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Four new films to see this week: Materialists, Together, Night Always Comes and Oslo Stories: Love

Together ★★★★☆ Directed by Michael Shanks. Starring Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herrimam. 16 cert, gen release, 102 min Franco and Brie, a long-term couple, find themselves melding creepily together after relocating to the country. Never underestimate the impact of the profoundly unpleasant in horror cinema. There is a lot of that in this stomach-churning debut from Michael Shanks: hair is swallowed; genitals are stretched; most distressingly for many viewers, animals are shown in states of violent distress (computer-generated, of course). Some may view this as a bit cheap, but it takes real invention to make hardened critics squirm as they were in the press screening for Together. This is a masterclass in eugh. Full review DC Materialists ★★★★☆ Directed by Celine Song. Starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal, Zoë Winters, Martin Ireland, Dasha Nekrasova, Emmy Wheeler. 15A cert, gen release, 117 min Johnson stars as a matchmaker plying her trade amid the moneybags of New York City. Attending a wedding, she bumps into a hugely wealthy financier in the currently unavoidable form of Pedro Pescal and decides to date him rather than grab him as a client. But Chris Evans, as her less-well-off ex-boyfriend, is waiting in the wings. Song's gorgeous follow-up to Past Lives presents itself as a romcom, but, short on laughs, it works better as a tart analysis of how money poisons relationships. None of that gets in the way of a delightfully romantic conclusion. Full review DC READ MORE Night Always Comes ★★☆☆☆ Directed by Benjamin Caron. Starring Vanessa Kirby, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zack Gottsagen, Stephen James, Randall Park, Julia Fox, Michael Kelly, Eli Roth. No cert, Netflix, 108 min Kirby, who worked far too hard to save the unnecessarily glum Fantastic Four: First Steps, is yet again overexerting herself in an unworthy vehicle. Adapted from Willy Vlautin's novel, Night Always Comes opens with a lazy lesson in the failings of trickle-down economics delivered as incidental radio broadcasts on homelessness and grocery bills. Unhappily, Night Always Comes eschews its real-world dilemma as it swerves into low-life criminality. The heroine juggles prostitution, bartending and cocaine dealing as she encounters safe-crackers, low-lives and Eli Roth's sleazy club owner. Even Kirby can't make the theme-park poverty feel authentic. Full review TB Oslo Stories: Love ★★★★☆ Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud. Starring Andrea Braein Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Thomas Gullestad, Lars Jacob Holm, Marte Engebrigtsen. No cert, limited release, 120 min The second instalment in this disarming Norwegian movie trilogy follows two friends, practical urologist Marianne (Hovig) and big-hearted nurse Tor (Jacobsen), as they enter meaningful, if unlikely to last, relationships. Marianne is nudged toward Ole (Gullestad), a divorced father of two, by her matchmaking chum Heidi (Engebrigtsen). Tor, who spends nights riding the ferry between Oslo and Nesodden, meets Bjorn (Holm), a therapist he later treats at the hospital. The romantic destinies remain open-ended, and the film leaves space for the audience to decide what their various connections mean. Subtle. Intelligent. Full review TB