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  • Rabbit Fever (2006)
    Review preview for Rabbit Fever

    The main weakness of the film is that the idea is not enough to sustain 85 minutes

    Chris · 1 out of 5
    Mockumentary dedicated to the most popular vibrator in the boudoir.
  • Rabbit Hole (2010)
    Review preview for Rabbit Hole

    The acting is good - particularly from Eckhart and Teller - but director John Cameron Mitchell never quite finds a way to reach beyond the boundaries of its original stage work.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Eight months after the death of their son, a couple are still trying to cope with grief.
  • Rabbit On The Moon (2004)
    Review preview for Rabbit On The Moon

    The unrelenting brutality, both mental and physical, denies hope and leaves the audience stunned.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Framed for murder by Mexico's corrupt law enforcement agents.
  • Rabies (2010)
    Review preview for Rabies

    The script is knowing, loving and amusingly toys with the genre.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    As a psycho killer lurks in the woods, a group of nervous people might represent a bigger threat to each other.
  • Rachel Getting Married (2008)
    Review preview for Rachel Getting Married

    Rachel Getting Married wants to boldly explore unknown territory and should be praised for it.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A young woman's wedding arrangements are disrupted by the arrival of her demanding, obnoxious, and painfully vulnerable sister.
  • Racing Extinction (2015)
    Review preview for Racing Extinction

    It's as if we're being asked, once again, to believe that rock n' roll will really save the world.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Documentary charts the problems of mass extinction.
  • Racing Stripes (2004)
    Review preview for Racing Stripes

    Just so you know, if you've seen Babe, or Animal Farm, there isn't any reason to see this. I'm surprised there haven't been infringement lawsuits threatened.

    Gator MacReady · 2 out of 5
    A zebra from the circus grows up on a farm, believing he's a racehorse.
  • Radiant (2005)
    Review preview for Radiant

    The film is so preposterously overwrought and mundane that it's hard to imagine that writer/director Steve Mahone could overlook such obvious dullness.

    Gator MacReady · 1.5 out of 5
    A new vaccine creates a deadly virus.
  • Radiator (2013)
    Review preview for Radiator

    A towering performance from veteran actor Richard Johnson dominates the film.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Blackly comic drama about the strain of coping with ageing parents in a long troubled family.
  • Radio (2003)
    Review preview for Radio

    While Gooding's performance is fine, it's so bound up in artifice that it's hard to really admire.

    Andrea Mullaney · 2.5 out of 5
    True life story of a mentally disabled man who is helped by a high school football coach
  • Radius (2017)
    Review preview for Radius

    Writer Caroline Labrèche and co-director Steeve Léonard use science fiction framing to invite viewers along on a journey that will take them somewhere very different.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    After a car crash a man is left with no memory... and discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
  • The Rage In Placid Lake (2003)
    Review preview for The Rage In Placid Lake

    It's hard to know exactly where the humour is heading, which is refreshing, but when it hits the high notes, it's both quirky and delivered with razor precision.

    David Stanners · 4.5 out of 5
    Subversive comedy about an oddball making his way in a bland world.
  • Raging Phoenix (2009)
    Review preview for Raging Phoenix

    There are too many fight scenes scattered throughout, and each really could have done with pruning in the editing room.

    Owen Van Spall · 2 out of 5
    A musician-turned-martial-artist takes on human traffickers.
  • Ragnarok - The Viking Apocalypse (2014)
    Review preview for Ragnarok - The Viking Apocalypse

    An old fashioned adventure with some great action sequences and a lot of heart.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    An archaeologist takes his kids to explore the remains of a Viking expedition, but what they find is something much more ancient - and still alive.
  • Rag Tale (2005)
    Review preview for Rag Tale

    After 15 minutes of fast zooms, sliced cuts, topsy pans and turvy close ups you want to be sick... after 40 minutes, you have eaten your words and are beginning to think this is original and thrilling.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Poisonous cynicism and manipulative scheming at the heart of a national tabloid.
  • The Raid 2 (2014)
    Review preview for The Raid 2

    The biggest kick up the cinematic arse you're likely to get this year.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    Picking up where the first film left off, The Raid 2 follows Rama as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and expose the corruption in his own police force.
  • The Railroad All-Stars (2006)
    Review preview for The Railroad All-Stars

    One of those festival oddities that will attract TV distributors around the world.

