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  • Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
    In this second instalment, Cody Banks jet sets to London, in an attempt to thwart a lethal mind-controlling device.
  • The Carer (2016)
    Review preview for The Carer

    Though it is Cox's turn that grabs, it is Konig's that delights.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    An ageing actor strikes up a relationship with his Hungarian emigre carer.
  • Come Away (2020)
    Review preview for Come Away

    While the film's more nostalgic elements are likely to help to keep adults on board it is also invigorated, not only by Goodhill's unorthodox approach to the works but also by the diverse casting.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Before Alice found Wonderland, and Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their brother dies in an accident, they seek to save their parents from downward spirals until finally they're forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
  • Cold Lazarus (1996)
    Review preview for Cold Lazarus

    Cold Lazarus ends writer Dennis Potter's career on an elegiac note. But, as ever for Potter, this elegy is played out in bitter minor chords.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    In 2368, scientists tap into the memory of a man who died in the 1990s.
  • The Dreamers (2003)
    Review preview for The Dreamers

    Despite full frontals, this is less erotic than scooping shelled shrimps out of aspic with your tongue.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Exploration of love set against a backdrop of the 1968 student riots in Paris.
  • The Happy Prince (2018)
    Review preview for The Happy Prince

    A mixed bag, as while Everett the actor masterfully evokes the mournful mix of decadence and decay of the last years of Wilde, Everett the filmmaker is, like so many before him, too much in love with the brilliant old rogue for his own good.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The last days of Oscar Wilde.
  • Heart (1999)
    Review preview for Heart

    The movie lives in dreamland and ends in nightmare.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    The mum of a heart donor stalks the recipient.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (2005)
    Douglas Adam's classic end of the world comedy finally makes it to the silver screen.
  • Hysteria (2011)
    Review preview for Hysteria

    It's rare to see a film that is at once so playful and so openly political.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of the young doctor who invented the vibrator without understanding what it was really for.
  • Karaoke (1996)
    Review preview for Karaoke

    Underlying everything is a sense of nihilism and borderline amorality in the face of destruction.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    A playwright is struck by cancer while working on the post-production of a TV drama.
  • The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
    Review preview for The Man Who Knew Too Little

    The premise pushes its luck in the street cred dept.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Bill Murray gets mistaken for a spy and mixed up in an assassination plot.
  • St Trinian's (2007)
    Review preview for St Trinian's

    Everett almost single-handedly sustains the film, thanks to a nicely pitched turn as the headmistress with a heart.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Trouble is brewing at the anarchic girls' school thanks to a zealous education minister.
  • What A Girl Wants (2003)
    Review preview for What A Girl Wants

    Dennie Gordon's 2003 version resurrects the worst aspects of English class snobbery in a film that makes you squirm with embarrassment.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Fiesty New York teenage girl comes to London to find her titled missing dad.

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