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Soundtracks · Explainer · 4 min Three heroes, three voices: how Morricone scored The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Morricone and Leone worked out the main themes of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly before the cameras rolled, and the score reads like a… (3 props) 4′min read Home Cinema · Explainer · 3 min Film night on your TV: which picture settings to switch off Your TV ships tuned to dazzle a shop floor, not to show a film. Five settings do most of the damage: motion smoothing, sharpening, noise… 3′min read Animation · Review · 4 min Wildwood Laika's biggest swing yet: a stop-motion fantasy about a girl who follows her kidnapped baby brother into a forest not on any map. Critics… 4out of 5 Series · Review · 3 min Carrie Mike Flanagan's Carrie moves Stephen King's first novel into the age of social media and gives it eight hours. Critics mostly praise the… 3.5out of 5 New Releases · Review · 4 min Primetime Robert Pattinson plays To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenheim's first narrative feature, and the critics are split down… 3.5out of 5 Streaming · Review · 3 min Disclosure Day A well-made, well-acted alien thriller that critics split over: strong on chase tension and a standout Emily Blunt, short on the awe of… 3.5out of 5 Documentary · Review · 3 min Lorne Lorne is a polished, quick portrait of the man behind Saturday Night Live, and it is far too polite. Critics enjoy the interviews and the… 3out of 5 Restorations · Review · 4 min The Others, restored The Others is still one of the best of the modern ghost stories, and the new 4K restoration is a good excuse to see its candlelit gloom at… 4out of 5 Home Cinema · Explainer · 4 min Soundbar numbers decoded: what 2.0, 3.1.2 and 5.1.2 really mean A soundbar's numbers are a seating plan for the sound. 2.0 is left and right; 3.1.2 adds a real centre for dialogue, a subwoofer and two… (3 props) 4′min read Streaming · Review · 3 min Backrooms A smart, properly creepy debut that gets nearly everything right about empty space: the production design, the sound and two committed lead… 3.5out of 5 New Releases · Review · 4 min Digger A handsome, loud, deeply divisive climate satire. Tom Cruise commits completely as an oil tycoon, and the large-format images are not in… 3out of 5 Streaming · Review · 3 min Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma A slasher about the people who love slashers, and a rare one that critics almost universally find wise, funny and moving. Jane Schoenbrun's… 4.5out of 5