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  • 21 Grams (2003)
    Review preview for 21 Grams

    An equal, not a sequel from one of cinema's brightest hopes.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 4 out of 5
    The lives of a junkie and ex-con and a college professor intersect.
  • The Almond And The Seahorse (2022)
    Review preview for The Almond And The Seahorse

    The Almond And The Seahorse gradually coalesces like the pieces of an old memory coming back together.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An archaeologist and an architect fight to re-imagine a future after traumatic brain injury leaves them adrift from the people they love.
  • Antichrist (2009)
    Review preview for Antichrist

    The main horror element is a deep psychological manipulation that stays with you for days afterwards.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A couple whose child has died retreat into the woods and discover very dark things.
  • The Golden Door (2006)
    Review preview for The Golden Door

    A deeply evocative piece of film-making.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Early in the 20th century, hard-working peasant Salvatore takes his family to the New World in search of a better life.
  • Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
    Review preview for Ismael's Ghosts

    The writer-director takes great enjoyment in playing around with his various obsessions.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A filmmaker's life becomes complicated by the return of a former lover.
  • Ismael's Ghosts: Director's Cut (2017)
    Review preview for Ismael's Ghosts: Director's Cut

    How does Ismael have the derring-do to believe that all these women are there, like a bouquet, for him to choose from? He is an artist, of course, who creates his own reality.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    A filmmaker's life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
  • Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
    Review preview for Independence Day: Resurgence

    The new blood get to run around saving the world in a largely unremarkable fashion.

    Luke Shaw · 2 out of 5
    Two decades after Independence Day, the aliens return to have another go. Humans have prepared for this event, but so have they.
  • I Do (2006)
    Review preview for I Do

    Far from caring much if he will ever get his girl, you just want Luis to act his age and grow some balls.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    A single man hatches a plan for a marriage of convenience and gets more than he bargained for.
  • Jane By Charlotte (2021)
    Review preview for Jane By Charlotte

    The closer and more personal this documentary gets, the more it opens up to the largest of issues.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    The director's portrait of her mother.
  • Lemming (2005)
    Review preview for Lemming

    Moll can hold his own, offering in Lemming a death-defying leap into the angst-ridden psyches of the modern couple.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    A French angle, with David Lynch references, to the surreal underbelly of bourgeois marriages.
  • Love, Etc (1996)
    ETCETERA covers a multitude of emotions - pain, anger, jealousy, sadness. The loneliness of the long distant lover and the isolation of the cuckolded husband. Relationships? Who wants them?|Everyone believes...
  • Ma Femme Est Une Actrice (2002)
    Review preview for Ma Femme Est Une Actrice

    This is a trivial conceit, with a certain charm.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Comedy about fidelity in which a man becomes worried his actress wife is having an affair with a co-star.
  • Les Miserables (2000)
    Review preview for Les Miserables

    The production's lavish attention to detail in its recreation of the poverty and luxury of the time shows up crisply on this DVD, which is a visual feast.

    Andrea Mullaney · 3.5 out of 5
    Rise and fall of ex-housebreaker who becomes mayor during the period of the French revolution.
  • Melancholia (2011)
    Review preview for Melancholia

    Lars von Trier's sublime invitation to the end of the world is a grand film by a master story teller who does not repeat himself.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Two sisters' relationship is examined as a planet threatens to bring about the apocalypse.
  • Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer (2016)
    Review preview for Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer

    Cedar aims for emotional truth through visceral recognition and he succeeds in feeding our desire to understand what makes humans do the things we do.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A fixer falls in with a rising Israeli politician and is soon trying to bluff his way into the big time.
  • Nymphomaniac (2013)
    Review preview for Nymphomaniac

    It's a film that goes out of its way to provoke and disappoint, but to those who get its jokes and can cope with the rest, it's a delight.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her experiences.
  • The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
    Review preview for The Phoenician Scheme

    The real challenge is to keep up with the pace as well as the information overload.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    The story of a family and a family business.
  • Samba (2014)
    Review preview for Samba

    The film has all the bullet points for audience approval and yet somehow falls short

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs...
  • The Science Of Sleep (2006)
    Review preview for The Science Of Sleep

    A visual treat.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A man's mind goes into over-drive as he tries to woo the woman of his dreams.

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