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#MayMovies 50) Notting Hill (1999) Movie star Julia Roberts falls for bookshop owner Hugh Grant 8/10

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#MayMovies 49) Karate Kid Legends (2025) Ralph Macchio & Jackie Chan team up to teach a hybrid of Karate and Kung Fu. Enjoyably nostalgic martial arts drama 7/10

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#MayMovies 48) Demons of the Mind (1972) Lesser seen Hammer Horror with an impressive cast headed by Robert Hardy 6/10

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#MayMovies 47) Holy Motors (2012) A man is chauffeured around Paris adopting various disguises. A very marmite film, it completely baffled me but it did look nice 5/10

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#MayMovies 46) Dragon Blade (2015) Enjoyable historical romp with Chinese Warrior Jackie Chan helping John Cusack’s band of deserters stand up to Roman Tyrant Adrian Brody 7/10

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#MayMovies 45) Fountain of Youth (2025) Guy Ritchie directs a surprisingly bland and tepid adventure movie 4/10

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#Maymovies 44) The Ritual (2025) Al Pacino and Dan Stevens lead the cast in an exorcism drama that is neither scary nor particularly dramatic 4/10

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#MayMovies 43.5) The bones (2021) chilling black and white silent short in which a creepy puppet resurrects two of Chile’s controversial leaders 8/10

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#MayMovies 42) New York, New York (1977) Martin Scorsese directs Robert De Niro & Liza Minnelli in an uneven but engaging romantic musical drama 6/10

#MayMovies 41) Operation Stogie (1959) Two soldiers are set a seemingly impossible task indeed to pass officer training. Not all of it has aged well but large parts of this remain entertaining 6/10

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#MayMovies 40) Another Simple Favor (2025) Increasingly outrageous sequel stretches credibility at times but the chemistry between Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively keeps it going 7/10

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#MayMovies 39.5) Shoulder Arms (1918) Charles Chaplin directs and stars in this short as a private in the trenches of WW1 who becomes a hero when sent behind enemy lines disguised as a tree 8/10

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#MayMovies 39) Lilo & Stitch (2025) Livde action remake of the space alien in Hawaii Disney film. Enchanting performances from Maia Kealoha & Sydney Agudong help sell the story. 7/10

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#MayMovies 38) A Simple Favor (2018) Clever and witty murder mystery thriller with plenty of twists 8/10

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#MayMovies 37) Vengeance most Fowl (2025)
Feathers McGraw seeks revenge on Wallace and Gromit 9/10

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#MayMovies 36.5) A Close Shave (1995) Wallace and Grommit short that introduced Shaun the Sheep 9/10

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#MayMovies 36) Bluebeard (1972) Richard Burton is the wife murderer of folklore in an adaptation that updates events to 1930s Austria

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#MayMovies 35) Wuthering Heights (2011) Andrea Arnold directs a suitably moody and windswept adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic novel 7/10

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#MayMovies 34) Girl in the Basement (2021)
Stefanie Scott plays a teenage girl imprisoned by her father in an unpleasantly gritty Lifetime drama 5/10

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#MayMovies 33) Gagarine (2020) charming French coming of age story about a boy trying to save his home from demolition 6/10

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#MayMovies 32) Blade II (2002) Blade had to work with the vampire council to take down an even bigger threat 6/10

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#MayMovies 31) Mission: impossible- The Final Reckoning (2025) Picking up where Dead Reckoning left off TFR is an action packed adventure with some terrific set pieces including a very tense vignette set aboard the downed sub. A worthy wrap up to the series 8/10

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#MayMovies 30) Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning part one (2023) Quick rewatch ahead of the sequel. The car chase through Italy remains a highlight of a breathless action packed ride 9/10

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#MayMovies 29) The boys in the Boat (2023) George Clooney directs a solid but unremarkable film about the American rowing team who pol part in the 1936 Olympics 6/10

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#MayMovies 28) Ice Cold in Alex (1958) John Mills drives an ambulance across the desert in one of the best war films of its era, which in turn spawned the best Carlsberg advert of all time 10/10

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#MayMovies 27) Nadaaniyan (2025) A high school student hired the new boy in town to be her boyfriend. Bollywood attempts to make a Hollywood style teen romcom but doesn’t quite get the formula right. 4/10

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#MayMovies 26) Woman who came back (1945) following a bus crash a woman fears she has been cursed by a witch 6/10

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#MayMovies 25) My Two Husbands (2024) a young woman has suspicions about her fathers new wife 4/10

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#MayMovies 24) Balloon (2018) Gripping true story following two East German families who plan to escape over the border by hot air balloon 8/10

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#MayMovies 23) How to please a Woman (2022) Australian comedy starring Sally Phillips as a woman who starts a business of male domestics which quickly begins supplying additional services