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  • 25th Hour (2002)
    Review preview for 25th Hour

    No filmmaker since Woody Allen has loved New York like this, but Lee is prepared to show it in all its stark ugliness.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A drug dealer Edward Norton has 24 hours to make amends with his high school buddies.
  • Battlefield Earth (1999)
    Review preview for Battlefield Earth

    Travolta doesn't seem to care what this might do to his fan base.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Slave rebellion... with added turkey.
  • Broken City (2013)
    Review preview for Broken City

    The cardboard characters' motivations and agendas are clearly signposted, often in unintentionally hilarious ways.

    Owen Van Spall · 2 out of 5
    A private detective gets caught up in a conspiracy involving elected officials and murder.
  • Enemy Of The State (1998)
    Review preview for Enemy Of The State

    If you like thrillers high roasted, this will keep you awake.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A wildlife ranger gets caught up in a political conspiracy.
  • Flags Of Our Fathers (2006)
    Review preview for Flags Of Our Fathers

    Flags Of Our Fathers does a helluva job.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    America, struggling to finance its war against Japan, needs heroes so badly that it is willing to sacrifice the truth.
  • The Green Mile (1999)
    Review preview for The Green Mile

    The film is as soft as butter. Sentimentality clogs the air ducts until it is difficult to breathe.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A prison guard's relationship with a death row prisoner. Now out to own on Special Edition two-disc DVD.
  • The Lone Ranger (2013)
    Review preview for The Lone Ranger

    You can't help feeling British audiences may well embrace the film's oddness - and blatant anti-American stance - which while not always successfully executed, means there is rarely a dull moment.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The masked hero and his sidekick ride again.
  • Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
    Review preview for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

    Fear can't touch you if you don't care

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.
  • Monster Trucks (2016)
    Review preview for Monster Trucks

    The plot is bonkers, the characters charming and the baddies brutally blunt

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A truck driving giant octopus makes friends with a teen mechanic to outrun the bad people from The Factory
  • The Painted Bird (2019)
    Review preview for The Painted Bird

    Smutný gives us faces that will stories even when they're still, the weight of long experience etched into every line.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A lone Jewish boy has to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    Review preview for Saving Private Ryan

    Spielberg is a consummate filmmaker, consistently surpassing himself, stretching his imaginative and technical abilities beyond what he knows, or has done before.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    From Omaha Beach on D-Day, they search for a lost soldier in the fields of France.
  • Seven Pounds (2008)
    Review preview for Seven Pounds

    It’s refreshing to see an unconventional plot in a Hollywood feature, especially with an actor such as Smith involved.

    Rick Derisz · 3.5 out of 5
    A man tries to atone for the lives he took accidentally by sacrificing himself for seven others before dying.
  • Snitch (2013)
    Review preview for Snitch

    A serious pile of nonsense.

    Max Crawford · 2 out of 5
    A father goes undercover for the DEA in exchange for the release of his wrongfully imprisoned son.
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
    Review preview for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

    Ambitious, but also deeply flawed.

    Sarah Artt · 3 out of 5
    A Texas ranch herd crosses the border by mule with a hostage and a corpse.
  • True Grit (2010)
    Review preview for True Grit

    Where Roberts' screenplay opted at times for easy sentiment the Coens' writing is not only wittier but also as chilly as a late Oklahoma autumn.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A young girl seeks out a lawman to hunt down the killer of her father.
  • Unknown (2006)
    Review preview for Unknown

    A smart, twisty little thriller of the sort which don't come along very often.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Five men wake up in a deserted warehouse with no memories. There has been a kidnapping - but who committed it, and who are the victims?
  • We Were Soldiers (2001)
    Review preview for We Were Soldiers

    A true fan is reluctant to give up on a movie and yet 20 minutes into this, the need to escape is almost irresistible.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Mel Gibson leads 400 men into a Vietnam ambush and fights his way out again.

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