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  • Blue Valentine (2010)
    Review preview for Blue Valentine

    There's potential with no pay-off, desolation with little downslide.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A couple love and lose.
  • Breathe In (2013)
    Review preview for Breathe In

    Director Drake Doremus handles the material superbly, aware of its pitfalls and sensitive to all the vagaries of human behaviour which make these characters so intriguing.

    Robert Munro · 4 out of 5
    The arrival of an exchange student reawakens a middle aged man's musical ambitions.
  • Christmas Eve In Miller's Point (2024)
    Review preview for Christmas Eve In Miller's Point

    The camera drifts through it at a leisurely pace, back and forth, up and down, taking in different details one might when wandering around drunk or half asleep. From these, story and meaning gradually coalesce.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A clan gathers for what could be their last Christmas together at their family home.
  • Just Like Heaven (2005)
    Review preview for Just Like Heaven

    A love story that, despite my sincerest cynicism, allowed me to invest for the slender 90-minute runtime.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    Ghostly love story that explores the difference between bumping into furniture and walking through walls
  • Pi (1998)
    Review preview for Pi

    Pi is a superbly inventive thriller.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A mathematician searches for a code which could explain the universe, but his research attracts some unsavoury interest.
  • Roger Dodger (2002)
    Review preview for Roger Dodger

    The film is all words and attitude.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A chat-up artist takes his teenage nephew on a tour of New York night life.
  • Then She Found Me (2007)
    Review preview for Then She Found Me

    A fertility flick for women whose feet and minds seldom leave the stirrups.

    The Exile · 1.5 out of 5
    A childless teacher takes stock of her life after her husband leaves, her adoptive mum dies and her birth mother shows up.
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
    Review preview for The Trial of the Chicago 7

    This is a clean-cut, old school script that has no time for messy interludes or spare chat, but this is a feature film not a documentary and the polish adds pace.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Retelling of the conspiracy trial that occurred following protests at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention

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