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Films to see in the cinema

The Outfit

Eyes twinkling and shears close to hand, Mark Rylance plays an ex-Savile Row tailor with secrets
in a tightly plotted period whodunit set in the 1950s Chicago underworld. Cinemas

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

A third trip to the Harry Potter prequelverse finds magical fascism on the rise in 1930s Berlin, and
a young, unsettlingly hunky Dumbledore (Jude Law) in charge of the resistance. Cinemas

The Lost City

Romancing the Stone again? Why not? A reclusive author (Sandra Bullock) and her vapid cover
model (Channing Tatum) get stuck in the jungle together when a promotional tour goes
awry. Cinemas

Operation Mincemeat

Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Simon Russell Beale star in John Madden’s caperish wartime
thriller about the serpentine, and successful, misinformation campaign that kept the Allies’ 1943
invasion of Sicily under wraps. Cinemas

The Northman

A $70 million Viking revenge saga modelled on the myth of Amleth (ie Hamlet). Alexander
Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy and Claes Bang star; Robert Eggers (The Witch, The
Lighthouse) directs. Cinemas

Benedetta

Trust Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven to recount the life of lesbian abbess Benedetta Carlini
(Virginie Efira) with Carry On-ish impudence and a winking relish for bad taste. Cinemas

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

A cash-strapped actor called Nick Cage (played by none other) accepts a $1 m offer to grace the
birthday of a superfan. Soon things get crazy, in a grinningly meta action-comedy. Cinemas

Downton Abbey: A New Era

The cast of Julian Fellowes’s upstairs-downstairs drama return – and don’t assume that Maggie
Smith’s Dowager Countess is dead yet, whatever was implied last time. Cinemas