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Bird (out Feb 20) is a British drama centred on an impoverished, free-spirited 12-year-old girl who befriends a young man looking for his birth parents. It's a curiously odd story from writer-director Andrea Arnold but, for the same reason, it holds your attention. Good performances all round. Grade: B+.