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Every film that's coming out between now and spring 2013

Get your diaries out. We’ve scoured the film release schedules to bring you a month-by-month calendar of every new movie coming to cinemas until the middle of next year. Release dates? Actors? Directors? What to expect? Find out here

July film highlights

The Amazing Spider-Man
Rating: 4/5
It’s web 2.0. Five years since Sam Raimi hung up his ‘I Love NY’ cap and Tobey Maguire ditched the spandex, it’s the turn of director Marc Webb...
The Dark Knight Rises

Director Christopher Nolan and his screenwriting brother Jonathan close the circle on their globe-conquering series of Batman movies.
God Bless America

Bobcat Goldthwait fixes his eyes on the big prize with this excoriating satirical sideswipe at American culture in the twenty-first century.

Tuesday July 3

The Amazing Spider-Man
Rating: 4/5
It’s web 2.0. Five years since Sam Raimi hung up his ‘I Love NY’ cap and Tobey Maguire ditc...

Wednesday July 4

God Bless America
Rating: 4/5
‘Rant cinema’ has never caught on – perhaps because the time-consuming, collaborative nature of filmmaking encourages reflection and compromise....
Strawberry Fields
Rating: 3/5
A strawberry farm is the down-and-dirty setting for some serious sister issues in this low-budget British film. A young woman (Anna Madeley) calling herself Tammy...

Thursday July 5

Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D
Rating: 4/5
Everyone loves a story about a good girl gone bad – a child of God falling prey to sex, drugs a...

Friday July 6

7 Days in Havana
Rating: 2/5
You get the feeling that the global big-hitters directing these written-on-a-napkin short films a...
The Hunter
Rating: 3/5
The last Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936, but that hasn’t stopped ecologists and mys...
Martina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Rating: 4/5
This HBO doc draws us into the world of Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic as she prepar...
Ping Pong
Rating: 3/5
Forget sudoku, the pensioners in this chirpy doc know a more fun way of keeping a grip on their m...
The Players
Rating: 3/5
When a series of raunchy posters for Jean Dujardin’s new film appeared in February, moral guard...
Total Recall
Rating: 4/5
Re-released in advance of a remake starring Colin Farrell, Paul Verhoeven’s absurdist, ultravio...
The Women on the Sixth Floor
Rating: 2/5
This blinkered period French comedy is so middle-of-the-road it may as well have white lines pain...
You've Been Trumped
Rating: 3/5
For tips on the dark arts of empire-building, would-be tycoons should study this doc, in which Do...

Friday July 13

Chariots of Fire
Rating: 2/5
Gosh, aren't the British remarkable? They win Olympic races despite running in slow motion, they ...
Comes a Bright Day
Rating: 2/5
This is the feature debut of British writer and director Simon Aboud (the brother-in-law of Stell...
Detachment
Rating: 3/5
Films about high school teachers generally fall into one of two categories – will it be slushy,...
The Giants
Rating: 2/5
Fans of Bouli Lanners's previous films or indeed of his performances, most memorably for Gusta...
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Rating: 3/5
Blue Sky Studios’s series of family-friendly cartoons about the adventures of three prehistoric...
Magic Mike
Rating: 4/5
After announcing his imminent retirement from directing, Steven Soderbergh has never been more pr...
Nostalgia for the Light
Rating: 5/5
A rather wonderful essay film from the maker of 'Battle of Chile', whose diverse concerns – ast...
Petit Nicholas

This Franco-Belgian film is a live-action adaptation of a well-known series of French comic books...
The Prey
Rating: 2/5
There have been several recent Hollywood-style French thrillers about injustice, incarceration an...
Salute
Rating: 3/5
It’s possibly the most controversial moment in Olympic history, and it has become an iconic ima...
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Rating: 2/5
This is the directorial debut of American screenwriter Lorene Scafaria, whose previous scripts in...
The Soul of Files
Rating: 1/5
This is the feature debut of Spanish writer-director Jonathan Cenzual Burley and played to a warm...
Tortoise In Love
Rating: 3/5
It takes a village to raise a child, as the African proverb goes. The villagers of Kingston Bagpu...

Friday July 20

The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best

Ryan O’Nan (on no account to be mistaken for Ryan O’Neal) is clearly going for the authentic ...
The Dark Knight Rises

Director Christopher Nolan and his screenwriting brother Jonathan close the circle on their globe...
I Am Bruce Lee

The film industry's leading martial artists, cohreographers and stunt people – including Mickey...
In Your Hands

Kristin Scott Thomas says that's she offered better French speaking roles than English. This kidn...
Lola Versus

This is the second feature film from Daryl Wein, who previously made 'Breaking Upwards' (2009) an...
Revenge Of The Electric Car

Director Chris Paine proves the electric car still has mileage left in this compelling follow-up ...
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap

Rapper-actor-reality TV star Ice T adds another hyphen to his name with his directorial debut, a ...
Swandown

British experimental filmmaker Andrew Kötting goes into the journeying business with the writer ...

Friday July 27

Dr Seuss' The Lorax

Dr Seuss’ environmental fable gets a suitably whimsical-looking treatment in this animation fro...
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

You could probably list on the back of napkin the restaurants that are famous enough to have a fi...
Woman in a Dressing Gown

Proof that the kitchen sink wasn't invented in the 1960s. Ted Willis' domestic drama was original...
Searching for Sugar Man

Documentaries about undiscovered musical heroes are all the rage these days, from 'Anvil!' to 'Be...