Friday new releases: 19 April 2024

Origin, Challengers, Abigail and Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story are all in cinemas

Apr 19, 2024

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Four stills from the films reviewed in the column: Origin, Abigail, Challengers, Mad About the Boy

Greetings new subscribers. Friday is new releases day where I try and cover as many of this week’s new motion pictures as I can, whether in cinemas or streaming. Today it just so happens that they are all theatrical.

Still from Ava DuVernay's 2023 feature film Origin

The most important new film of the week is also the hardest to see. Ava DuVernay’s rigorous and ambitious Origin has divided critics since …

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