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Resident Evil

Zach Cregger starts again with one frightened man, one delivery and one long night. For an hour it is tight, funny and horrible; then it gets bigger and gets worse. Worth your evening if this is your genre.

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It was the flop that nearly sank a studio, the film George Lucas would rather you forgot, the punchline of a thousand jokes about the eighties. It is also a strange, funny, entirely sincere piece of work that has outlived every film that beat it that summer. The first in an occasional series about films the notices got wrong.

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Films where the soundtrack is the real star

Some films you remember with your ears. A guide to the ones where the music is not accompanying the picture but carrying it, from Bernard Herrmann's strings to a Vangelis synth to a mixtape a director spent his budget on.

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The best of Netflix, as we write

The shelf is enormous and most of it is not worth your evening. Here is what is, drawn from our reviews of what the service is showing this month. Catalogues differ by country; every title's page shows yours.

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Twenty-seven years after a mob boss first sat down in a psychiatrist's waiting room, nothing on television has caught it. A guide for those who never got round to it, and for those who did and want to go back.