    Chris · 3 out of 5
    Documentary about Guatemalan sex workers who formed a successful football team.
  • Railroad Tigers (2016)
    Review preview for Railroad Tigers

    The peril inherent in the resistance group's situation is leavened by a large helping of slapstick comedy.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A railway worker in China in the Forties leads a group of men against the Japanese to obtain food for the poor.
  • The Railway Children (2000)
    Review preview for The Railway Children

    Nye's adaptation is simply marvellous as he brings new life to the railway and especially everyone's favourite girl, Bobbie, played here by the delightful Rooper.

    Gabriella Trybalska · 4 out of 5
    TV adaptation of the famous story about a family torn apart by circumstance.
  • The Railway Man (2013)
    Review preview for The Railway Man

    It is a story of courage, redemption and forgiveness. And it's true

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    The true story of Eric Lomax, a victim of the Second World War's "Death Railway", who later in life sets out to find the Japanese soldier responsible.
  • Rain (2000)
    Review preview for Rain

    Startlingly original.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3.5 out of 5
    Coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of a family holiday.
  • The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection: Commemorative Edition Volume One (1969-1972) (2007)
    Review preview for The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection: Commemorative Edition Volume One (1969-1972)

    A comprehensive look at the earliest of Fassbinder's films

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Nine-disc box set of the German director's early work.
  • Raising Helen (2004)
    Review preview for Raising Helen

    Those with an IQ higher than Scooby's will run screaming from the cinema.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Kate Hudson inherits three kids while working in a New York modelling agency.
  • Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
    Review preview for Raising Victor Vargas

    The action may be subdued, but emotions touch the wire.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Life and loves of a teenager in New York's lower east side.
  • The Rambler (2013)
    Review preview for The Rambler

    Its intended jokes are mostly unfunny but as it develops, The Rambler contains enough hallucinatory imagery, lifted straight from low-budget sci-fi horror, to boil over with a certain nightmarish feel.

    Michael Pattison · 2.5 out of 5
    An ex-con's impulsive cross country journey leads to the unravelling of strange mysteries.
  • Rambo (2008)
    Review preview for Rambo

    This is brutal stuff, lashings of the old ultraviolence, with rivers of blood shed in the mud and the rain.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Rambo is called out of retirement to rescue kidnapped Christian aid workers from the Burmese jungle.
  • Rambo - First Blood - Part II (1985)
    Review preview for Rambo - First Blood - Part II

    Whatever reality First Blood had is well and truly gone now.

    Gator MacReady · 3 out of 5
    Sly dons his bandana a second time - this time with greatly enhanced body count.
  • The Ramones: End Of The Century (2003)
    Review preview for The Ramones: End Of The Century

    The editing is sloppy, the message blurred, or non-existent.

    Gator MacReady · 2.5 out of 5
    Documentary on the legendary rockers who never had a Top 40 hit.
  • Rampart (2011)
    Review preview for Rampart

    Ultimately the in-your-face style and confusing story stop the emotions from getting truly under your skin.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A dirty cop in LA struggles to keep his job.
  • Rams (2015)
    Review preview for Rams

    Hákonarson proves himself a master of his material - a sort of rural Ken Loach - shooting sparingly yet dramatically against extreme weather conditions.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.
  • Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (2016)
    Review preview for Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman

    The film is stunningly beautiful.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A look inside the quiet revolution being led by ordinary people working the land and sea in the US.
  • Rancid Aluminium (1999)
    Review preview for Rancid Aluminium

    Somewhere in the midst of this chaos the seed of a comic film fails to take root.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    A scheming account tries to swindle his client out of the family business.
  • Randall and Hopkirk Deceased Vol 5 (1969)
    Episodes 15-18 of popular Sixties British TV series about a private eye ghost.
  • Random Hearts (1998)
    Review preview for Random Hearts

