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  • Cinderella (1950)
    Review preview for Cinderella

    It's not all action, and while there's plenty to keep the kids entertained, there are also nice poetic touches of animated artistry that will appeal more to adults.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Animated version of Charles Perrault's rags to riches story.
  • Cinderella (2015)
    Review preview for Cinderella

    The reason Branagh's adaptation of the Charles Perrault tale is a success, is that it sticks fully to the formula of the story and doesn't try to do anything irritatingly postmodern with it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Live-action retelling of the classic fairy tale.
  • A Cinderella Story (2004)
    Review preview for A Cinderella Story

    Charles Perrault must be spinning in his grave.

    Amber Wilkinson · 1 out of 5
    Updated high school makeover of the classic fairytale.
  • Cinemania (2002)
    Review preview for Cinemania

    Succeeds in making the familiar strange and the unfamiliar everyday.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5
    There, but for the grace of God, go Scorsese, Tarantino, Truffaut and Godard in this documentary about seriously obsessive New York cinephiles.
  • The Cinema Hold Up (2011)
    Review preview for The Cinema Hold Up

    Concheiro's pacing - although perhaps a little too slow in places - allows us to become steeped in the teens' disenfranchisement to the point where we can understand how they come to view a robbery as a good idea.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Four childhood pals decide to rob a cinema.
  • The Cinema Travellers (2016)
    Review preview for The Cinema Travellers

    Though it focuses on one company, this film encapsulates a struggle faced by travelling cinemas across India and in other parts of the world.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary about travelling cinemas in India.
  • The Circle (2000)
    Review preview for The Circle

    Despite, or because of, the appalling nature of these women's lives, the film has a raw edge.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Women from prison try to stay clean and out of trouble in a country where they are not respected.
  • The Circle (2015)
    Review preview for The Circle

    The mysteries left unresolved after the near two and a half hours are more puzzling than compelling.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Six teenagers discover they have acquired supernatural powers as part of an ancient prophecy to fight evil.
  • Circus (1999)
    Review preview for Circus

    To call this Brit flick too clever by half, flatters it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    The con is on... but it's too clever by half.
  • Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
    Review preview for Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

    Scruffy and scarred and only inadvertently dashing, Crepsley has none of the glamour generally associated with vampires today, though John C. Reilly has no difficulty in making him compelling.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A teenager gets in over his head with vampire politics and finds temporary refuge with a freak show.
  • Citadel (2012)
    Review preview for Citadel

    Anchored by a sincerely anguished turn from talented young Welsh star Aneurin Barnard.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    A bereaved, agoraphobic single father is beseiged by hooded teenagers who may not be quite human.
  • Citizenfour (2014)
    Review preview for Citizenfour

    This is the first essential film about the post-Snowden era, made by one of the key figures who helped usher that era into being.

    Owen Van Spall · 5 out of 5
    Documentary about Edward Snowden.
  • Citizen Autistic (2013)
    Review preview for Citizen Autistic

    Historically, this film is likely to have considerable value as a snapshot of a movement at a pivotal time in its history.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Autistic people speak out about a charity that says it speaks for them.
  • Citizen Jane: Battle For The City (2016)
    Review preview for Citizen Jane: Battle For The City

    This documentary fails to join the dots or link a past that still resonates with a controversial present.

    Jane Fae · 3 out of 5
    In the 1960s, writer and activist Jane Jacobs fights against NYC’s most ruthless power broker, Robert Moses, and his draconian urban redevelopment plans.
  • Citizen Soldier (2016)
    Review preview for Citizen Soldier

    We get a real sense of what it might feel like to be trapped behind a tiny boulder on a hillside targeted by machine guns.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A documentary following a group of US soldiers in Afghanistan.
  • City Of Angels (1998)
    American reimagining of Wings Of Desire turns the schmaltz up to stun level.
  • City Of Ember (2008)
    Review preview for City Of Ember

    Good as Caroline Thompson's script is this is a City Of Ember that could do with a little stoking.

    Tony Sullivan · 3 out of 5
    Can a pair of teens save their world by finding a time capsule?
  • City Of Ghosts (2017)
    Review preview for City Of Ghosts

    Heineman's film inevitably includes some tough-to-watch footage but he recognises the power in not always showing death.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The citizen journalists risking their lives to report on atrocities within in Syria.
  • City Of Tiny Lights (2016)
    Review preview for City Of Tiny Lights

    Not a satire on the aspirations, colonial hangovers and intuitive racism of the Asian community in England's fraught and fractured land, but a detective story cluttered with high school nostalgia.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Crime thriller sees a PI from the Pakistani community of London's dark lands become embroiled in a missing person case.
  • The City Of Violence (2007)
    Review preview for The City Of Violence

    Despite some crunching, frenetic fight scenes in the denouement, City of Violence is unfortunately a lacklustre affair.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    Casinos and corruption in Korean crime thriller.
  • City Slacker (2012)
    Review preview for City Slacker

    City Slacker plays its set up for breezy rom-com laughs against the backdrop of a carnivorous corporate banking culture.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    An ambitious, successful woman seeks an unambitious, unsuccessful man to be a house husband.
  • CJ7 (2008)
    Review preview for CJ7

    A Chaplinesque transformation of a drab world into a place where everything is colourful, over-the-top and silly.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A strange toy transforms the life of a lonely young boy from an impoverished home.
  • The Claim (2000)
    Review preview for The Claim

    In his attempt to avoid Western cliches, Winterbottom is in danger of going too far the other way.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A man's decision to sell his wife and child for a prospecting claim comes back to haunt him when they return 20 years later.
  • Claire Dolan (1999)
    Review preview for Claire Dolan

    By avoiding the cliche of tart-with-a-heart, Kerrigan dives into the murky depths of psychological motivation

