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  • All About Nina (2018)
    Review preview for All About Nina

    This was raw, visceral stuff, for which we have writer/director Eva Vives to thank.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman wrestles with difficult issues in her personal life as she strives to become a successful comedian.
  • Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (2011)
    Review preview for Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

    Few music documentaries manage to pull together this many top contributors.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of the legendary hop hop act, from high school to superstardom and beyond.
  • Date Night (2010)
    Review preview for Date Night

    Painfully self-conscious, trying ultra hard to be wacky and repeatedly missing the mark.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A married couple's plan to hit the town goes badly awry.
  • Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005)
    Dave Chappelle holds a once in a lifetime free street party in Brooklyn.
  • Happy Feet Two (2011)
    Review preview for Happy Feet Two

    The film has a lot of energy and plenty of appealing characters but it's poorly paced with too many subplots.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Mumble's son, Erik, is struggling to realise his talents in the Emperor Penguin world. Meanwhile, Mumble and his family and friends discover a new threat their home - one that will take everyone working together to save them.
  • John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
    Review preview for John Wick: Chapter 2

    Slowly but surely the wonder of moving pictures bleeds to death in the corner of your mind

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    John Wick faces trouble when a bounty is put on his life after a killing spree of gut wrenching proportions
  • LUV (2012)
    Review preview for LUV

    Succeeds on an emotional level even if it fails to deliver anything very surprising in terms of plot.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    An 11-year-old boy has a sharp coming-of-age as he spends a day in the company of his uncle.
  • Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016)
    Review preview for Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

    With a life as rich as this it's inevitably difficult to cover everything, but Hercules and Whack indulge their audience with as much as it's likely to be able to take in.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A documentary portrait of the legendary poet and activist.
  • The Odd Life Of Timothy Green (2012)
    Review preview for The Odd Life Of Timothy Green

    Likely to please younger audiences who will find the simple, fairy story style arc comfortingly familiar and the central protagonist quirkily relatable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A magical little boy changes the lives of a childless couple and the community they live in.
  • Run All Night (2015)
    Review preview for Run All Night

    Pain has a price

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Mob revenge thriller in New York's bloody streets
  • Selma (2014)
    Review preview for Selma

    There are long stretches when nothing much happens

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights.
  • Smokin' Aces (2006)
    Review preview for Smokin' Aces

    Treat it as a live action cartoon, with dramatic pretensions, and you will not be disappointed.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A contract killing at Lake Tahoe with an assortment of assassins and the FBI blundering along behind.
  • The Tale (2018)
    Review preview for The Tale

    The film is, necessarily, shocking but Fox handles what must have been difficult emotional material for her in a cool and responsible way that makes the message she delivers all the more devastating.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    An investigation into one woman's memory as she’s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
  • Terminator Salvation (2009)
    Review preview for Terminator Salvation

    Terminator Salvation looks more towards its potential sequels than towards itself.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    After Judgement Day, the last remnants of humankind battle for survival against the machines.
  • Wanted (2008)
    Review preview for Wanted

    In terms of awesome per second, Wanted just set a new record.

    Max Crawford · 5 out of 5
    Comic adaptation about an ordinary young man who becomes an elite agent of justice.
  • X/Y (2014)
    Review preview for X/Y

    The biggest problem with Ryan Piers Williams' latest is that, although it is nicely shot and well acted, the characters with the most going for them are given the least screentime.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Restless New Yorkers try to find happiness.

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Freeform Will Niava on grief, new immigrant experiences and Jazz Infernal

In silence Emir Kumova on child marriage in Türkiye, moral challenges and making The Witness

Taking a ride into liminal spaces Katharine Round on making documentary Ghost Town

Flying blind Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham on improvisation, experimental writing and Littermates

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