The Boxing Day movies are upon us – but which are worth your time?

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The Boxing Day movies are upon us – but which are worth your time?
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From big blockbuster to local, foreign and sometimes obscure films that deserve the spotlight - which movies are worth the cost of a ticket?🍿

"I find it difficult to understand the wave of outrage provoked by the film now that so many critics have joined the chorus of vituperation. While the aesthetic marriage of human and feline does require a little getting used to, it doesn't take long.

"In other matters, Loach's craft is similarly invisible, but there's no lack of expertise in his balancing of comic and dramatic vignettes, his way of shifting between the perspectives of the various family members and his ability to evoke the daily grind of an awful job without letting the rhythms slacken."Lumir, played by Juliette Binoche, decamped some years earlier to America to become a scriptwriter.

"The film is as odd as it sounds – not in a bad way, but with some caveats. Kore-eda makes it wryly funny, primarily by having Deneuve play to our expectations of how a grande-dame of the French cinema might behave, and by suggesting it is all autobiographical . More imperious than a queen, Fabienne is also a selfish cow with no maternal instincts. She lies constantly, uses people as servants, dismisses all rivals. She is beloved only of those who do not know her.

"It's quite hard to mistake Waititi's seriousness of purpose. The film gets darker as it goes, becoming more confronting and nerve-wracking. Indeed, Waititi's control of the changing mood is one of the picture's great assets.

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