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  • 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.
  • Gregory's Two Girls (1998)
    Review preview for Gregory's Two Girls

    The problem lies with the script, which is credibility shy and littered with loose ends.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Gregory as schoolteacher, 20 years on from Forsyth's original, fantasises about a pupil while a fellow teacher tries to win his heart.
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
    Review preview for I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

    Owen is fine when looking moody, but not so good when given dialogue - it seems too staged, too deliberate.

    Trinity · 3 out of 5
    Once a gangster, always a gangster?
  • London To Brighton (2006)
    Review preview for London To Brighton

    Verbally, physically and emotionally brutal. You'll come out melted like ice cream.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Two prostitutes flee a murderous gang boss.
  • Shell (2006)
    Review preview for Shell

    The expectation of desperate passion, or bloody horror, is dashed.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A girl, a truck stop, a long way away. Showing at EIFF 2007 - UK Shorts 1
  • Valhalla Rising (2009)
    Review preview for Valhalla Rising

    The difficulty with sustaining intensity for any period of time is that it so easily becomes ridiculous, but there is absolutely nothing in this brutal, at times violent film that will have you laughing.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Early medieval epic about a mute warrior who escapes his captors with the slave who tends him.

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