Adam Driver in Silence
Photograph: Transmission FilmsAdam Driver in Silence
Photograph: Transmission Films

Five five-star films you must see this month

All in cinemas in February, all magnificent

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You can tell it's Academy Awards season when the cinemas are crowded with high quality flicks, all hoping to capitalise on the free publicity. These five movies are Oscar hopefuls (with one deliriously weird exception) and all of them rate the maximum five stars from Time Out critics. From religious epics to searing coming-of-age dramas to 1960s spoofs, these are the ones to tick off your list. 

  • Film
  • Drama
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Manchester by the Sea
Manchester by the Sea
Actor Casey Affleck joins the ranks of giants in a tremendously moving portrait of grief from American writer-director Kenneth Lonergan
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  • Film
  • Comedy
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
The Love Witch
The Love Witch
This vastly entertaining movie seems plucked from the Playboy-era universe of huge hairdos, lurid makeup and voracious female appetites
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  • Film
  • Drama
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Silence
Silence
Scorsese's epic of faith under fire set in 17th-century Japan ranks among the greatest achievements of spiritually minded cinema
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