Films
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Billie Piper in Rare Beasts
RARE BEASTS
OPENS MAY 21
Billie Piper makes her directing debut and stars in an anti-romcom of full-tilt abrasiveness, alongside Kerry Fox and David Thewlis.
STATE FUNERAL
OPENS MAY 21
Documentarist Sergei Loznitsa trawls the archives for this eyeopening account of how the USSR mourned Stalin with a continentwide spectacle of officially approved grief.
CRUELLA
OPENS MAY 28
Not that Disney’s greatest villain exactly demanded a prequel but if anyone can carry it off, it’s Emma Stone, snarling grandly in an evocation of the fur-loving fiend’s early posh-punk days.
Ben Whishaw in Surge
SURGE
OPENS MAY 28
Ben Whishaw gets to pull out all the stops in this high-intensity British drama about an airport security official who goes on a meltdown spree.
A QUIET PLACE PART II
OPENS JUNE 4
Long-delayed sequel to John Krasinski’s high-concept sci-fi shush-fest, with Cillian Murphy joining Emily Blunt to outwit the aliens with the best-tuned ears in the universe.
IT MUST BE HEAVEN
OPENS JUNE 18
Actor-director Elia Suleiman stars in the latest of his deadpan comedies in which he plays a Palestinian everyman grappling with the complexities of Middle East politics, this time taking his Keatonesque stone face around the world.
WILL GRUNDY