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  • Bad Behaviour (2023)
    Review preview for Bad Behaviour

    Englert’s script is an actor’s dream. Connelly, who has matured magnificently in recent years and now ranks among the best in her generation, gives it all she’s got.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
  • Brideshead Revisited (2008)
    Review preview for Brideshead Revisited

    A jewel unpolished is still a jewel, and there are treasures here for those patient enough to seek them out.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A man reflects on his conflicting passions for a brother and sister whose lives were dominated by Catholic guilt.
  • Bright Star (2009)
    Review preview for Bright Star

    A poignant and rewarding tale.

    Jeff Robson · 4 out of 5
    The poet John Keats meets the woman who is to become the love of his life.
  • Cloud Atlas (2012)
    Review preview for Cloud Atlas

    This is a film that will be enjoyed most by people who haven't seen many other films.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    The story of souls across the centuries.
  • The Danish Girl (2015)
    Review preview for The Danish Girl

    This is a story of artists and models, the common outsider's perception that art is about creating fantasies, the much more challenging reality that it's about drawing out truth.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe.
  • Good Boy (2023)
    Review preview for Good Boy

    Love, loss and laughter come together.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A man's plans go awry thanks to his mum.
  • A Hologram For The King (2016)
    Review preview for A Hologram For The King

    The film looks great if you like sand

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A middle aged salesman is sent to Saudi Arabia to sell a complicated IT system to the king and comes up against interminable delays and the prospect of terminal failure
  • I'm Not There (2007)
    Review preview for I'm Not There

    A beautifully shot, brilliantly acted incoherent mess, ranking up there with David Lynch’s Inland Empire as one of the most inscrutable films of the year.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Experimental biopic examining the shifting persona of Bob Dylan throughout his career.
  • In The Heart Of The Sea (2015)
    Review preview for In The Heart Of The Sea

    Class and experience divisions form the bulk of the interpersonal drama and it’s as predictable as expected, with the added tedium of Hemsworth apparently defaulting back to weirdly out of place Asgardian diction, bellowing like Thor at every little thing

    Luke Shaw · 2.5 out of 5
    Recounting of the tale that went on to inspire Moby Dick.
  • Lilting (2014)
    Review preview for Lilting

    Although the pacing is sometimes poor, the sentiment - while occasionally straying towards the sentimental - is heartfelt and sweet spirited.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A bereaved mother and the boyfriend of her son find a connection.
  • Little Joe (2019)
    Review preview for Little Joe

    If you're going to do science fiction, you really need to get the science right, because otherwise all you're doing is attacking straw men.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination?
  • The Lobster (2015)
    Review preview for The Lobster

    Lanthimos satirises our obsession with relationships and modern day electronic dating rituals although the results are not nearly as funny and knowing as the director clearly thinks.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    In a dystopian near future, single people are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days or are transformed into animals and released into the woods.
  • Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
    Review preview for Mary Poppins Returns

    The stakes are high and the fears tangible in this return, which invites discussion and doesn't protect parents from uncomfortable questions. This is the power of the film. Mary Poppins herself wouldn't want it any other way.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins at a difficult time.
  • My Brother Tom (2001)
    Review preview for My Brother Tom

    The young actors, making their first movie, take risks beyond the call of duty.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Two school loners fall in love.
  • Nathan Barley (2005)
    Review preview for Nathan Barley

    Its first two episodes suffer from a lethargic lack of quality drama and comedy, but from episode three onwards, it digs its heels in and occasionally stuns with cleverly observed satire.

    Scott Macdonald · 2.5 out of 5
    TV sitcom that satirises celebrity media types and pretentious art.
  • No Time To Die (2021)
    Review preview for No Time To Die

    No Time To Die might not save cinemas, but it will keep Bond going.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
  • Paddington (2014)
    Review preview for Paddington

    Paddington is irresistible, funny and smartly constructed with a disarmingly big heart.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A small bear from darkest Peru tries to adjust to life in London.
  • Paddington 2 (2017)
    Review preview for Paddington 2

    This is exactly what a sequel should be, respectful, goose bumpy and warm hearted

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Paddington gets into a scrape over his Aunt Lucy's birthday present.
  • Passages (2023)
    Review preview for Passages

    One of the most subtle films of the ongoing year.

    Levan Tskhovrebadze · 3.5 out of 5
    A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.
  • The Personal History Of David Copperfield (2019)
    Review preview for The Personal History Of David Copperfield

    It would be difficult to find anything but goodness in Copperfield's personal history and a delight in the way things turn and turn again.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Retelling of the Dickens classic.
  • Peter Hujar's Day (2025)
    Review preview for Peter Hujar's Day

    Wishaw is an absolute wonder, delivering the conversational, sometimes stream-of-consciousness dialogue with a constantly engaging, almost hypnotic cadence.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.
  • Skyfall (2012)
    Review preview for Skyfall

    This is the best-looking Bond film ever made.

    Max Crawford · 5 out of 5
    Things get personal as James Bond has to defend MI6.
  • Spectre (2015)
    Review preview for Spectre

    The ultimate catch is that Spectre is no longer the villainous outsider. Their badness is corporate: its core, global surveillance and information technology.

    Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
    A message from Bond's past sends him on the trail of a sinister organisation.
  • Suffragette (2015)
    Review preview for Suffragette

    All message and no massage

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Story of the early feminist movement.
  • The Tempest (2010)
    Review preview for The Tempest

    Changing the main character's sex from a man to a woman is the most obvious and radical idea Taymor brings to the table, and it succeeds in deepening several of the piece's key relationships.

    David Graham · 2 out of 5
    Usurped by her brother, Prospera lives in exile with her daughter and faces a power struggle against the monstrous Caliban.
  • Teenage (2013)
    Review preview for Teenage

    With impressively sourced archive footage, much of it in colour, the film presents a fair overview of its subject and finds time for laughs even in stories with tragic endings.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A social history of the teenager.
  • Women Talking (2022)
    Review preview for Women Talking

    Polley has crammed in a lot of good ideas, but they cannot all usefully share the same space.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A group of women from a remote religious community deal with the aftermath of sexual assault perpetrated by the colony’s men.
  • The Zero Theorem (2013)
    Review preview for The Zero Theorem

    The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A reclusive computer genius, plagued with existential angst, works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the meaning of life.

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