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  • The Plague (2005)
    Review preview for The Plague

    . Hall's inventive camerawork brings to life the vibrancy of the boys' social world, underscored by a cutting edge hip-hop soundtrack featuring Skinnyman and DJ Flip.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Four young friends struggle to make their way in London's underworld.
  • Planeat (2010)
    Review preview for Planeat

    For fans of cookery programmes it is likely to be love at first sight.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary looking at the impact of dietary choices on Earth's ecosystem.
  • Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)
    Review preview for Planes: Fire & Rescue

    Surprisingly for a cartoon aimed at pre-teens, this is about aging

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    When Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he joins a forest fire and rescue unit to be trained as a firefighter.
  • Planetary (2015)
    Review preview for Planetary

    The further the documentary progresses, the more enlightenment is strangled by hand-wringing.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Philosophical musings on the state of the Earth.
  • Planet B-Boy (2007)
    Review preview for Planet B-Boy

    Well-made and great to look at - but strictly for fans only.

    Scott Macdonald · 2.5 out of 5
    Documentary looking at the world of breakdancing.
  • Planet Of Snail (2011)
    Review preview for Planet Of Snail

    Yi proves adept at documenting the tactile nature of Young-Chan's relationship with the world

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Documentary about a deaf-blind man and his wife.
  • Planet Terror (2007)
    Review preview for Planet Terror

    Glorious, a hilariously stupid zombie fest that spoofs and honours grindhouse so much better than the tenuously related Death Proof.

    Ben Sillis · 4.5 out of 5
    Survivors take on infected zombies in the second part of the double-bill formerly known as Grindhouse.
  • Plan B (2009)
    Review preview for Plan B

    Despite being slightly reductive, this low budget Argentinean film is still largely a sweet and honest portrayal of two men falling in love.

    Dan Hooper · 3 out of 5
    When a man is dumped by his girlfriend, he determines to win her back... even if he has to get her new man out of the way.
  • Plastic (2014)
    Review preview for Plastic

    It looks like a made-for-TV-movie, with nothing cinematic, nothing original

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Student credit card scammers join forces with low rent street hustlers only to be blackmailed by heavy duty East European gangsters
  • Platform (2000)
    Review preview for Platform

    Jia Zhang-Ke 's style has an honesty that may be limited, but is admirable, too.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A group of young people in Shanxi Province, China, hang about in the early Eighties.
  • Play (2005)
    Review preview for Play

    Like everyone in it, the film goes nowhere, although the final scenes suggest an outcome which can only work as a dream sequence.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Four characters in search of a lover in Chile.
  • La Playa DC (2012)
    Review preview for La Playa DC

    A refreshingly low-key and visually distinct work.

    Michael Pattison · 3.5 out of 5
    Tomás is trying to make his way in Bogota. Looking for his young brother Jairo, he sets out on a journey that will test his ability to deal with the fear and wounds of the past.
  • Playtime (1967)
    Review preview for Playtime

    There are moments of brilliance but also points where Tati simply lays on everything too thick.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Monsieur Hulot becomes caught up in an American tourist invasion of Paris.
  • A Play for Freedom (2012)
    Review preview for A Play for Freedom

    Apfel's film just watches, even surveils.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Is censored art better than no art at all?
  • Play The Devil (2016)
    Review preview for Play The Devil

    Jones is impressive in a film that depends largely on his performance.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A gifted and struggling young man becomes the object of intrigue for an older, well-meaning businessman until their worlds collide at Carnival.
  • Plácido (1961)
    Review preview for Plácido

    Berlanga excels at the chaos of everyday life - the messiness of human interactions and the way in which lives randomly interconnect.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4.5 out of 5
    A town's charity initiative to 'sit a poor man at your table' for Christmas dinner continually thwarts one man's efforts to protect his livelihood.
  • Pleasant Days (2002)
    Review preview for Pleasant Days

    If you are turned off by European arthouse movies then this is more likely to confirm your dispassion rather than change your beliefs.

