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  • The Commander: Vol 4-6 (2007)
    Review preview for The Commander: Vol 4-6

    This is better than good telly; it is excellent filmmaking.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Three new mysteries from the doyenne of tough TV cop dramas.
  • Communion (2013)
    Review preview for Communion

    Communion is a film that suffers mainly from the scale of its ambition, never quite pulling off what it has taken on.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A priest who is losing his faith meets a rebellious hitchhiker as he hits the road looking for something he can't quite face.
  • Community (2012)
    Review preview for Community

    The film is too obviously trying to be taken seriously. This is difficult when it borrows one of its plot points from the horror nadir that is Troll 2.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    Two student filmmakers investigate a run-down housng estate and get more than they bargained for.
  • Company (2002)
    Gangs of Mumbai, Bollywood style.
  • The Company (2003)
    Robert Altman follows a Chicago ballet company as it prepares for a major show.
  • Company Limited (1971)
    Review preview for Company Limited

    Nigh-on unmissable.

    James Benefield · 4 out of 5
    Acidic middle-class drama set in Calcutta.
  • Complete Unknown (2016)
    Review preview for Complete Unknown

    The film itself has a fluid identity, part will they/won't they romance, part mystery and part unsettling thriller.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    An enigmatic woman walks back into the life of a man she knew before.
  • The Complex (2013)
    Review preview for The Complex

    Tempered by a script that leads in directions that feel a bit silly at times.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    A young student gradually becomes aware that something sinister is afoot in her housing complex.
  • Complicity (1999)
    An investigative journalist discovers people in his articles are being bumped off by a serial killer.
  • Comrades In Dreams (2006)
    Review preview for Comrades In Dreams

    A monument to the days before the multiplexes.

    Chris · 3 out of 5
    A documentary about cinema lovers in far flung corners of the world.
  • Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012)
    Review preview for Comrade Kim Goes Flying

    If you didn't know this film was made in North Korea, you could be forgiven for thinking it is a South Korean parody of a propaganda movie.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A romantic, musical tale about a coal miner who dreams of becoming a trapeze artist.
  • La Comunidad (2000)
    Review preview for La Comunidad

    Although hardly enjoyable, his films are never dull.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Macabre comedy sees a woman trying to smuggle cash out of a house, from under the noses of her weirdo neighbours.
  • Conan The Destroyer (1984)
    Review preview for Conan The Destroyer

    There's still that thrilling Basil Poledouris score and there's some great creature work by Carlo Rambaldi.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Conan sets out to steal a crystal from a magic fortress in order to restore his dead girlfriend to life.
  • Concerning Violence (2013)
    Review preview for Concerning Violence

    A collage of archival footage, carefully curated to create a provocative think piece.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An examination of colonialism.
  • The Concert (2009)
    Review preview for The Concert

    The film deftly avoids pretension by counterpointing all its creative talent with a sort of general rubbishness about people and places that's deeply endearing.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A Russian conductor sacked under the old regime turns the tables with a scheme to impersonate the Bolshoi orchestra at one fabulous Paris concert.
  • Concrete Night (2013)
    Review preview for Concrete Night

    A powerful piece of work, beautifully depicted.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A youngster receives bad advice from his soon-to-be-jailed older brother.
  • Concussion (2013)
    Review preview for Concussion

    A brilliant central performance from Robin Weigert.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A frustrated woman secretly becomes a lesbian escort.
  • Confession (2001)
    A husband suspects his wife of infidelity and tries to make her confess.
  • Confessions (2010)
    Review preview for Confessions

    So while a difficult, challenging experience - both emotionally and cerebrally - this is a masterful, endlessly intriguing piece.

    James Benefield · 4 out of 5
    A teacher who thinks two of her pupils are responsible for the death of her daughter takes revenge.
  • Confessions Of A Shopaholic (2009)
    Review preview for Confessions Of A Shopaholic

    I can hardly remember a movie more spectacularly ill-timed.

    Scott Macdonald · 2 out of 5
    Ditzy farce about fiscally irresponsible journalist.
  • Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
    A trendy teenage girl moves from New York to New Jersey and tries to become the most popular girl at her new school.
  • Confetti (2006)
    Magazine wedding competition becomes improv mockumentary with tennis balls.
  • Confidence (2003)
    Review preview for Confidence

    Clever thrillers that flirt with film noir are always welcome, but this is too smart for its own good.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Confidence trickery in LA, featuring a gang of smarty pants versus a very odd Dustin Hoffman.
  • The Conformist (1970)
    Review preview for The Conformist

    A haunting, tragi-comical film.

    Ben Sillis · 4.5 out of 5
    An insecure man is persuaded to become an assassin, the target his former teacher.
  • Connected (2008)
    Review preview for Connected

    A high-octane thriller full of exhilarating chase scenes, fight sequences and edge of seat suspense, Connected also takes time to explore the dynamics between its various characters.

    James Gracey · 3.5 out of 5
    A single father receives a telephone call from a stranger who says she has been kidnapped.
  • Connie And Carla Do LA (2004)
    Review preview for Connie And Carla Do LA

    The story doesn't make sense.

    David Haviland · 3 out of 5
    Two female lounge singers hide out as drag queens after witnessing a mob killing.
  • Consenting Adults (2007)
    Review preview for Consenting Adults

    The whole movie has a slightly flat “filler episode of a BBC political drama” feel to it.

