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  • Creatura (2023)
    Review preview for Creatura

    Trauma here isn’t a switch turned on by a force strong enough to propel it into being, but instead, it’s a slow-burning reflective state.

    Nikola Jovic · 4 out of 5
    A woman realises the source of her trauma and sexual appetite after returning to her coastal-town home.
  • Croupier (2000)
    Review preview for Croupier

    The egocentric nature of the film cleverly disguises what else is going on outside Jack's head.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A despondent novelist becomes hard-edged croupier in London casino.
  • Crown Vic (2019)
    Review preview for Crown Vic

    The action scenes here are well handled and there are some interesting observations about how technological developments have changed the nature of policing.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Over the course of a single night, two police officers at opposite ends of their careers find themselves thrust into a violent hunt for two cop killers on the loose in the Olympic Division of Los Angeles.
  • CSI: Complete Season 9 (2009)
    Review preview for CSI: Complete Season 9

    The anatomy of CSI remains hale and healthy and is, in the ninth season of the show, arguably strengthened by the loss of old characters and the introduction of new ones.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    It's all-change in Vegas as Gil moves on.
  • The Cure (2026)
    Review preview for The Cure

    Problems are always dealt with in the least subtle way possible, by characters and screenwriters alike.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    After making a new friend, the lonely adopted daughter of biotech billionaires becomes suspicious about the cause of the illness she's grown up with.
  • The Curse Of La Llorona (2019)
    Review preview for The Curse Of La Llorona

    The complexity of this multigenerational chiller is difficult to follow and sinks into the darkness of the waves.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A social worker and her family become the target of supernatural malevolence.
  • Celestial Wives Of The Meadow Mari (2013)
    Review preview for Celestial Wives Of The Meadow Mari

    All of it is so beautifully observed it is as waking from a childhood fever to demolish half a volume of Grimm before hallucinatory somnambulance washes once more over.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    An introduction to the customs and rituals of the Volga-Finnic people in Northern Russia.
  • The Champions: The Complete Series Special Edition (1968)
    Review preview for The Champions: The Complete Series Special Edition

    Excels in not taking itself too seriously while offering a refreshingly imaginative collection of adventures.

    Merlin Harries · 4 out of 5
    Sixties series mixing spy and sci-fi gets all-singing, all-dancing release.
  • Charlie White (2004)
    A group of wannabe London socialites overindulge the decadent side of life.
  • Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
    Review preview for Chernobyl Diaries

    An efficient if inauspicious directorial debut with a horror thriller enlivened by spectacularly oppressive location work but hampered by faddish cliches tailored towards its tech-savvy teen target audience.

    David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
    Young holidaymakers get more than they bargain for when they hire an "extreme" tour guide who takes them to the abandoned town where the Chernobyl nuclear reactor employees used to live.
  • Chicken (2014)
    Review preview for Chicken

    Joe Stephenson's directorial debut is a slightly uneven but ultimately moving drama that announces both himself and young actor Scott Chambers as up-and-coming talents to look out for.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Drama about a teenager with learning difficulties and his abusive older brother.
  • The Childhood Of A Leader (2015)
    Review preview for The Childhood Of A Leader

    After all, what’s so sinister about reading Aesop’s Fables? Everything and nothing, Corbet suggests.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Fable about the rise of fascism set in post-First World War Europe.
  • The Chimp (2001)
    Review preview for The Chimp

    Abdkalykov's attention to detail, from watching bugs crawl across floors, to the endless blue of the open sky mark out the qualities of a true visual artist.

    Trinity · 3 out of 5
    A teenage boy confronts adulthood as he waits to join the army.
  • Christmas With The Coopers (2015)
    Review preview for Christmas With The Coopers

    You have no idea how enjoyable this is

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The Coopers are falling apart in different, funny ways. Christmas doesn't help. It tries to paste over the cracks. Yo ho, indeed!
  • The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004)
    Review preview for The Chronicles Of Riddick

    There's a new Conan on the block, and he's in space!

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The continuing story of the escaped convict from the sci-fi thriller Pitch Black.
  • The Chronicles Of Riddick: Director's Cut (2004)
    Review preview for The Chronicles Of Riddick: Director's Cut

    The Director's Cut, as expected, beefs up the storyline with more established characters and small scenes to make sense of previously disorientating sub-plots.

    Gator MacReady · 3.5 out of 5
    David Twohy beefs up his sci-fi fantasy and makes it less disorientating.
  • The Cider House Rules (1999)
    Coming of age story about a boy raised in an orphanage, who seeks answers in an orchard.
  • Citizen Soldier (2016)
    Review preview for Citizen Soldier

    We get a real sense of what it might feel like to be trapped behind a tiny boulder on a hillside targeted by machine guns.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A documentary following a group of US soldiers in Afghanistan.
  • The Closet (2000)
    Daniel Auteuil pretends to be gay to save his job at a condom factory.
  • Complicity (1999)
    An investigative journalist discovers people in his articles are being bumped off by a serial killer.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
    Swashbuckling adaptation of Dumas' story of a vengeful count.
  • Coupling : Complete Series 1 (2001)
    An intelligent sitcom about relationships, sex and friends with six confused thirtysomething Londoners.
  • The Creation Of Meaning (2014)
    Review preview for The Creation Of Meaning

    Sense of memory, sense of history, sense of time, envelop us like a high altitude fog.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    An ageing shepherd's livelihood is threatened by the rise of corruption.
  • Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul (2005)
    Review preview for Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul

    A superb and impassioned documentary.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    The diverse and surprising scope of modern Turkish music sympathetically explored.
  • CSI: Miami - 1.1 (2002)
    A new technical team hunt killers in Miami.
  • CSI: Miami - 1.2 (2002)
    Second part of the second series of the spin-off police procedural drama.
  • CSI: Miami 3.1 (2004)
    The plots are cleverer and the production values higher, as Horatio Caine and his team solve multifaceted mysteries in Miami.
  • CSI: Miami - 4.1 (2005)
    Review preview for CSI: Miami - 4.1

    Like global warming, Miami just gets hotter.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Emotions are running high in the fourth season of the popular crime drama.
  • CSI: Miami - 4.2 (2005)
    Review preview for CSI: Miami - 4.2

    Some of the most explosive episodes the CSI Miami team have put together to date.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Love spells trouble for Horatio in the fourth season of the hit crime procedural show.
  • CSI Miami: Season 2 (2004)
    In which Horatio Caine achieves sainthood and Calleigh Duquesne becomes more hands on.
  • Cuban Fury (2014)
    Review preview for Cuban Fury

    Nick Frost's limited comedic talent cannot stretch to a faux South American dance devil with fire in his heels.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    A former salsa star attempts a comeback.
  • Cut Shoot Kill (2017)
    Review preview for Cut Shoot Kill

    A bit of a one trick pony, the film doesn't really have enough ideas to justify its 98 minute running time, but there are occasional nice touches that add depth and black humour.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    An ambitious young actress takes on her first horror movie, but when people start disappearing for real, she has to become her character in order to survive.
  • Cut Snake (2014)
    Review preview for Cut Snake

    The novel angle it takes is the best thing going for this film, and it is a smart twist to an rote story.

    Luke Shaw · 3 out of 5
    A pair of ex-cons are set on a collision course.
  • Cézanne And I (2016)
    Review preview for Cézanne And I

    It is the two world-famous guys Thompson tries to pin down like butterflies, as if she were a lepidopterist. They escape, of course, because their works are still alive.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    Drama about the friendship between Cézanne and Émile Zola.
  • The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
    Review preview for The Dancer Upstairs

    Where the film really scores is with its brave exploration of the phenomenon of terrorism.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Javier Bardem is the cop who searches for a revolutionary leader in a South American republic.
  • A Dangerous Cure (2014)
    Review preview for A Dangerous Cure

    An alternative gonzo history of the Noughties.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    A tabloid journalist tries to the cause of a life-threatening epidemic in New York
  • The Dark Is Rising (2007)
    Review preview for The Dark Is Rising

    It's important, when criticising some of the more clichéd elements here - the dark versus the light, the Tolkein parallels, the quests - to bear in mind that this film is aimed at older children, not your average jaded film critic.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A teenager discovers he is the earth's last hope in the battle between darkness and light.
  • The Day Of The Beast (1995)
    Review preview for The Day Of The Beast

    The film contains grotesque violence and slapstick humour in a nonetheless affectionate take on the horror genre.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    A Basque priest discovers that the Antichrist is due to be born in Madrid on Christmas Day and sets out to avert the apocalypse with the help of a heavy metal fan and a television psychic.
  • Day One (2015)
    Review preview for Day One

    An intensely visceral film with raw performances from all the main players, Day One will be very hard for many people to watch.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An interpreter, on her first day of working with the US Army in Afghanistan, is called upon to help a woman going through a traumatic childbirth.
  • Danger Close (2019)
    Review preview for Danger Close

    There are good performances made of small moments throughout.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The true story of the Anzac's Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam.
  • The Dare (2019)
    Review preview for The Dare

    The more sophisticated parts of the narrative are developed in flashback and this is where Alderson shows his potential, working particularly well with younger actors and showing a good understanding of the dynamics of childhood.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    When a man awakens in a basement with three other prisoners, he must engage in a twisted battle to solve the puzzle to his past and save his family's future.
  • The Dark (2018)
    Review preview for The Dark

    There's a lot packed into Justin P Lange's downbeat horror fable.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Undead and hating it, young flesh-eater Mina haunts the woods surrounding her childhood home. When she befriends a physically abused boy, she must figure out why, for once, she isn’t feeling homicidal.
  • DarkGame (2024)
    Review preview for DarkGame

    Outside of the Russian Roulette scenes, the film has much more visual appeal, with noirish cinematography and a fluid style which recalls director Howard J Ford’s early work with his brother Jonathan.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A determined detective is in a race against time to stop a dark web game in which captives are forced to compete for their lives.
  • Dark Blue (2002)
    Review preview for Dark Blue

    Feels like the real thing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Corruption amongst the LAPD during the period of street violence after the Rodney King trial.
  • Daughter (2022)
    Review preview for Daughter

    Cleverly shot throughout in a style which contributes to the claustrophobia of the family’s environment and speaks to where power is positioned.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A young woman is inducted into a bizarre family as its new surrogate daughter.
  • Day Of The Dead (1985)
    Review preview for Day Of The Dead

    It's rare for such a talky movie to be so exciting, but the wired performances combine with the visceral effects and confident direction to create an utterly absorbing experience.

    David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
    Trouble flares in a small military base where some of the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse are holding out as scientists search for a solution.
  • Dear Comrades! (2020)
    Review preview for Dear Comrades!

    A tribute to the fallen, and so fine an example of cinematic craft that it ensures they will not quickly be forgotten again.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A devout communist witnesses a government shooting during a strike - which changes her life forever.
  • Death To Metal (2019)
    Review preview for Death To Metal

    Death To Metal has been made by people who understand their audience perfectly.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    After a freak accident, a disturbed priest is transformed into a mutated killing machine on a mission to wipe out the godless fans of heavy metal music.

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