    Scott Thomas is a revelation. Few actors work from the inside out with such delicacy and focus.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    After a plane crash exposes his wife's affair with a congresswoman's hubby, Harrison Ford's cop gets on the case.
  • Random Tropical Paradise (2017)
    Review preview for Random Tropical Paradise

    A zero-calorie cocktail complete with umbrella, an instantly forgettable shag in a nightclub toilet, a Eurovision Song Contest semi-final loser.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    When a groom catches his bride to be cheating on him, his best friend offers to take him on honeymoon instead.
  • Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
    Review preview for Rasputin: The Mad Monk

    Lee gives us a flavour of what it might have been like to encounter the man himself.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A wayward biopic of one of history's most astonishing and controversial figures.
  • Ratatouille (2007)
    Review preview for Ratatouille

    Comes as something of a disappointment, this is the first Pixar film that one suspects could have been done live-action.

    Tony Sullivan · 3.5 out of 5
    The best cooked meals of mice and men.
  • Ratchet & Clank (2016)
    Review preview for Ratchet & Clank

    Somewhere the plot hangs by a thread. All you have to do is find it. But you can't

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    The worlds in an unstable galaxy are threatened by a master villain. A happy-go-quite-lucky squirrel of sorts and his mini robot mechanic friend join the defense team
  • Rats And Cats (2008)
    Review preview for Rats And Cats

    It has all the cringe-making laughs one might expect from a comedy of celebrity, but Rats And Cats also achieves a surprising subtlety.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Black comedy about the ugly side of showbiz.
  • Rat Fever (2011)
    Review preview for Rat Fever

    A poem of a film, a thing of intense, erotic beauty whose underlying craft is deftly concealed.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A passionate anarchist who believes in living in the moment comes into conflict with the strangely reticent woman wth whom he falls in love.
  • Rat Film (2016)
    Review preview for Rat Film

    Though it's not altogether successful, it incorporates some fascinating material.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A documentary about the history of Baltimore, told by the rats who make up most of its mammalian population.
  • The Raven (1935)
    Review preview for The Raven

    Both leads are certainly in fine form, with Karloff's more understated approach generating the necessary element of sympathy for his tragic character.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5
    An evil surgeon becomes obsessed with a woman he saves and plots to keep her as his own.
  • The Raven (1963)
    Review preview for The Raven

    Fans of classic horror will thrill to see these two great masters, Price and Karloff, go up against each other.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Two aging wizards feud over a woman.
  • Ravenous (1999)
    Review preview for Ravenous

    Before the script goes belly up, this eating-people-makes-you-strong movie has an hypnotic fascination.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A man turns up at a remote fort, claiming he has escaped cannibals.
  • Ravens (2017)
    Review preview for Ravens

    Assur is adept at creating striking images - such as the shadows of the ravens of the title on a barn wall or the threat of violence posed by a piece of machinery.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A troubled farmer and his family struggle with the hardships of their lives.
  • Raw Deal - A Question of Consent (2000)
    Review preview for Raw Deal - A Question of Consent

    A harrowing and unnerving experience.

    Trinity · 3.5 out of 5
    A disturbing investigation of an alleged rape at a frat house.
  • Ray Charles - Live In Brazil (1963)
    Review preview for Ray Charles - Live In Brazil

    Charles' effortless style and poise is so totally cool, he wows us completely.

    Max Blinkhorn · 4.5 out of 5
    A 32-year-old Ray Charles plays live in Brazil.
  • Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)
    Review preview for Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

    Harryhausen's recollections and anecdotes about the process are a pleasure to see and hear.

    Neil Mitchell · 4 out of 5
    A celebration of the life and work of special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen.
  • Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance (2006)
    Review preview for Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance

    This is one of those films I will tell all my friends they MUST see, especially if they’ve been having a bad year.

    Moominkat · 5 out of 5
    A passionate dance teacher struggles to prepare his disorderly troupe for a big competition.
  • Reaching For The Moon (2013)
    Review preview for Reaching For The Moon

    Barreto's film is a stylish feast for the eyes, registering the nuances of the 50s turning into the 60s.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    The poet Elizabeth Bishop falls in love and finds inspiration.

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