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  • The Sweeney (2012)
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    The perfunctory plot is much less of a serious crime than The Sweeney's worst offences, however - that it feels dated and, for all its surface gruffness, pretty daft.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    The Flying Squad investigate after a robbery turns sour.
  • The Sweeney: Paris (2015)
    Review preview for The Sweeney: Paris

    It suffers from an air of deja vu.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    French remake sees the squad try to catch a gang of jewel thieves.
  • The Sweetest Thing (2002)
    Review preview for The Sweetest Thing

    There is no story that goes deeper than a soundbite.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    How to get laid without getting trapped from the perspective of three single girls.
  • Sweetgrass (2009)
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    It plunges you right into a Midwest midwinter, where wind and snow scour a starkly beautiful landscape and a built-in woolly jumper is a prerequisite for survival.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    A year in the life of a flock of sheep and the people who tend to them.
  • Sweethearts Of The Prison Rodeo (2009)
    Review preview for Sweethearts Of The Prison Rodeo

    Beesley uses his conventional frame to cast light on people who normally have no voice, on issues that have few public champions and on 'inside' perspectives that invert expectation.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary tracks the preparations for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo in the second year that female cons are allowed to take part.
  • Sweet Bean (2015)
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    An intimate and immensely moving portrait of three lost people who come together and learn to find some direction in their lives.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A baker forms a bond with an elderly woman over their love of pastry.
  • Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
    Review preview for Sweet Home Alabama

    The film is so false, it's all cardboard and frills.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Reese Witherspoon is a New York fashion designer, with a downhome Southern past.
  • Sweet Land (2005)
    Review preview for Sweet Land

    Beautifully photographed.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A young German immigrant tries to make a place for herself in a suspicious 1920s American farming community.
  • Sweet November (2001)
    Review preview for Sweet November

    The story is so predictable you wait for that running-through-the-spray on the beach scene with dread and could choose the girly ballads on the soundtrack with pinpoint accuracy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    A zany blonde with a mysterious illness invites a workaholic ad exec to live with her for a month.
  • Sweet Sixteen (2002)
    Review preview for Sweet Sixteen

    Laverty's script is so bare of sentiment, it hurts.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Scottish teenager becomes drug dealer to give his mum, who is in jail, a proper home.
  • Sweet Virginia (2017)
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    Sweet Virginia is a simple story told very, very well.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A burglary-homicide rattles the residents of a small Alaska town.
  • The Swell Season (2011)
    Review preview for The Swell Season

    While the film may be monochrome, every colour of emotion is represented here, from elation in the creative process to anxiousness and disillusionment.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary following the songwriters and stars of Once, after their triumphant Oscar win.
  • Swerve (2011)
    Review preview for Swerve

    Despite a solid cast and good use of location, we really have been here many times before, regardless of how many twists Lahiff compounds to get us there.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Thriller, sees the paths of a drug dealer, a dissatisfied wife, a straight up ex-soldier and a psychotic cop collide.
  • Swimming Upstream (2003)
    Review preview for Swimming Upstream

    The performances are excellent, with Spencer conveying the emotions and suffering Tony endures admirably and Rush, as his alcoholic, abusive father is wonderful.

    Darren Amner · 3.5 out of 5
    Drama, based on the true-life story of Aussie swimmer Tony Fingleton.
  • Swim Team (2016)
    Review preview for Swim Team

    Its real achievement is the skill with which it balances its inspirational message with an honest portrait of day to day life and what it means to be an athlete.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The Jersey Hammerheads is a competitive swim team made up of a diverse group of teens on the autism spectrum.
  • Swing Time (1936)
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    Rightly regarded as Fred and Ginger’s greatest movie together.

    Chris · 5 out of 5
    A gambler trying to win the money to marry his fiancee inadvertently falls for a dancer.
  • Switchblade Romance (2003)
    Review preview for Switchblade Romance

    The seriousness of their approach overcomes the merest suggestion of parody.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Two girlfriends are terrorised by a serial killer in the French countryside.
  • The Swordsman (1990)
    Review preview for The Swordsman

    It can be hard to keep tabs on the various characters and factions and their relationships with one another... but this is perhaps part and parcel of the process of adapting any multi-volume fantasy epic.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5
    Martial arts action extravaganza in the style of the Hong Kong greats.
  • Sword Master (2016)
    Review preview for Sword Master

    Without that old roughness, this film creates no friction. It glides by so smoothly that one barely even notices it.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A highly skilled warrior tries to give up bloodshed but cannot escape his past.
  • Sword Of Doom (1966)
    Review preview for Sword Of Doom

    Flawed, but stylish, Sword Of Doom is worth seeing if only for it's obvious contribution to recent cinema.

    Emma Slawinski · 3 out of 5
    Dark tale of a lone, deadly samurai.
  • Sword Of Vengeance (2015)
    Review preview for Sword Of Vengeance

    Weber's work is carefully choreographed and will please fans of fighting films even if it does sometimes take liberties with physics.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A mysterious warrior comes to the aid of a people under threat in the Dark Ages.
  • Sworn Virgin (2015)
    Review preview for Sworn Virgin

    Bispuri is interested in how escape from one form of repression seamlessly flows into another.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman who has taken an oath to live as a man rediscovers her sexuality.
  • Swung (2015)
    Review preview for Swung

    Anya's performance as Alice does enough to keep the film interesting throughout.

    Robert Munro · 2.5 out of 5
    A relationship is taken to its emotional and sexual limits.
  • Sydney White (2007)
    Review preview for Sydney White

    Despite its inevitability, it is a really likeable film.

    Caro Ness · 3.5 out of 5
    Snow White gets a modern makeover.
  • Sylvia (2003)
    Review preview for Sylvia

    Gwyneth Paltrow gives a brave, uncompromised performance that does not shrink from the self-possessed obsessions of a selfish mind.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The psychologically damaging marriage of two poets in the Sixties.
  • Symbol (2010)
    Review preview for Symbol

    The film appears to be trying to work on some higher metaphorical level where conventional narrative is not needed, and it is up to audiences to carefully unpick what ideas and themes are being offered up without any real guidance.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    A man finds himself trapped in a plain white room where strange symbols appear in response to his actions.
  • Synecdoche, New York (2008)
    Review preview for Synecdoche, New York

    Mainstream audiences may hate and critics may debate, but Synecdoche is a work of unmitigated, undisciplined genius.

    The Exile · 5 out of 5
    The story of a theatre director's drive to produce his masterwork.
  • S Club Seeing Double (2003)
    Review preview for S Club Seeing Double

    When the band put their minds to it, or their choreographers do, they can certainly deliver a manufactured 21st century package.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    S Club have been cloned by a spooky scientist and so they fly to LA to sort it out.

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