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Call girl with muddy motives tries to escape the sex industry.
  • The Clan (2015)
    Review preview for The Clan

    The film is briskly paced, infused with energy and the backdrop remains interesting.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    The true story of the Puccio Clan. A family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.
  • Classe Tous Risques (1960)
    Review preview for Classe Tous Risques

    Ranging and enjoyably unpredictable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A gangster goes on the run with his family.
  • Class Enemy (2013)
    Review preview for Class Enemy

    Rok Biček's film shows that the drive to go against the grain can have as much to do with running with the pack as with embracing individuality.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A teacher finds his class start to turn on him after tragedy strikes the school.
  • The Claude Chabrol Collection: Volume 2 (2005)
    Review preview for The Claude Chabrol Collection: Volume 2

    Secrets, lies and bloody murder.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A second pick'n'mix of Claude Chabrol's prolific output.
  • The Clay Bird (2002)
    Review preview for The Clay Bird

    Filled with great splendour and majesty.

    Trinity · 4 out of 5
    Life as a Muslim seen through the eyes of Bangledeshis on the verge of civil war.
  • Clean (2004)
    A struggling singer attempts to pull her life together and reconcile with her son after her rock star husband dies from a heroin overdose.
  • Cleanskin (2012)
    Review preview for Cleanskin

    Cleanskin is a smart and visceral thriller.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A secret agent tracks down a would-be suicide bomber and his cell.
  • The Clearstream Affair (2014)
    Review preview for The Clearstream Affair

    Who does what and how they fit into the scheme of things requires a refresher course

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Finance thriller, based on the real exploits of Denis Robert – an investigative journalist who spent years tracking the illicit activities of the Luxembourg-based Clearstream bank.
  • Clerks II (2006)
    The clerks start life anew in another miserable retail job.
  • Click (2006)
    Review preview for Click

    For a Saturday night popcorn comedy with a darker edge, you could do a lot worse.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A workaholic is given a magic remote control that exposes his weaknesses.
  • Client 9 (2010)
    Review preview for Client 9

    It’s hard to feel too much pity for Spitzer as the clichéd ‘man who had it all and threw it away’, but the film shows his virtues and faults, and presents a compelling, if occasionally anecdotal, case for there being conspiracy.

    Daniel Hooper · 4 out of 5
    A profile of the man who, potentially, could have been president, and the scandal that bought about his downfall.
  • Clockstoppers (2002)
    Science teacher's son in time speed travel thriller, as teenagers attempt to rescue kidnapped boffin.
  • The Clone Returns Home (2008)
    Review preview for The Clone Returns Home

    I find Tarkovsky’s mindset literal and linear by comparison to that of Nakajima.

    Tony Sullivan · 2 out of 5
    A Japanese astronaut who dies during a mission is subsequently resurrected as a clone and returns to his childhood home.
  • Closed Circuit (2013)
    Review preview for Closed Circuit

    Plot black holes quickly emerge and start to suck all believability out of the film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A barrister and a special advocate with a shared history find themselves in trouble after taing on a high-profile terrorism case.
  • Closed Curtain (2013)
    Review preview for Closed Curtain

    The more problematic aspects of the film stem from a narrative that cannot sustain the inventiveness of the central conceit and which peters out before the end.

    Rebecca Naughten · 3 out of 5
    A writer and his dog retreat to a coastal villa only to have their peace disturbed by two siblings fleeing the police.
  • Closer (2004)
    Review preview for Closer

    Director Mike Nichols' most powerful tour-de-force since the classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Chris · 5 out of 5
    A four-handed modern drama of sexual mores and interlocking relationships.
  • The Closer We Get (2015)
    Review preview for The Closer We Get

    Emotional weight grounds the film and gives it a resonance beyond the confines of this single family home.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Auto- biographical documentary about an apparently ordinary family having to stoically deal with broken dreams and hidden secrets.
  • The Closer You Get (2000)
    The unmarried men in a Donegal village advertise for women in a Miami newspaper.
  • The Closet (2000)
    Daniel Auteuil pretends to be gay to save his job at a condom factory.
  • Closet Monster (2015)
    Review preview for Closet Monster

    Well-paced, genuinely funny most of the time and emotionally resonant.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    A sexually confused teenager drifts into a fantasy world where his anxieties take physical shape.
  • Close To Home (2005)
    A group of teenage girls undertake national service in Jerusalem, dealing with personal tensions under pressure of public responsibility.
  • Close To You: Remembering The Carpenters (1999)
    Documentary about the musical brother and sister.
  • Closing The Ring (2007)
    Review preview for Closing The Ring

    Closing The Ring delivers romance on an epic scale and seems destined to be the pride of some people's DVD collections, but beneath the gloss and the carefully crafted performances, it's lacking something.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A widow's carefully constructed life unravels following the discovery of the ring worn by the man she loved 50 years before.
  • The Cloud (2006)
    Review preview for The Cloud

    The sort of movie that would be a great jumping off point for class discussions in senior schools.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A girl tries to take her brother to safety after an accident at a nuclear power plant.
  • Cloudburst (2011)
    Review preview for Cloudburst

    Stella is a gleefully crude dyke who could give Malcolm Tucker a run for his money in a creative swearing contest.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    An elderly lesbian couple flee the threat of a nursing home and head to Canada to marry, picking up a hitchhiker along the way.
  • Clouds Of Sils Maria (2014)
    Review preview for Clouds Of Sils Maria

    There is much irony on the theme of generational gulfs, internet obsessions and the nature of creativity and culture. Unfortunately none of it rings true.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    A reclusive actress on the brink of divorce is asked to take on a challenging role - that of a doomed woman whose betrayer she made her name as.

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