    Gator MacReady · 1 out of 5
    Newly paroled timewaster Peter wanders aimlessly from scene to scene as he continues to squander his life.
  • Please Give (2009)
    Review preview for Please Give

    It wouldn't matter so much if Holofcener was seeking to undercut some of this privilege but what the film appears to be saying is that it's okay to be materialistic, as long as you occasionally wring your hands about it first.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Ensemble comedy drama explores the angst of middle-class New Yorkers.
  • Pluto (2012)
    Review preview for Pluto

    Pluto is an oddly funny film - inhabiting as isolated a world as its titular celestial body.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    A boy works hard to try and enter the elite class at his school, but is kept out by a brutal clique.
  • Pluto Nash (2002)
    Review preview for Pluto Nash

    The late 21st century moonscape resembles Las Vegas in a bubble and the hoods behave like they've never left straight-to-video.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Eddie Murphy is chased by mobsters in the late 21st century on the moon.
  • Point And Shoot (2014)
    Review preview for Point And Shoot

    As a study of one man's narcissistic motivations, Curry's film is taut but the bigger picture remains frustratingly out of reach.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    How a naive American with OCD joined the Libyan revolution.
  • Point Blank (2010)
    Review preview for Point Blank

    While Sartet's back story is as pulpy as they come, it's the delivery that matters and in terms of action thrills, Cavayé never takes his foot off the throttle.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    An ordinary nurse defies all odds to help an injured gangster escape from the hospital where he works in order to save his kidnapped, pregnant wife.
  • Point Break (2015)
    Review preview for Point Break

    The fun has been replaced by contemporary posturing, the carefree by right-on slacktivism, and the nostalgia by a desire to be an action film that revels in shocks and thrills, despite its inherent redundancy.

    Luke Shaw · 1 out of 5
    A remake of the nineties classic in which a young FBI agent pursues an athlete he suspects of leading a gang of robbers.
  • Point Pleasant: The Complete Season (2005)
    Review preview for Point Pleasant: The Complete Season

    One of those hideous television guilty pleasures.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    Is the girl, saved from drowning, the daughter of the Devil and will the good people of Point Pleasant change her for the better?
  • Poirot: Agatha Christie's Poirot - Sad Cypress (1989)
    Review preview for Poirot: Agatha Christie's Poirot - Sad Cypress

    The short Poirot TV series was limited by time, although never moulded into stereotype, mainly due to David Suchet's incomparable performances.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The Belgian sleuth follows the lead of a poison pen letter to a country house murder.
  • Pola X (1999)
    Review preview for Pola X

    After two-and-a-half hours of this, you worry about your own sanity.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A man leaves his fiancee after a strange young woman appears, claiming to be his sister.
  • Policewoman (2003)
    Review preview for Policewoman

    A distinctive, yet enigmatic, film.

    Trinity · 3.5 out of 5
    A mother and son escape from their past lives in Portugal.
  • Police Adjective (2009)
    Review preview for Police Adjective

    This is a police procedural, but it's also about the nature of policing, about the gap between law and justice, the self and the state.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    A young policeman crosses swords with his supervisor when he hesitates to turn in a teen caught with drugs.
  • Police Assassins (1985)
    Review preview for Police Assassins

    The real point of the thing is to show off the cast's kung fu at any given opportunity.

    Gabriella Trybalska · 2.5 out of 5
    Martial arts queen Michelle Yeoh kicks ass with help from Brit Rothrock.
  • Police Beat (2005)
    Review preview for Police Beat

    Police Beat is a strange little film. Niang is stiff and wooden at times, but, at others, the flow is perfect.

