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Until recently, films with children as the subject were generally considered a risky proposition. Child-centered cinema consisted largely of animation, action or family stories. Children were thought too immature, unable to hold the screen, unreliable actors, either over-broad or lacking nuance.

Until recently, films with children as the subject were generally considered a risky proposition. Child-centered cinema consisted largely of animation, action or family stories. Children were thought too immature, unable to hold the screen, unreliable actors, either over-broad or lacking nuance.

This month’s picks include two of the best horror films of the year, two thrillers about online exploitation and one dark fairy tale about a monster named Alli.

Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated smash “The Worst Person in the World,” about a young...

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Chilling Norwegian film about children who develop superpowers

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BENEDICTION (12A)

Bored children with apparently supernatural powers soon go to the dark side in Eskil Vogt’s superbly cast psychological thriller

Siegfried Sassoon is rightly celebrated as one of the great First World War poets but it is often forgotten that he lived well into the modern age, eventually dying in 1967 at the age of 80.