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AL FELOUS (THE MONEY) (PG-15) THE COURIER (15+ )(ACTION/THRILLER) MALEFICENT 2: MISTRESS OF EVIL (PG) OASIS JUFFAIR : 11.15 AM + 1.45 + 4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 + 11.45 PM CITY CENTRE: 11.00 AM + 1.15 + 3.30 + 5.45 + 8.00 + 10.15 PM CITY CENTRE: 12.00 + 5.30 + 11.00 PM OASIS JUFFAIR (VIP): 12.00 + 5.30 + 11.00 PM SEEF (II): 10.30 AM + 12.45 + 3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 PM + 12.00 MN ANGELINA JOLIE, TERESA MAHONEY, MICHELLE PFEIFFER CITY CENTRE: 10.30 AM + 11.30 AM + 1.00 + 2.00 + 3.30 + 4.30 + 6.00 + 7.00 + 8.30 + 9.30 + 11.00 PM + 12.00 MN + (12.30 MN + 1.00 AM THURS/FRI) OLGA KURYLENKO, GARY OLDMAN, AMIT SHAH CITY CENTRE (VIP I) : 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM THAMBI (PG-13)(TAMIL) SEEF (I): 11.00 AM + 12.00 + 1.30 + 2.30 + 4.00 + 5.00 + 6.30 + 7.30 + 9.00 + TRAUMA CENTRE (PG-15)(THRILLER) OASIS JUFFAIR : 12.00 + 5.30 + 11.00 PM 10.00 +11.30 PM + (12.30 MN THURS/FRI) CITY CENTRE: 10.30 AM + 3.00 + 7.30 + 12.00 MN SEEF (I): 2.00 + 11.15 PM SEEF (II): (1.00 AM THURS/FRI) SEEF (II): 10.30 AM + 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM AL HAMRA: 6.00 PM WADI AL SAIL: 10.30 AM + 11.00 AM + 1.00 + 1.30 + 3.30 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 6.30 + 8.30 + 9.00 +11.00 + 11.30 PM BRUCE WILLIS, NICKY WHELAN, STEVE GUTTENBERG KARTHI, JYOTHIKA, SATHYARAJ TAMER HOSNY, ZEINA, KHALID EL-SAWI IP MAN 4 (PG-15)(ACTION/DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY) HERO (PG-15)(TAMIL) CITY CENTRE: 12.45 + 5.15 + 9.45 PM SEEF (I): 8.00 PM SEEF (II): 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM SIVAKARTHIKEYAN, ARJUN, ABHAY DEOL, KALYANI PRIYADARSHAN DONNIE YEN, SCOTT ADKINS, KWOK-KWAN CHAN KETYOLANU ENTE MALAKHA (PG-15)(MALAYALAM) MIRACLE IN CELL NO.7 (PG-15)(FILIPINO/DRAMA) OASIS JUFFAIR : 2.45 + 8.15 PM OASIS JUFFAIR:3.15 + 9.00 PM ASIF ALI, VEENA NANDAKUMAR SEEF (II): 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM AGA MUHLACH, JOEL TORRE, JC SANTOS PRATI ROJU PANDAAGE (PG) (TELUGU) SEEF (I): 11.00 AM + 5.00 PM JUMANJI THE NEXT LEVEL (PG-15) RAASHI KHANNA, SATHYARAJ, SAI DHARAM TEJ OASIS JUFFAIR: 2.45 + 8.30 PM CITY CENTRE: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 + 12.00 MN + (12.30 MN THURS/FRI) DRIVING LICENCE (PG-15) CITY CENTRE (IMAX 2D) :11.30 AM + 5.15 + 11.00 PM OASIS JUFFAIR: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM CITY CENTRE (VIP II) : 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM SEEF (I): 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 + 12.00 MN SEEF (II): 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM AL HAMRA: 3.00 + 6.00 + 9.00 PM WADI AL SAIL: 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM PRITHVIRAJ SUKUMARAN, SURAJ VENJARANMOODU DWAYNE JOHNSON, JACK BLACK, KEVIN HART MY SANTA (PG-13)(MALAYALAM) STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (PG-13 OASIS JUFFAIR: 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM OASIS JUFFAIR: 11.45 AM + 5.30 + 11.15 PM SEEF (I): 2.00 + 8.15 PM OASIS JUFFAIR (VIP): 2.30 + 8.00 PM AL HAMRA: 6.00 PM CITY CENTRE: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM DILEEP, SIDDIQUE, SUNNY WAYNE CITY CENTRE (IMAX 2D) : 2.15 + 8.00 PM SEEF (II) : 12.45 + 6.00 + 11.15 PM VALIYAPERUNNAL (MALAYALAM) DAISY RIDLEY, MARK HAMILL, ADAM DRIVER OASIS JUFFAIR: 12.00 + 5.45 + 11.30 PM SEEF (I): 10.45 AM + 5.00 + 11.15 PM (AL HAMRA: 11.45 AM + (12.00 MN THRUS/FRI د (FROZEN 2 (PG)(ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY CITY CENTRE: 11.00 AM + 1.15 + 3.30 + 5.45 + 8.00 + 10.15 PM SHANE NIGAM, HIMIKA BOSE, JOJU GEORGE SEEF (II):10.30 AM + 3.45 + 9.00 PM SPIES IN DISGUISE (PG) KRISTEN BELL, IDINA MENZEL, JOSH GAD OASIS JUFFAIR (KIDS CINEMA): 1.00 + 3.15 + 5.30 + 7.45 PM ددد OASIS JUFFAIR (KIDS CINEMA): (3D) 10.45 AM + 10.00 PM 21 BRIDGES (PG-15)(CRIME/ACTION/THRILLER) 21 CITY CENTRE: 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 + 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM CITY CENTRE: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM CITY CENTRE:DUBBED IN ARABIC: 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + 6.45 + 9.00 + 11.15 PM CHADWICK BOSEMAN, SIENNA MILLER, STEPHAN JAMES CITY CENTRE (3D): 11.00 AM + 1.15 + 3.30 + 5.45 + 8.00 + 10.15 PM د (SEEF (II): 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 + 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM KNIVES OUT (PG-15)(CRIME/COMEDY/THRILLER SEEF (II):DUBBED IN ARABIC: 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM CITY CENTRE: 3.15 + 8.45 PM WADI AL SAIL: 11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 + 6.00 + 8.15 + 10.30 PM DANIEL CRAIG, CHRIS EVANS, ANA DE ARMAS WILL SMITH, TOM HOLLAND, KAREN GILLAN دددددد (JOKER (15+)(THRILLER/CRIME/DRAMA CITY