Date Night Picks

Leo Woodall plays a gifted piano tuner whose delicate ear for locks leads him from keyboards to cracked safes, in a stylish crime drama that also brings Dustin Hoffman and Jean Reno into the frame. It's the elegant, slow-burn kind of thriller — tense but never brutal — that's a pleasure to unravel side by side. Critics are firmly on board at 94%.

Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson anchor this tender drama about a woman who, after losing her father, is pulled back toward the beauty of being alive by an unlikely bond with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. It's aching and hopeful in equal measure — a film to hold hands through, and one critics adore at 82%. A gentle, resonant close to a night out.