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  • Atomic Blonde (2017)
    Review preview for Atomic Blonde

    The pace squeezes your windpipe; the action pulverises your senses; the plot double crosses your preconception

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent.
  • Aeon Flux (2005)
    Futuristic sci-fi post-animated superagent is acrobatic in her desire to save paradise from reactionary forces.
  • Bombshell (2019)
    Review preview for Bombshell

    Bombshell is a finely crafted film which benefits from one of the best acting ensembles of the year.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
  • The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion (2001)
    Review preview for The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion

    The plot is borrowed from a Sexton Blake penny dreadful, with fresh gags and terrific performances.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    An insurance investigator and efficiency tsarina are hypnotised into a heist.
  • The Cider House Rules (1999)
    Coming of age story about a boy raised in an orphanage, who seeks answers in an orchard.
  • Dark Places (2015)
    Review preview for Dark Places

    Charlize Theron is electrifying

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman revisits the crime that killed her family.
  • Deception (2000)
    Review preview for Deception

    Before getting excited, remember the title. Nothing is as it seems and nothing makes sense.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    An ex-con assumes his dead cellmate's identity and gets caught up in a heist.
  • The Devil's Advocate (1997)
    Review preview for The Devil's Advocate

    A movie like this should be fun, or disturbing. To be neither means that two-and-a-half hours watching Reeves attempt a purposeful expression and Pacino play the diabolical charm card is a long time waiting for cheesy effects and naked bods.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    An upwardly mobile lawyer discovers his boss is the devil in disguise.
  • Hancock (2008)
    Review preview for Hancock

    Smith delivers a characteristically subtle performance in a role which could easily have been played without a hint of self-awareness.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A public relations professional decides to improve the image of a dropout superhero who just can't get things right.
  • In The Valley Of Elah (2007)
    Review preview for In The Valley Of Elah

    Makes no secret about trying to be Chinatown, but surprisingly doesn't come off too badly.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A former soldier investigates the disappearance of his son, who has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.
  • The Italian Job (2003)
    Review preview for The Italian Job

    A standard formulaic thriller, dependent upon technological gizmos, buddy-buddy performances and a totally unbelievable storyline.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    American remake of the classic Sixties Brit heist flick, involving gold ingots and Mini Coopers
  • Kubo And The Two Strings (2016)
    Review preview for Kubo And The Two Strings

    A journey you have never travelled before

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
  • The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers (2004)
    Review preview for The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers

    Schizophrenic in its approach and vicious in its intent.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Critical biopic of The Goon Show master-of-voices who became a Hollywood movie star.
  • The Legend Of Bagger Vance (2000)
    Review preview for The Legend Of Bagger Vance

    Damon has a problem playing down-and-outs. He's so clean cut, three days' growth doesn't fool anyone.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A mythical caddie helps a down-on-his luck golfer.
  • Long Shot (2019)
    Review preview for Long Shot

    The politics are basic if not base and do not fulfil a rich man’s lunch hour.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A journalist unexpectedly reconnects with his babysitter... who is now planning a run for the presidency and hires him as speechwriter.
  • Mighty Joe Young (1998)
    Review preview for Mighty Joe Young

    It is exciting, sentimental, fast moving and utter twaddle.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Adventures of a girl and her gorilla
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    Review preview for Mad Max: Fury Road

    Baroque-n-roll does not begin to describe the petrol-headed delirium on offer here.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    In a post-Apocalyptic world, survivor Max hooks up with a mysterious woman to face off against murderous gangs.
  • Men Of Honor (2000)
    Review preview for Men Of Honor

    Cliches are dropped like depth charges into the belly of the life.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Biopic of the first African American Navy diver.
  • Monster (2003)
    Review preview for Monster

    Construed by some as a blatant feminist sympathy trip, Theron's performance is a tour de force, picking up Jenkins's contentious baton with extreme gusto.

    David Stanners · 4 out of 5
    Dramatised version of the life of serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
  • North Country (2005)
    Review preview for North Country

    What finally raises the film above its somewhat programmatic, fight-the-power formula is its willingness to provide a believable context for the abuse.

    The Exile · 4 out of 5
    One woman fights sexual harassment in the mines of Northern Minnesota.
  • The Odyssey (2026)
    Review preview for The Odyssey

    This retelling is the one you seek.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, the sirens and Calypso along the way.
  • Prometheus (2012)
    Review preview for Prometheus

    This big-screen epic is immersive less for its binocular vistas than for their impossibly grand scale

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Exploration to the dark reaches of space, to discover the origins of mankind. It doesn't go well.
  • The Road (2009)
    Review preview for The Road

    Pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    An unnamed father and son travel through a post-apocalyptic America in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
  • Snow White And The Huntsman (2012)
    Review preview for Snow White And The Huntsman

    A gripping, exhilarating rollick through a medieval wasteland.

    Merlin Harries · 4 out of 5
    The huntsman ordered by a jealous queen to kill the young princess Snow White instead trains her as a warrior who can lead a rebel army.
  • Sweet November (2001)
    Review preview for Sweet November

    The story is so predictable you wait for that running-through-the-spray on the beach scene with dread and could choose the girly ballads on the soundtrack with pinpoint accuracy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    A zany blonde with a mysterious illness invites a workaholic ad exec to live with her for a month.
  • Tully (2018)
    Review preview for Tully

    Making a movie about a suffering mother who cannot admit that her tether has snapped is a brave endeavor

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    The exhaustion of being a wife, mother and now having another baby is saved by a young, optimistic, attractive night nanny who loves everything, especially her job
  • The Yards (2000)
    A murder cover up set against the backdrop of corruption on the New York Subway.
  • Young Adult (2011)
    Review preview for Young Adult

    The script by Diablo Cody is a real gem, painful and darkly funny throughout.

    Donald Munro · 4.5 out of 5
    Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.

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