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  • Virgin Territory (2007)
    Review preview for Virgin Territory

    Littered with sexual innuendo that is about as funny as drowning kittens.

    Darren Amner · 1 out of 5
    A young buck in mediaeval Italy tries to rescue his love from the clutches of a dastardly Tim Roth... at the same time as avoiding the plague.
  • The Voices (2020)
    Review preview for The Voices

    Some of the acting is just atrocious.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A young, pregnant, blind woman hears the voices of souls which want to be reborn in her baby, and gets caught up in a cold case concerning the disappearance of a five-year-old girl.
  • Vox Lux (2018)
    Review preview for Vox Lux

    Even its vapidity fails to contribute anything new to the subject matter it's dealing with.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A survivor of a school shooting goes on to become a pop star.
  • The Watcher (2000)
    Review preview for The Watcher

    Money is wasted on explosions and stunts when it should have been given to a script doctor.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A serial killer plays murder games with burnt-out FBI agent in Chicago.
  • Water For Elephants (2011)
    Review preview for Water For Elephants

    The film’s an unashamedly full-on exercise in manipulating your emotions, giving you an event every five minutes and keeping Kleenex in business.

    Jeff Robson · 3 out of 5
    An old man recounts his experiences with a travelling circus in the 1930s – and his love for the ringmaster’s wife.
  • The Wave (2008)
    Review preview for The Wave

    The message is clear and the message is strong: How To Build A Fascist Movement works.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A high school teacher demonstrates with his class the true meaning of autocracy.
  • Way Of The Morris (2011)
    Review preview for Way Of The Morris

    Though a little slow in places and modest in ambition, Plester's film is a real charmer.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A personal journey into one small village's experience of the Morris dancing tradition and the losses of the First World War.
  • W.E. (2011)
    Review preview for W.E.

    Watching the film, which refreshingly tells the story from Wallis's perspective, you begin to wonder what on earth Madonna was thinking when she decided to tack on a framing device involving a modern Manhattanite's abusive relationship.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Romantic drama spread across two time periods to tell the story of Wallis Simpson's love affair with Edward VIII.
  • The Weather Man (2005)
    Review preview for The Weather Man

    A look at the commonest fear nipping at the heart of Middle America. Not the war in Iraq, nor terrorism, but the breakdown of the family unit and how - and, indeed, if - people can cope with it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    How to make a fractured family work without falling apart.
  • Wedding Crashers (2005)
    Review preview for Wedding Crashers

    Will have you laughing until you're sore.

    John Gallagher · 4 out of 5
    A womanising duo, who specialise in trawling weddings, take on their last, hilarious challenge.
  • Wedding Daze (2006)
    Review preview for Wedding Daze

    The movie is so rotten, so lazy and so ineffective - it can only lower the IQ, or raise the critical barrier for anyone who sees it.

    Scott Macdonald · 1 out of 5
    Hopeless romantic comedy about imperfect beings.
  • The Wedding Invitation (2017)
    Review preview for The Wedding Invitation

    It is thoroughly endearing: a Jane Austen for modern times, exploring women and friendship in a way we rarely get to see on screen.

    Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
    Three women try to find dates for the wedding event of the year.
  • Welcome To Mooseport (2004)
    Review preview for Welcome To Mooseport

    A middle of the road rom-com, with decent laughs sprinkled throughout.

    David Stanners · 3 out of 5
    Small town comedy romance, featuring a former US president pitted against a blue collar worker for mayor.
  • Wetlands (2017)
    Review preview for Wetlands

    Barry Markowitz's cinematography makes the bleak marshland look hauntingly beautiful throughout, without ever relieving the sense of natural menace that hangs over the film.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A police detective tries to adjust to life back on the beat as a late season hurricane threatens to destroy the area where he's working.
  • We Are Marshall (2006)
    Review preview for We Are Marshall

    A straightforward, by-the-numbers sports movie designed to boost Kleenex sales.

