In the penultimate News & Reviews of this year Alex brings you a bumper crop of new releases. 

From Netflix we have documentaries 'Procession', 'A Cop Movie' and directorial debuts in Oscar hopefuls 'tick, tick...BOOM!' and 'Passing', alongside this we have festive Aardman stop motion with 'Robin Robin'.

Elsewhere there's powerful drama 'Rose Plays Julie', satirical thriller 'The Beta Test', mother and child horror 'Son' and MCU entertainment by way of 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'.