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• 892 (2022)

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  The filmmakers are so wrapped up in the importance of the social issues, that they forget to come up with anything to say about them.

  When Brian Brown-Easley’s disability check fails to materialise from Veterans Affairs, he finds himself on the brink of homelessness and breaking his daughter’s heart. With no other options, he walks into a Wells Fargo Bank and says, "I've got a bomb".
• 8mm (1999)

  Review preview for 8mm

  The plot produces one of those surprise twists that reinforces its decline into gratuitous cliché.

  Nic Cage is a PI, hired to find out whether a 'snuff film' is genuine.
• 8 Bar - The Evolution of Grime (2021)

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  8 Bar makes light work of sketching the conditions that shaped the music, betraying a canny understanding of the music industry’s politics, as well as the changing shape of music sales in the 00s.

  Documentary tracking the history of Grime music.
• 8 Found Dead (2022)

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  It’s a cute idea but a tricky one to pull off.

  Two couples go on a weekend getaway in the middle of the desert, only to discover that their Airbnb is already occupied. It's a long and bloody night told from four points-of-view.
• 8 Mile (2002)

  Review preview for 8 Mile

  Produced and directed by middle-class white men, the movie crawls through sewage to appear genuine.

  Eminem plays a budding white trash rapper in a black ghetto of Detroit
• 8 Women (2001)

  Review preview for 8 Women

  Ozon's quirky French murder mystery-cum-comedy-cum-musical is a brilliant pastiche on so many genres, it has no right to be as entertaining as it is, or as gripping.

  Eight women, one body and a house full of lies.
• 9 (2009)

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  Ideas of fascism, loss of the soul and post-apocalyptic existence, all ripe for exploration, are given a body swerve in favour of muddled new-age nonsense.

  The post-apocalypse world is back... and this time its animated.
• LA 92 (2017)

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  We are quickly immersed in the action.

  Portrait of the LA riots which took place after the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted.
• 93Queen (2018)

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  It's rough at the edges, but it still makes for compelling viewing because the charged nature of the situation an the force of will thereby required to get it off the ground.

  A documentary following a group of Hasidic women who are determined to set up the first all-female ambulance corps in New York City.
• 95 And 6 To Go (2016)

  Review preview for 95 And 6 To Go

  Over the course of this accidental film, poignantly named by its subject as he contemplates sport and mortality, generational differences in attitude and expectation emerge.

  In this affectionate portrait, the filmmaker finds an unlikely creative collaborator in her 90-year-old grandfather.
• 976-Evil II (1991)

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  Assa is great in the role of Grubeck, clearly enjoying himself and making for entertaining viewing despite the clunky script and overall shoddiness of the production.

  A teacher imprisoned for murder uses astral projection to kill off his enemies and stalk his former assistant.
• 9999 (2014)

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  Vermeulen has chosen to make a quiet film that allows us to spend time with the men themselves and appreciate what they're going through.

  A documentary following five different inmates in Merksplas’ Prison who are held indefinitely because they are mentally ill.
• 99 Homes (2014)

  Review preview for 99 Homes

  The narrative is paced with the urgency of a thriller.

  A man struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real-estate broker who's the source of his frustration.
• The 99 Unbound (2011)

  Review preview for The 99 Unbound

  The 99 Unbound might just about cut the mustard after school on CBeebies but its low budget and rudimentary design are cinematically embarrassing.

  An animated adaptation of Naif Al-Mutawa's comic strip 'The 99', this is an action packed adventure story, full of intrigue, conflict and diversity.
• 9th Company (2005)

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  The acting has an energy and conviction that demands respect.

  Raw Russian recruits join an elite brigade in the mountains of Afghanistan.
• 9to5: The Story Of A Movement (2020)

  Review preview for 9to5: The Story Of A Movement

  Breezy and informative

  Story of a Seventies movement that saw gender equality campaigning and workers' rights activism intersect.
• 9 Month Stretch (2013)

  Review preview for 9 Month Stretch

  You can do nothing but sit in a haze of expectation, waiting for the fun to ferment, which it does

  The lady judge is guilty of sexual discrepancy but what has the most hated criminal in France got to do with it?
• 9 Songs (2004)

  Review preview for 9 Songs

  Not surprisingly, for a movie dripping in bodily fluids, it's about as sexy as cold rice pudding.

  Two people meet at a gig and have lots of sex, while Michael Winterbottom watches.