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• Empire V (2023)

  Review preview for Empire V

  The satire isn’t subtle but has to balance the fact that much of what we see is essentially propaganda created by the vampire elite.

  A film which chronicles how loader Roman Shtorkin becomes a vampire and receives the title of Rama II.
• Employee Of The Month (2021)

  Review preview for Employee Of The Month

  Where the film shines is in the incidental details, the small observations and asides which contribute to setting the tone.

  Black comedy. An employee at a cleaning products company accidentally commits a messily bloody crime – and must figure out how to cover her tracks with the help of her young trainee.
• Emptiness (2023)

  Review preview for Emptiness

  Cinematographer Thomas McNamara uses high ceilings and long shadows to give the subtle impression that the house is getting bigger and Suzanne smaller by comparison.

  A lonely woman is looked after in a house where she is haunted by the shadows of her past.
• Empty Nets (2023)

  Review preview for Empty Nets

  Karamizade is deft at capturing shifting moods.

  A man and a woman from two different social classes keep their relationship a secret as the man struggles to raise a dowry.
• The Encampments (2025)

  Review preview for The Encampments

  Incisive and thorough.

  Students flooded Columbia University's lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies.
• Encanto (2021)

  Review preview for Encanto

  It is breezy, bright, brilliant.

  A young Colombian girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers.
• Enchanted (2007)

  Review preview for Enchanted

  A simple idea delivered so cleverly that it holds your attention from the opening of the storybook right up to its fairytale ending.

  Exiled to modern New York City, a fairytale princess collides with the real world.
• Encounters (2023)

  Review preview for Encounters

  With its use of extreme close-ups and focus on odd details, its heavy investment in atmosphere and its absurdist asides, Encounters is a visually hypnotising film, engaged in its own experiments with shifting perspective.

  A nurse caring for a weakened alien begins to oppose a group of corrupt officials who are intimidating him and extracting a valuable substance from him.
• Encounters At The End Of The World (2007)

  Review preview for Encounters At The End Of The World

  What he’s talking about and looking for is oddity masquerading as normality.

  The infamous director Werner Herzog visits the Antarctic, determined not to make a movie about penguins.
• The End (2024)

  Review preview for The End

  It’s ironic that a film about a family who have built a perfect facsimile of a life for themselves should feel so overly constructed itself

  After the sudden arrival of a stranger, Girl, threatens Mother and Father's family’s luxurious compound deep underground, Son begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
• Endangered Species (2021)

  Review preview for Endangered Species

  Once or twice the CGI at least has the element of surprise on its side but any time we're asked to look for more than a moment at these digitally created animals, it ruins the realism.

  A rich American family head for a dream vacation but find themselves in a struggle for survival after their safari vehicle is attacked.
• Ender's Game (2013)

  Review preview for Ender's Game

  Ender's Game is a cut above a lot of sci-fi action films for teenagers, confronting them not just with special effects, but with a decent debate concerning the morality and politics of war.

  A young boy is trained to lead his fellow soldiers into battle against an alien race.
• The Endless (2017)

  Review preview for The Endless

  The proportion of films opening with HP Lovecraft quotes that manage to live up to the visionary writer's work verges on the infinitesimal, but The Endless is one of the special ones.

  Years after escaping a cult as teenagers, brothers Aaron and Justin return to their former home after receiving a mysterious message. While Aaron is quickly drawn back into the fold, Justin remains uneasy.
• The Endless Trench (2019)

  Review preview for The Endless Trench

  The Endless Trench marries its effective prison drama element to a relationship drama, artfully highlighting the impact of hiding out, not just on those forced to do it but on their loved ones.

  Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide to use a hole dug into their own home as a provisional hiding place... but their imprisonment will go on for years.
• The End Of Oak Street (2026)

  Review preview for The End Of Oak Street

  When the rubber meets the road of The End Of Oak Street it doesn't quite grip

  The Platt family bands together to navigate new surroundings after a cosmic event transports a suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown.
• End Of Sentence (2019)

  Review preview for End Of Sentence

  All praise to the acting here, as each star deliver characters with depth and meaning, without the encumbrance of lengthy self-exposition.

