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Hilary (Olivia Colman) manages a seafront picture palace in Margate. Once an opulent multiscreen cinema with a dance hall overlooking the sea, now only one screen remains open, albeit a grand one. In preparation for a regional premiere of Chariots of Fire, Hilary and her colleagues - played by a heavyweight ensemble that includes Toby Jones, Colin Firth, Tom Brooke and Michael Ward - spruce up the venue. Outside, the town itself is crumbling, with a rising far-right presence and Stephen (Ward) regularly harassed by skinheads. Mendes delivers a stirring ode to the cinema — as a space for collective experience, offering the pleasures and balms of watching films in darkness together.

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From producer-writer-director Todd Field comes Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. Tár examines the changing nature of power, its impact and durability in our modern world.

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