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Jessie Buckley plays Anna, a new trainer at the Love Institute, where couples are tested to find out whether they are really in love, in Christos Nikou’s satisfyingly strange romcom.

Christos Nikou’s low-key “Fingernails” delves into matters of the heart through science, or at least the science of the nebulous future where it takes place. In a world in which

Thought featuring a Test that quantifies your love, this sci-fi romance is cold and rote - yet with moments of warmth. Our Fingernails review:

In Fingernails, Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed play colleagues working at a Love Institute where couples must undergo a painful compatibility test. We swipe right with its Greek director, Christos Nikou.

Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White are excellent in an otherwise underwhelming sci-fi romance.

Lauren Cuthbertson and Marcelino Sambé reprise their roles to glorious effect in Cathy Marston’s inspired paean to Jacqueline du Pré, while an adaptation of Sam Steiner’s hit play Lemons… feels squeezed

Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy Allen White co-star in the new film by Greek Weird Wave leading light Christos Nikou, making his English-language debut.

A play about the limits of language ought to easily translate into a ballet. Words naturally count for less and speech is no longer the primary means of communicating emotions. But does Sam Steiner’s indie darling Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons make the leap into dance?

Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed are hard to buy as thwarted lovers, though that’s mostly the fault of the half-baked premise of ‘Fingernails.’

★★★☆☆Here is an acting challenge for Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman as they hold a West End stage together for just shy of 90 minutes. They’re playing youngish