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  • The Colony (2015)
    Review preview for The Colony

    The film does entertain, even excite at times, but it never creates a sustained atmosphere of dread.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A woman's search for her abducted boyfriend finds herself drawn into an infamous sect.
  • The Counterfeiters (2007)
    Review preview for The Counterfeiters

    The tension and sense of death is like a physical barrier to sanity’s guiding hand.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Surviving the holocaust by forgery.
  • Mostly Martha (2001)
    Review preview for Mostly Martha

    Writer/director Sandra Nettlebeck has created a film of genuine delight, with a subtlety that could only be European.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The chef who likes her own way is turned upside down by a stroppy niece and a flirtatious Italian.
  • Tara Road (2005)
    Review preview for Tara Road

    The plot is as real as a bouquet of silk roses.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Love hurts for an innocent wife in Dublin and a grieving mother in New England.
  • Taking Sides (2001)
    Review preview for Taking Sides

    While admiring the motives for resurrecting the Furtwangler case, it is difficult to feel sympathy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An American Major interrogates the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1945.

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