CENTRE: 12.30 + 6.00 + 11.30 PM د (GOOD NEWWZ (15+)(HINDI/COMEDY/DRAMA) DABANGG 3 (PG-15)(HINDI/ACTION/COMEDY From Friday 27th OASIS JUFFAIR : 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM JOAQUIN PHOENIX, ZAZIE BEETZ, ROBERT DE NIRO OASIS JUFFAIR : 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM CITY CENTRE: 10.30 AM + 1.30 + 4.45 + 8.00 + 11.15 PM CITY CENTRE: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM SEEF (II): 10.30 AM + 1.45 + 5.00 + 8.15 + 11.30 PM LE MANS ‘66 (PG-13)(DRAMA/SPORT/BIOGRAPHY) SEEF (I): 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM WADI AL SAIL: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM CITY CENTRE: 2.30 + 8.00 PM WADI AL SAIL: 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM MATT DAMON, CHRISTIAN BALE, JON BERNTHAL AKSHAY KUMAR, KAREENA KAPOOR, DILJIT DOSANJH SALMAN KHAN, SONAKSHI SINHA, WARINA HUSSAIN

MOVIE REVIEW The Last Tree: tender tale of an uprooted childhood His transition into a muscly, Superb acting misguided youth, his war with • YInka, and his involvement with enriches Shola an older criminal link The Last Amoo’s story of a Tree to Barry Jenkins’s Moon- British-Nigerian boy DON’T MISS IT light. Like the 2016 Best Pic - exiled in London ture Oscar-winner, it disobeys the rules of social realism with its stylistic flourishes – Spike utting a radical spin on The story of a British-Ni- Lee-like closeups of Femi when a fish-out-of-water story, gerian boy growing up he’s stoned, red-lit evocations PThe Last Tree explores in rural Lincolnshire of urban hellishness – its bursts troubling aspects of the African and inner-city London is of majestic orchestral music in diaspora experience in an Eng- told with compassion in the Lincolnshire scenes, and land riddled with xenophobia Shola Amoo’s profoundly its concentrated subjectivity. A and black-on-black racism. Sho- scene in which Femi fantasises la Amoo’s semi-autobiographical moving drama kissing Tope after he rescues second feature is distanced from her from her persecutors throbs Brexit by its early 2000s time first and second acts – and to truthfully of teen yearning. The frame, but its young protago - embrace his African-ness. He Lagos sequence, which captures nist’s identity issues speak to the visits Mary and elicits from her Adewunmi himself interacting current moment. an apology for promising him with Nigerians, is rewardingly Sam Adewunmi in ‘The Last Tree’ The film begins with a sunlit he could stay with her forever spontaneous. idyll in the Lincolnshire coun- and his friends to live with his weed-smoking troublemak- gangster and drug dealer, Mace and hears out Yinka when she The Last Tree is an advance tryside. An 11-year-old British strict Yoruban birth mother Yin- er perplexed by his two black (Demmy Ladipo), who buys his tells him she thought she was on Amoo’s gentrification film Nigerian, Femi (Tai Golding) ka (Gbemisola Ikumelo) in her mates’ harassing of his wary services with the gift of a Mobile doing her best for him when she A Moving Image (2016) and an- runs around outdoors and gets flat on a decaying inner-London school crush Tope (Ruthxjia phone. Femi seems oblivious to fostered him out. Amoo is a little nounces him as an important “all over mud” with his three estate. Mocked for his overtly Bellenea), whose skin is dark- the fact that Mace is exploit - harsh on these well-meaning British director – one whose schoolmates – but for the colour African first name on his first er than theirs. Resenting Yinka ing and controlling him, but the women, though Femi reconciles work demands a multicultur- of his skin they could be Richmal day at his new school, he gets for removing him from Mary viewer is unsurprised when the with both of them. When he and al audience. It can’t be over- Crompton’s William Brown and into a fight with the boy who and disaffected from his school, gangster turns nasty . Yinka, growing closer, travel to stressed how much he owes to his Outlaws reborn. insulted him and is threatened despite his academic abilities What is Femi looking for? Lagos, a revelation about her in- his actors, especially Adewunmi Without warning, Femi is with immediate expulsion. and the efforts of a concerned Coming of age requires him dependent spirit and adherence (potentially a major discovery), plucked from this rural par - By the age of 16, Femi teacher who empathises with his to make peace with both his to the traditional Yoruba religion Golding, Ikumelo, and Bellenea. adise, his loving white foster (now broodingly played by plight, Femi self-destructively mothers, to find his father – the has enormous emotional and The suspicion in Bellenea’s eyes mother Mary (Denise Black), Sam Adewunmi) is an angry, becomes muscle for a local black structuring absence of the film’s spiritual consequences for Femi. speaks volumes.