  A widower embarks on a journey to fulfil his wife's wish to have her ashes scattered in Ireland, taking his estranged son along for the trip.
• The End Of Sex (2022)

  Review preview for The End Of Sex

  As in most successful sex comedies, the key to this film is that it’s not really sex that’s the problem, but rather the great weight of other concerns – about self-esteem, social status and ageing – associated with it.

  A couple feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood, send their kids to winter camp for the first time and embark on a series of sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.
• The End Of The Affair (1999)

  Review preview for The End Of The Affair

  Julianne Moore, as Sarah Miles, is a revelation.

  Tale of adultery during the blitz.
• The End Of Us (2021)

  Review preview for The End Of Us

  There are just enough events to keep things interesting without distracting from the fact that it's really the sameness of things that is behind the character interactions we see.

  After a savage breakup, two exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for Covid-19. Now they’ll try to move on without moving out.
• The End Of Violence (1997)

  Review preview for The End Of Violence

  No one is quite who they seem, which suits the peculiar Californian unease that comes with bad air.

  A workaholic LA producer is kidnapped and escapes leading to a re-examination of his life and a hefty slice of intrigue.
• The End We Start From (2023)

  Review preview for The End We Start From

  If you take it for what it is rather than what it was marketed as, The End We Start From is an interesting watch.

  A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
• Enemies Of The State (2020)

  Review preview for Enemies Of The State

  Almost everybody here is hiding something - sometimes from themselves.

  When their hacker son is targeted by the US Government, the DeHarts will do anything to protect him.
• Enemy Of The State (1998)

  Review preview for Enemy Of The State

  If you like thrillers high roasted, this will keep you awake.

  A wildlife ranger gets caught up in a political conspiracy.
• Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)

  Review preview for Les Enfants du Paradis

  Breathtakingly ambitious, exquisitely realised and performed and made under extreme circumstances, Les Enfants Du Paradis is an absolute joy to behold and a monument to the power of the arts to transcend opressive social and political climates.

  Four men compete for the affections of Garance, a free spirited courtesan.
• The English Patient (1996)

  Review preview for The English Patient

  Seldom has passion felt so primed, or sex so explosive.

  Love and war expose the vulnerability of hope for a passion that seeks solitude in the desert.
• Entebbe (2018)

  Review preview for Entebbe

  The story expands beyond the conventions of a Boys Own adventure

  Dramatisation of the rescue attempt after the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris.
• Enter The Clones Of Bruce Lee (2023)

  Review preview for Enter The Clones Of Bruce Lee

  A fascinating portrait of a cinematic era which will leave those who remain martial arts fans with a lot of titles to hunt down.

  A documentary about the men drafted in to fill the gap and keep audiences happy after the death of cinema's greatest martial arts star.
• Enter The Dragon (1973)

  Review preview for Enter The Dragon

  Lee is terrific and his natural charisma gives the film the energy it needs.

  A Shaolin martial artist travels to an island fortress to spy on an opium lord - who is also a former monk from his temple - under the guise of attending a fighting tournament.
• Enter The Void (2009)

  Review preview for Enter The Void

  A day-glo postmortem avant-garde mind-trip that for some will be enlightening, while others will find it to be little more than an endurance test.

  A psychedelic journey into the afterlife.
• Entrapment (1999)

  Review preview for Entrapment

  Entrapment is a thriller so light it floats away into that place where a 60-year-old bloke is as agile as a chamois and a girl who works in insurance doubles as an international art thief.

  An insurer tries to help capture and art thief.
• Enys Men (2022)

  Review preview for Enys Men

  It has a Wicker Man feel but without the flamboyant histrionics

  A volunteer observing a rare wild flower finds the different worlds that have inhabited the island where she is beginning to collide.
• Enzo (2025)

  Review preview for Enzo

  Yet Pohu’s performance sums up all the conflicted feelings, desires and anxieties of someone at the crossroads of entering adulthood.

  A 16-year-old boy breaks out from his bourgeois family and starts an apprenticeship as a stonemason. He also meets a Ukrainian colleague who turns his world upside down.
• EO (2022)

  Review preview for EO

  The beast of burden’s travails seem to be a thinly veiled criticism of Polish society which erupts in one sequence into mindless violence.

  Tale revolving around an unassuming grey donkey.
• Epic Tails (2022)

  Review preview for Epic Tails

  There's some action, excitement, lashings of snot and vomit, and excellent examples of problem-solving through teamwork and self-belief.

