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Cinema

Current highlights from Barcelona's English-language cinema scene

Boy Erased
4 out of 5 stars

Gay conversion therapy gets the indictment it deserves, from an insightful script based on a you-are-there tell-all, and an outstanding cast

Shazam!

Shazam!

4 out of 5 stars

Finally, a DC superhero movie that doesn’t take itself (at all) seriously

Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary

3 out of 5 stars

This satisfyingly spooky film finds so-far unmined depth in Stephen King’s undead pet yarn

Dumbo

Dumbo

3 out of 5 stars

Tim Burton’s live-action take on the animation classic veers from bland to bonkers and back again

Assassination Nation

Assassination Nation

3 out of 5 stars

Gonzo feminist shocks meets male-gaze fantasy. Feminism comes out on top – just.

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Stan & Ollie

Stan & Ollie

4 out of 5 stars

This biopic about the classic comedy double act Laurel and Hardy is a delight

Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy

4 out of 5 stars

An emotional drug-addiction drama cements Timothée Chalamet as the real deal

Us

Us

3 out of 5 stars

Jordan Peele is back with more terror – but slightly less edge

Notes on Blindness

Notes on Blindness

4 out of 5 stars

This moving doc is built on audiotapes made by an academic as his eyesight failed

Original-language cinemas

Verdi HD

Verdi HD

The five-screen Verdi and Verdi Park, its four-screen annexe on the next street, have transformed this corner of Gràcia with a diverse programme of...

Cinemes Maldà

Cinemes Maldà

In its latest incarnation, the well-loved Cinema Maldà is now showing indie and arthouse films. Cinema in original version with subtitles.

Yelmo Cines Icaria

Yelmo Cines Icaria

This vast multiplex has all the atmosphere of the near-empty mall that surrounds it. But what it lacks in charm, it makes up for in choice, with 15 screens...

Phenomena

Phenomena

The Phenomena cinema, which holds 415 film fans and has one of the biggest screens in all of Catalonia, boasts a latest-generation 4k projector, as well as 35...

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Multicines Balmes

Multicines Balmes

This cinema has 12 screens (two in 3-D) and specialises in commercial films in their original language with subtitles.

Verdi Park HD

Verdi Park HD

The five-screen Verdi and Verdi Park, its four-screen annexe on the next street, have transformed this corner of Gràcia with a diverse programme of...

Cinemes Texas

Cinemes Texas

This cinema in Gràcia has four screens and shows a variety of films. The big draw for the locals is the subtitles are in Catalan. The big draw for everyone...

Cinemes Méliès

Cinemes Méliès

This small, two-screen cinema is the nearest that Barcelona comes to an arthouse theatre, with an idiosyncratic roster of accessible classics alongside more...

Our favourites

On The Basis Of Sex

On The Basis Of Sex

4 out of 5 stars

Thinkers debate with passion in Mimi Leder’s intellectual ‘On the Basis of Sex’...

Beast

Beast

4 out of 5 stars

Immaculately composed yet skittish, edgy and surprising, a chill emanates from this...

Green Book

Green Book

4 out of 5 stars

Call this actors’ duet sentimental and simplistic at your own peril...