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  • Chicken Run (2000)
    Review preview for Chicken Run

    The beauty of Chicken Run is its refusal to accept modernity as having squatting rights in a Yorkshire state of mind. Park's heart is with the comics his dad read.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Plucky chicken caper sees farm birds bid for freedom.
  • Scenes Of A Sexual Nature (2006)
    Review preview for Scenes Of A Sexual Nature

    Light and dissatisfying.

    Paul Griffiths · 2.5 out of 5
    Everyone's at it on Hampstead Heath.
  • The Sweeney: Series One (1975)
    Review preview for The Sweeney: Series One

    Subtextually The Sweeney is about police corruption and malpractice. On the surface it stays withing the broadcasting code of the time.

    Donald Munro · 4 out of 5
    Jack Regan and George Carter are hard-edged detectives in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police. They pursue villains by methods which are underhanded and often illegal, frequently violent and - more often than not - successful.

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