  A young, adventurous mouse and the cat she adopted unwittingly help Jason and the Argonauts to protect their city from the wrath of Poseidon.
• The Equalizer (2014)

  Review preview for The Equalizer

  Now it's Denzel Washington's turn, which means this is serious and requires a smart turn out at all times and a watch that goes 'bleep'.

  A former commando comes out of retirement to rescue a teenage hooker from the Russian mafia in New York.
• The Equalizer 2 (2018)

  Review preview for The Equalizer 2

  It's complicated and increasingly violent

  Ex-CIA hitman, Robert McCall, is trying to stay incognito and low key as a Boston cab driver but is drawn into a mysterious murder in Brussels that has fatal and violent consequences.
• Equals (2015)

  Review preview for Equals

  A ragbag of cliches that owe a debt to everything from Romeo and Juliet to THX 1138.

  A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated but where a genetic glitch means some people can still fall in love.
• Equilibrium (2002)

  Review preview for Equilibrium

  Equilibrium is that rarest of cinematic entities, a film which succeeds both as intelligent science fiction and as action drama.

  Brave New World by any other name, with Christian Bale as a cop who sees the light.
• Eragon (2006)

  Review preview for Eragon

  The film has more violent action than a PG-certificate dares admit to and looks suitably legendary.

  When a simple farm boy discovers a dragon's egg, he also finds his destiny: to recover the lost art of dragon riding and save the kingdom from evil.
• Erased, Ascent Of The Invisible (2018)

  Review preview for Erased, Ascent Of The Invisible

  The nature of erasure and memory rubs up against ideas of collective guilt in Ghassan Halwani's measured and moving documentary.

  Documentary about thousands of people who disappeared during the Lebanon Civil War.
• Eraserhead (1977)

  Review preview for Eraserhead

  Eraserhead is no ordinary film - it's a complete sensory experience which will haunt you for years to come.

  Early David Lynch classic about a young man in a bleak industrial environment driven slowly mad by the crying of his mutant baby.
• Erasing Frank (2021)

  Review preview for Erasing Frank

  While it's hard to say that Fabricius's film is completely fresh, it is undoubtedly up-to-date and effective.

  The singer of a banned punk band is taken to a psychiatric hospital in an attempt to silence him.
• Erin's Guide To Kissing Girls (2022)

  Review preview for Erin's Guide To Kissing Girls

  There are a lot of nicely observed little details.

  A young lesbian and her best friend (and fellow comics nerd) find their friendship under pressure as they face the prospect of being at separate schools and the former develops a crush on a new girl.
• Erin Brockovich (1999)

  Review preview for Erin Brockovich

  Finney adds definite class to Roberts high octane performance.

  A feisty single mother uncovers a toxic scandal.
• Ernesto's Manifesto (2019)

  Review preview for Ernesto's Manifesto

  What makes the film successful is its masterful central performance.

  A kind but naive man loses his job, his girlfriend and his home on the same day but his warmth and honesty set him on the road to unexpected good fortune.
• Eros (2004)

  Review preview for Eros

  Antonioni's film is the last of the three here, and is arguably the weakest, which is something of a disappointment because the disciples seem to have overshadowed the leader.

  Three short films about Eros.
• Erratum 2037 (2017)

  Review preview for Erratum 2037

  Half as long as Tenet and at least four times as fun.

  After a high school student accidentally intercepts a message from the future, he is kidnapped and sent into the future where he has to stop the mad plans of an evil genius.
• Escape (2023)

  Review preview for Escape

  Ford is a strong action director and spare plots often serve that best, but here the action is really the film’s only redeeming quality.

  Ten trafficked women attempt to escape from a ruthless gang after being abducted from a holiday resort.
• Escape From Hong Kong Island (2004)

  Review preview for Escape From Hong Kong Island

  Chan gives a performance of real depth, displaying a wide range of emotions and great physical comedy.

  A stock trader in Hong Kong discovers that power and wealth is nothing if you are not happy.
• Escape From LA (1996)

  Review preview for Escape From LA

  Degenerates into a haphazard mish-mash of special effects, action set pieces and largely pointless cameos.

  By-the-numbers remake-cum-sequel to Escape from New York.