    George Williamson · 3 out of 5
    The life of a Seattle cop, who worries more about his personal life than city crime.
  • Police Story: Lockdown (2013)
    Review preview for Police Story: Lockdown

    The best new Die Hard film so far this century.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A police officer, his daughter and a group of strangers are taken hostage by a nightclub owner, but all is not what it seems.
  • Polisse (2011)
    Review preview for Polisse

    The camera is always very close to the actors, in their faces, capturing what can only be done in fiction.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Drama delves into the lives and work of a child protection unit.
  • The Polka King (2017)
    Review preview for The Polka King

    Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky love their protagonist just a bit too much.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A Polish migrant tries to make it big in Pennsylvania.
  • Polska (2015)
    Review preview for Polska

    The film is a bit of a hotchpotch... but it paints a warm portrait.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Documentary about ex-Marillion frontman Fish.
  • Poltergay (2006)
    Review preview for Poltergay

    A little gem... one of the best comedies around.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    They're here . . . and they're queer. The ghosts of Disco Past cause trouble for a young couple.
  • Poltergeist (2015)
    Review preview for Poltergeist

    Unfortunately the malicious ghouls of the title aren’t the only spirits haunting director Gil Kenan’s prefab carnival ride.

    Luke Shaw · 2 out of 5
    A family's suburban idyll is shattered after they youngest daughter is taken captive by evil forces.
  • Pomegranates And Myrrh (2008)
    Review preview for Pomegranates And Myrrh

    Pomegranates And Myrrh is concerned with living within the Palestinian diaspora, and living within a situation you have no power to change.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    The wife of a Palestinian prisoner searches for freedom.
  • POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011)
    Review preview for POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

    Spurlock is mesmerising in his pitches.

    Val Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The filmmaker sets out to finance a documentary about product placement in the movies by making his own product placement deals with major companies.
  • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
    Review preview for Pooh's Heffalump Movie

    I give director Frank Nissen full marks for creating the very essence of the English countryside.

    Stephanie Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Roo goes hunting for a heffalump.
  • Pool Of Princesses (2007)
    Review preview for Pool Of Princesses

    Holds little relevance to a British audience.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Three 15-year-old girls talk about their lives.
  • Poor Agnes (2017)
    Review preview for Poor Agnes

    Keenly observational and darkly erotic, Poor Agnes is a complex tale full of telling details.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A sadistic serial killer and the private detective she holds prisoner form an unlikely bond.
  • Popcorn (2007)
    Review preview for Popcorn

    Popcorn is low budget indy Brit cinema with its pants down, irreverent, flirty, fun and confident.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Working in the multiplex is a lesson in How To Get The Girl.
  • Populaire (2012)
    Review preview for Populaire

    Populaire benefits from a savvy script with multi-layered humour and from superb work by its stars.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An insurance agent grooms a wayward secretary for a speed typing contest, and falls in love in the process.
  • Popular Music (2004)
    Review preview for Popular Music

    The film feels fractured, with bizarre transitions and editing, which often leave you wondering quite what's going on.

    George Williamson · 2.5 out of 5
    In the Swedish backwoods rock-and-roll becomes act of rebellion for pubescent teenagers.
  • Pop Aye (2017)
    Review preview for Pop Aye

    Like all good road trips, the destination may be a the top of the protagonist's mind but the film says a lot more about his past and present than his future.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A disenchanted architect goes on a road trip with an elephant.
  • Porches And Private Eyes (2016)
    Review preview for Porches And Private Eyes

    There's a soap opera character to this which is likely to divide viewers.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Three women become suspicious after a local man goes missing. Dismissed by the local sheriff, they decide to switch gossip for action.
  • Porco Rosso (1992)
    Anime adventures of a flying pig, Italian Fascists, pirates and an American contract killer between the wars in Europe.
  • Pornography: A Thriller (2009)
    Review preview for Pornography: A Thriller

    An excuse to show gay soft porn and try to emulate David Lynch’s uncomfortable weirdness.

    Caro Ness · 3 out of 5
    The mystery of a gay porn star who disappears.
  • Pororoca (2017)
    Review preview for Pororoca

    Popescu's film isn't about loud recriminations but the way that lives can disintegrate by degrees.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Cristina and Tudor Ionescu have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. But when one of their children disappears, their life changes forever.
  • Le Portrait De Petit Cossette (2004)
    Review preview for Le Portrait De Petit Cossette

    Despite scenes of brutal murder and demonic torture, the film is imbued with a tone of surprising innocence.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Creepy anime on the madness of artists and treachery of images.

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