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10 of the best films to watch this February

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01.02.2025

From Captain America: Brave New World to Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, these are the films to stream and watch at the cinema this month.

There are plenty of films about The Beatles, but Becoming Led Zeppelin is the first ever authorised documentary about the band that took over their mantle as one of the world's biggest and most influential rock groups. An intimate account of the foursome's pre-Zep careers and their early years together, the film is constructed from jovial interviews with the three surviving members, singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones, while a 1971 interview with John Bonham provides the late drummer's perspective. "It's the personal confidences that stand out" in this "fascinating" film, says Jonathan Romney in Uncut. "A rich vein of anecdotes is found in Page and Jones's busy history as session players, with Jones particularly emerging as an affable raconteur with a juicy portfolio of anecdotes." James Bond trivia alert: as jobbing musicians, both Page and Jones were in Abbey Road Studios when Shirley Bassey recorded the theme song for Goldfinger.

Released on 5 February in the UK and Ireland, and on 7 February in the US, Canada, Australian, Spain and Sweden

Armand is a provocative and weirdly comic Norwegian drama written and directed by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of two Scandinavian film legends, Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann. Renate Reinsve, the star of The Worst Person in the World, plays a famous actress who is summoned to her six-year-old son's school after he has been accused of sexually assaulting a classmate. Ushered into a room with the school's senior teachers and the alleged victim's parents, she is subjected to "one of the most harrowing PT meetings ever witnessed", says Jo-Ann Titmarsh in HeyUGuys. And as secret connections and shady agendas emerge, "there is plenty of violence lurking beneath the surface of this middle-class tale". The winner of the prize for best first feature film at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Armand is "troubling, entertaining and at times confounding".

Released on 7 February in the US, on 21 February in Spain, and on 28 February in Turkey

I'm Still Here is already one of the stand-out successes of this year's awards season, having been nominated for the best picture, best international feature, and best actress Oscars. A Brazilian political thriller directed by Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries), it tells the true story of Rubens and Eunice Paiva and their children. In 1971, they are living happily by the beach in Rio de Janeiro, but Rubens (Selton Mello), a former congressman, has been campaigning against the military dictatorship. When he is removed from his house by a team of policemen, it is up to his wife (the Oscar-nominated Fernanda Torres) to ask where he has been taken – and to keep asking, even when all hope seems lost. A longstanding family friend of the Paivas, Salles has made a "deeply poignant" drama, says Jessica Kiang in Variety, and his "deeply invested film-making is remarkable in its grace and naturalism".

Released on 14 February in the US, and on 21 February in the UK, Ireland and Spain

The classic Looney Tunes characters have featured in some of the greatest animated short films ever made, but they haven't been in any feature-length cartoons: instead, they've popped up in such animated/ live-action hybrids as Space Jam and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. But now, at last, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig star in their own 91-minute animation, a full nine decades after the characters made their debuts. The idea is that Daffy and Porky (both voiced by Eric Bauza) get a job in a bubblegum factory where they uncover an alien plot to take over the world. "It's not consistently hilarious but it is........

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