    Stephen Carty · 2.5 out of 5
    After the players and staff of a high school football team are killed in a plane crash, a coach is brought in to rebuild the squad in honour of the dead.
  • Whacked (2002)
    Review preview for Whacked

    Avoids the traditional booby traps and retains an energetic pace throughout.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A crime bosses missus steps in to take the reins when her husband starts to lose it.
  • What A Girl Wants (2003)
    Review preview for What A Girl Wants

    Dennie Gordon's 2003 version resurrects the worst aspects of English class snobbery in a film that makes you squirm with embarrassment.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Fiesty New York teenage girl comes to London to find her titled missing dad.
  • What To Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
    Review preview for What To Expect When You're Expecting

    Clichéd, predictable and hugely sexist.

    Stephen Carty · 1.5 out of 5
    Ensemble comedy about pregnant couples.
  • When Evil Calls (2006)
    Review preview for When Evil Calls

    If Evils calls, my advice would be not to pick up.

    Darren Amner · 2 out of 5
    Clowning around with people's wishes.
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
    Review preview for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

    The film exposes the haphazard working practices of TV journalism in dangerous places

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan.
  • White Bird In A Blizzard (2014)
    Review preview for White Bird In A Blizzard

    Araki never digs deep enough, wasting the opportunity to expose her resentments.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A teenager's life is thrown into turmoil when her mother disappears.
  • Who's Got The Black Box? (1967)
    Review preview for Who's Got The Black Box?

    It looks like a comic book pastiche of an idea by Ian Fleming’s chauffeur.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    An action spy spoof in Greece, with Jean Seberg and men with bad haircuts. Out to own as part of .
  • The Wicker Man: The Final Cut (2013)
    Review preview for The Wicker Man: The Final Cut

    [The new footage] doesn’t severely blunt, and in some other cases enhances, the impact of a film that yields more with every viewing.

    Jeff Robson · 4.5 out of 5
    A policeman gets more than he bargained for on a remote Scottish isle - now in a new, restored version with additional footage.
  • Wicker Park (2004)
    Review preview for Wicker Park

    Indulges a form of slow motion romantic slush that smoothes the rough edges and gives the film a polished sheen to disguise its mediocrity.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Love triangle in Chicago turns into a slow motion flashback puzzle.
  • The Widow of Saint-Pierre (1999)
    Review preview for The Widow of Saint-Pierre

    The beauty of the look of the film is matched by the intensity and nuance between Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, playing together for the first time.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Repressed passions flare in French island off Nova Scotia in mid 19th century.
  • Wild Side (1995)
    Review preview for Wild Side

    The performances electrify.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A banker who moonlights as a call girl gets caught up in the life of a moneylaunderer and his wife.
  • Wimbledon (2004)
    Review preview for Wimbledon

    Consistently funny.

    David Haviland · 3.5 out of 5
    30-love and one set of jokes adds an air of romance to the serious business of tennis.
  • Windtalkers (2002)
    Review preview for Windtalkers

    John Woo specialises in the spectacle of violent death and, after a while, this becomes monotonous.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Nicolas Cage babysits radio operators during at attack on a Japanese island in WWII.
  • The Wire: Season Two (2003)
    Review preview for The Wire: Season Two

    It might be a tough watch that'll put many off early doors, but this is still top-notch television.

    Stephen Carty · 3.5 out of 5
    The second season of the Baltimore drug-ring cops - and an all-new case.
  • Wit (2001)
    Review preview for Wit

    Well made and with an incredibly powerful central performance.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 4 out of 5
    University don fights cancer by treating it as she does the sonnets of John Donne.
  • Wizards (1977)
    Review preview for Wizards

    While having so little money may, paradoxically, have liberated Bakshi from studio interference, this freedom allows him to indulge in ideas that are, metaphorically and otherwise, away with the fairies.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    A post-Apocalyptic Earth is the setting for wizard warfare.
  • The Work (2017)
    Review preview for The Work

    The importance of cinema hinges on its power to communicate, and here we see human expression at its most raw.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A documentary following a group of men who go into a prison to receive therapy from prisoners aimed at keeping them from becoming convicts themselves.
  • The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
    Review preview for The World's Fastest Indian

    A gem of a picture.

