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Ice-cold thriller with a downhome feel from the Coen brothers

Archly satirical tale of disenchanted teenage slacker

46,000 surf fans gather in the grounds of a stately pile and have fun, fun, fun

Schrader returns with lusty temptations of small-screen chancer

Infantile, boorish, dangerous, hilarious, unmissable

More brilliantly bilious dispatches from This England

More American recordings with Rick Rubin from everyone's favourite cowboy

Prolific US songwriter rustles up an acoustic storm

Much-imitated life-swapping comedy from '83, back when John Landis was a hot name. Street chancer Eddie Murphy and stockbroker Dan Aykroyd switch places after a nature-versus-nurture debate, with Jamie Lee Curtis as Aykroyd's love interest. Doesn't aim to be anything other than broadly funny, and so largely succeeds, though it hasn't aged too cleverly.

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