    Susanna Krawczyk · 2 out of 5
    The story of John Wolfenden and the legalisation of homosexuality in England.
  • The Consequences Of Love (2004)
    Review preview for The Consequences Of Love

    Simply unmissable.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    Existential thriller explores the mystery of a quiet man in a provincial hotel.
  • Constructors (2012)
    Review preview for Constructors

    The actors sell it.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    Three bickering siblings are forced to work together to build a house quickly so that their family land won't be confiscated.
  • Contact (2009)
    Review preview for Contact

    The concept is flawed. The aboriginals have been exploited, not in a bad way, but in order to make a film.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The story of the indigenous Martu tribe, cleared from their land in 1964 to make way for rocket testing.
  • Containment (2015)
    Review preview for Containment

    The film successfully unsettles the viewer by demonstrating the number of headaches the rush to harness the power of the atom has left us.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    Documentary on the potential future problems from the world's nuclear waste.
  • Containment (2015)
    Review preview for Containment

    McEnery-West turns his restrictions to virtues, creating a nightmarish, hermetically sealed world where his audience share the protagonists’ sense of brutal dislocation.

    Jeff Robson · 4 out of 5
    The residents of a tower block find themselves sealed in when a lethal infection breaks out…
  • Contamination (1980)
    Review preview for Contamination

    Contamination is a delight from start to finish for those who like that sort of thing.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    When strange and apparently deadly eggs arrive in a New York harbour, the race is on to uncover their origins.
  • Contemporary Days (2009)
    Review preview for Contemporary Days

    This documentary tells their story. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much else.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A documentary exploring the lives and careers of two of Britain's most influential modernist artists and designers, whose iconic work inspired a generation.
  • The Contender (2000)
    Rival vice-presidential candidates are embroiled in battle of PR and intrigue in this intelligent political satire.
  • Contraband (2012)
    Review preview for Contraband

    What should simply be a diverting no-brainer is made considerably harder to swallow by the script's shallow handling of some unsavoury subject matter.

    David Graham · 2 out of 5
    Action thriller about a reluctant smuggler.
  • Control (2003)
    Review preview for Control

    Control is a highly eclectic tableaux of darkness and humour, life and death, characters and incidents, supernatural and commonplace.

    David Stanners · 3.5 out of 5
    A bizarre fictional insight into the idiosyncratic lives of Budapest’s underground train inspectors.
  • Convento (2011)
    Review preview for Convento

    Alterman's camera languidly soaks up the landscape, lingering long enough so that we can appreciate both the beauty of the setting and the surprising dialogue created between it and Christiaan's artwork.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A dreamlike documentary about an unusual family of artists who live in an old monastery.
  • Conversations With My Gardener (2007)
    Review preview for Conversations With My Gardener

    One rarely sees a film this well crafted.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A Parisian artist taking refuge in the countryside forms a powerful friendship with the gardener he knew as a child.
  • Conversations With Other Women (2005)
    Review preview for Conversations With Other Women

    The perspective feels forced and wrong.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A man and a woman have a one-night stand.
  • Conviction (2010)
    Review preview for Conviction

    We shouldn’t feel so obviously manipulated and steered away from everything else towards the leads’ performances.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    Based on a true story, this drama tells of a sister's struggle to prove her brother's innocence.
  • Convoy (1978)
    Review preview for Convoy

    Borgnine easily steals the rug out from everyone with his sadistic, larger than life villain.

    Paul Logan · 3 out of 5
    After getting on the wrong side of a sadistic sheriff, a group of truckers makes for the border, hoping to reach it before the law catches up.
  • Cookie's Fortune (1998)
    Review preview for Cookie's Fortune

    Altman has chosen the perfect cast.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Ensemble drama centring on a death.
  • The Cooler (2003)
    Review preview for The Cooler

    Not a particularly impressive film.

    David Haviland · 3 out of 5
    The unluckiest man in Las Vegas finds love.
  • Cool And Crazy (2001)
    Review preview for Cool And Crazy

    The good humour of all those involved, including the wives, is infectious.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Norwegian documentary telling the tale of a male voice choir and its members in the remote fishing village of Berlevag.
  • The Cool School (2008)
    Review preview for The Cool School

    There's a sense that some of the humour which must have been present around these strong personalities is missing.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A look back at the birth of L.A.'s modern art movement and the famous Ferus gallery.
  • The Cool World (1964)
    Review preview for The Cool World

    You really believe that you are there with these people, living in their world.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 5 out of 5
    Stark portrait of 1960s Harlem.
  • Copying Beethoven (2006)
    Review preview for Copying Beethoven

    An honest musical understanding is displayed throughout and it provides a refreshing undercurrent in what might otherwise be a stiflingly familiar tale.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The last year in the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven, seen through the eyes of a young copyist.
  • Cop On A Mission (2001)
    An undercover cop infiltrates a Hong Kong gang and learns to like it.
  • Corn Island (2014)
    Review preview for Corn Island

    Ovashvili tells the story with spare dialogue and absorbing attention to detail.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    An old peasant and his innocent 16-year-old granddaughter sow corn on an island in the middle of the Inguri River dividing Georgia from Abkhazia.

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