    David Stanners · 4.5 out of 5
    A Sixtysomething New Zealander is determined to set a land speed record across the Salt Flats of Utah on his 1920s motorcycle.
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)
    Review preview for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

    Pure joy from start to finish.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    A vegetable horror comedy for claymation villagers and a dog.
  • Water Lilies (2007)
    Review preview for Water Lilies

    This is focused filmmaking, not so much elegiac as lyric.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Love and sex become urgent issues for the young members of a sychronised swimming team.
  • Waverly (2025)
    Review preview for Waverly

    There might be room for an interesting story here but sadly the film is very one-sided.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A nightclub doorman and a bartender try to make their troubled relationship work.
  • Weapons (2025)
    Review preview for Weapons

    What we see is framed from the perspective of those after whom the chapters are named but we get the consequences of their visions too. We also see what they're afraid of, and how that intersects and overlaps is where Weapons is sharpest.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
  • Weekend (2011)
    Review preview for Weekend

    Achieves a level of emotional authenticity in that it leaves the lasting impression of a first stolen kiss in the dark.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A one-night stand turns into something altogether more unexpected in Andrew Haigh's heartfelt love story.
  • Welcome To The Jungle (2003)
    Review preview for Welcome To The Jungle

    The plot may be a pot-pourri of action cliches, but the film has a healthy sense of humour and an easy way with itself.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The Rock goes to Brazil to bring Seann William Scott back from the rainforest.
  • Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer (2022)
    Review preview for Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer

    Whilst it’s never intrusive, the film makes room for the personal and, perhaps more importantly, for Herzog to meander, interlinking diverse ideas in his inimitable way.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A portrait of the celebrated filmmaker.
  • Wet Season (2019)
    Review preview for Wet Season

    The drama is delicately handled.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    In Singapore, teacher Ling becomes the object of an infatuation when she takes one of her students under her wing.
  • We Are Living Things (2021)
    Review preview for We Are Living Things

    The film begins in a landscape of urban decay and it’s a long time before we see a horizon.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two immigrants to the US go in search of the truth about a shared UFO abduction.
  • We Were Soldiers (2001)
    Review preview for We Were Soldiers

    A true fan is reluctant to give up on a movie and yet 20 minutes into this, the need to escape is almost irresistible.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Mel Gibson leads 400 men into a Vietnam ambush and fights his way out again.
  • What's Your Number? (2011)
    Review preview for What's Your Number?

    Mylod doles out cliche after cliche - drinks and debauchery in clubs, waking up with Mr Wrong - but never injects enough warmth or humor into proceedings to keep them fresh.

    David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
    A woman revisits her past 20 boyfriends to see if she's lost Mr Right.
  • Whina (2022)
    Review preview for Whina

    Whina is given very well-appointed and loving treatment in a story that’s so powerful it rises above the filmmakers’ more sentimental tendencies.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    The life story of Dame Whina Cooper, who in 1975 united her people to lead an epic march across Aotearoa (New Zealand) for Māori land rights.
  • The Whip And The Body (1965)
    Review preview for The Whip And The Body

    Here you will find that combination of style, charisma and viciousness which made Lee unforgettable as Hammer’s Dracula, but several shades darker.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorised, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly engaged to his brother.
  • The White Ribbon (2009)
    Review preview for The White Ribbon

    The slippery nature of the morality on show coupled with the shifting sands of the narrative makes this an uneasy watch - yet it is also a beautiful and masterfully constructed film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Tensions in a German town on the eve of the First World War.
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1998)
    Review preview for Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Not without its silly and over-the-top moments, Who Framed Roger Rabbit remains a very entertaining technical marvel.

    Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
    When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, his only hope is an animation-loathing gumshoe.
  • The Wicker Man (1973)
    Review preview for The Wicker Man

    Truly a milestone in British cinema.

    Max Blinkhorn · 5 out of 5
    A policeman gets more than he bargained for on a remote Scottish isle.
  • The Wicker Tree (2010)
    Review preview for The Wicker Tree

    Although this is a flawed film, it certainly isn't the disaster many had feared, and it will provide viewers with much to think about.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A Texas gospel singer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in a bizarre ceremony of pagan rites.

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