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  • The Commitments (1991)
    Review preview for The Commitments

    16-year-old Andrew Strong has a voice that blows your socks off

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The trials and tribulations of a budding working-class Dublin soul band.
  • Dance First (2023)
    Review preview for Dance First

    While offering some notion of Beckett’s feelings towards key people in his life, his works feel very underrepresented.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Biopic of author and playwright Samuel Beckett.
  • Divorcing Jack (1998)
    Comedy thriller, a newspaper columnist finds himself on the run from the local Northern Ireland hardman.
  • The End (2024)
    Review preview for The End

    It’s ironic that a film about a family who have built a perfect facsimile of a life for themselves should feel so overly constructed itself

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    After the sudden arrival of a stranger, Girl, threatens Mother and Father's family’s luxurious compound deep underground, Son begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
  • Grabbers (2012)
    Review preview for Grabbers

    Grabbers is a thoroughly charming and welcome blend of terror and blarney.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    A small island community is terrorised by monsters from the sea.
  • Malice In Wonderland (2009)
    Review preview for Malice In Wonderland

    The off-kilter predicaments at times feel like increasingly disconnected sketches and the narrative, for the most part, just wanders along as wide-eyed and disorientated as Alice herself.

    James Gracey · 3 out of 5
    Lewis Carrol's Alice gets a gangster makeover.
  • Painted Angels (1999)
    Review preview for Painted Angels

    The pace is slow, as you would expect, and the prospects for the prostitutes sad beyond belief.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The brutal life of prostitutes in a wild west cathouse.
  • 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.
  • Shooting For Socrates (2014)
    Review preview for Shooting For Socrates

    It's fairly formulaic, but it delivers a fair tribute for fans who remember how those days felt, and an important, if simplistic, picture of a time and place.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    The story of Northern Ireland's 1986 World Cup bid and its influence on the folks back home.
  • Tamara Drewe (2010)
    Review preview for Tamara Drewe

    With a pitch-perfect main cast, snappy dialogue, and a swift pace, it may not be Frears' best but it makes few false moves either.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    A columnist returns to her childhood home... but while she was away she has been transformed from an ugly duckling into a seriously sexy swan.
  • 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.
  • This Year's Love (1999)
    Review preview for This Year's Love

    The acting has a richness that sparkles.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Musical beds in Camden Town.
  • Wild About Harry (2000)
    Review preview for Wild About Harry

    Warm-hearted but wayward.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A popular TV chef, on the brink of divorce, loses his memory and falls in love again.

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