a crowd of partygoers is depicted as a show of female solidarity and mega dance-offs are the way to recover from hallucinogenic absinthe freak-outs makes this an indecently refreshing tonic of a film.

• 62%
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• 2023
• US
• 1h 43min
• 12A

• Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
• Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Riccardo Scamarico

Kenneth Branagh returns as Poirot who, now retired, attends a séance at which one of the guests is murdered. Based on Agatha Christie's novel, Hallowe'en Party.

• 68%
• 63%

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• 1993
• US
• 1h 37min
• PG

• Directed by: Kenny Ortega
• Written by: David Kirschner/Mick Garris
• Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw

Three 17th century witches are brought back to life in modern-day Salem, and go searching for young blood to keep them immortal. Max (Katz) is our hapless hero, helped out of one predicament to the next by resourceful heroine Allison (Vinessa Shaw). The story cracks along, the effects are moderate, the gags good, but it's for the younger end of the teen market.

• 69%
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• 2023
• US
• 2h 34min
• 12A

• Directed by: James Mangold
• Cast: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Toby Jones, Antonio Banderas

In a race to save the world, Indiana Jones must find an ancient artefact and secure it.

• 67%
• 58%

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• 2023
• UK
• 3h 40min
• 18

• Directed by: Ivo van Hove
• Cast: James Norton, Luke Thompson, Omari Douglas, Zach Wyatt, Elliot Cowan, Zubin Varla, Nathalie Armin, Emilio Doorgasingh

James Norton (Happy Valley, Grantchester) stars in the theatrical event as visionary director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) stages the English language premiere of A Little Life. Filmed live at the Savoy Theatre, London, during its West End run, this record-breaking and ‘beautifully acted’ production of the million-copy bestseller by Hanya Yanagihara comes to the big screen for a limited time only.

The critically acclaimed five-star play also stars Luke Thompson (Bridgerton), Omari Douglas (It’s A Sin), Zach Wyatt (The Witcher), Elliot Cowan (The Crown), Zubin Varla (Tammy Faye), Nathalie Armin (Force Majeure) and Emilio Doorgasingh (Best of Enemies).

A Little Life follows four college friends in New York City: aspiring actor Willem, successful architect Malcolm, struggling artist JB, and prodigious lawyer Jude. As ambition, addiction, and pride threaten to pull the group apart, they always find themselves bound by their love for Jude and the mysteries of his past. But when those secrets come to light, they finally learn that to know Jude St Francis is to understand the limitless potential of love in the face of life.

• 74%

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• 2003
• US / NZ
• 3h 30min
• 12A

• Directed by: Peter Jackson
• Cast: Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, Christopher Lee

A remarkable end to a remarkable series of films, the journey of Frodo, Sam and Gollum is the pièce de résistance of the trilogy. The tension-filled journey forces both Gollum and Sam to show their true colours as Frodo suffers under the burden of the ring. All around is war as Aragorn fights to reclaim what is rightfully his. Jackson's vision is awesome. The Return of the King is some kind of beautiful, some kind of masterpiece. Unmissable.

• 90%
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• 2023
• 1h 50min
• 15

• Directed by: Michael Chaves
• Cast: Bonnie Aarons, Taissa Farmiga, Anna Popplewell

Valak, the demon nun, has returned to the mortal world. Sister Irene must defeat her.

• 59%
• 47%

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• 2023
• UK / US
• 3h
• 15

• Directed by: Christopher Nolan
• Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

• 86%
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• 2023
• 1h 32min
• PG

• Directed by: Cal Brunker
• Cast: Finn Lee-Epp, Ron Pardo, Mckenna Grace

A meteorite gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The Mighty Pups.

• 60%
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• 1975
• UK
• 1h 40min
• 15

• Directed by: Jim Sharman
• Written by: Richard O'Brien, Jim Sharman
• Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, Charles Gray

The cult film to end all others, this rock spoof on old horror movies has created a breed of Rocky Horror crazies, and packs them in at late shows everywhere. The film has its moments, and Curry is splendidly camp as the bisexual Frank N Furter.

• 74%
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• 2023
• UK

Expect sun, fun and vocal acrobatics in Laurent Pelly’s much-loved staging of Donizetti’s intoxicating and witty comedy. A co-production with Opéra national de Paris.

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• 2023
• 1h 58min
• 18

• Directed by: Kevin Greutert
• Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Steven Brand

John Kramer travels to Mexico for an experimental surgery to cure his cancer. When he discovers the treatment is a scam, he exacts his revenge.

• 77%

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• 2010
• US
• 1h 33min
• PG

• Directed by: Mike Mitchell
• Written by: William Steig, Josh Klausner, Darren Lemke
• Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Walt Dohrn, Jon Hamm, Jane Lynch, Craig Robinson

A fourth and final instalment, rebooting the flagging franchise with a new alternate-reality twist which sees Shrek escape fatherhood for a one-day return to his bachelor years. A warmed-over sequel that lazily re-configures familiar elements to mildly pleasing effect.

• 63%
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• 2023
• US
• 1h 39min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jeff Rowe
• Cast: Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, Nicolas Cantu, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Natasia Demetriou, Ayo Edebiri, Giancarlo Esposito, Post Malone, Brady Noon, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph

The turtles take on an army of mutants.

• 73%
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• 1995
• US
• 1h 21min
• PG

• Directed by: John Lasseter
• Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, John Morris, Laurie Metcalf, Erik von Detten

It isn't just the state-of-the-art images that distinguish Disney's first computer-generated animation feature, it's got a cracking adventure story too. A tale of friendship and self-belief combined with an exciting rescue and against-the-clock tension, Toy Story is sprinkled with comic asides. Don't be fooled into thinking these toys are just for the kids.

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