‘Ballerina’ review: stylish kills and simple thrills

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In the slick opening of South Korean action-thriller Ballerina, a disaffected young woman named Ok-ju (Jeon Jong-seo) effortlessly fends off a gang of knife-wielding robbers with canned pineapples. It’s a dynamo sequence set in a cramped

‘How To Have Sex’ review: a post-GCSEs blowout gone bad

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Everyone remembers their first mates holiday. The sweaty, vomit-smeared vibes of the Xanthi strip cannot easily be wiped from memory. You probably got sunburnt. You definitely drank too much. And with any luck, you snogged

‘The Marvels’ review: a quirky cosmic caper that lacks punch

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“I’m feeling so many feelings right now,” burbles Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), aka Ms Marvel, in Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, her likeable-if-limited entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This giddy gush of over-excitement, hero worship and teenage