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.
Five five-star films you must see this month
All in cinemas in February, all magnificent
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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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This tender German comedy is a moving, often hilarious portrait of an unusual father-daughter relationship
This vastly entertaining movie seems plucked from the Playboy-era universe of huge hairdos, lurid makeup and voracious female appetites
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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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