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  • American Gangster (2007)
    Review preview for American Gangster

    Scott has gone back to source, bringing viewers the most refined product available.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    The true story of the rise of an American mobster.
  • As Good As It Gets (1997)
    Review preview for As Good As It Gets

    Nicholson gathers his bag of tricks and succeeds in making a terrible man endearing. Hunt is a wonder.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An unlikely relationship between a obssessive compulsive, his gay neighbour and a waitress.
  • Chill Factor (1999)
    Review preview for Chill Factor

    The film is a reminder of how well directed Speed was and that James Bond stunts can't be replicated on the cheap.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A couple of regular Joes find themselves on the run from terrorists after they come into possession of a top-secret weapon.
  • The Fighting Temptations (2003)
    Beyonce injects Southern grit into a small town Baptist choir.
  • Home On The Range (2004)
    Review preview for Home On The Range

    A film like this is great for kids: fun, bright, short (76 minutes) and action packed, with a soft nurturing touch.

    David Stanners · 3 out of 5
    A greedy cattle rustler tries to evict the animals from their land, but the animals have other ideas.
  • Instinct (1998)
    Review preview for Instinct

    Gooding and Hopkins give it the works... pity the script lets them down.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A psychiatric student tries to find out what makes a killer ape expert tick.
  • Jerry Maguire (1996)
    Review preview for Jerry Maguire

    What's remarkable about Crowe's cinematic high-point is how he achieves conventional things in unconventional ways.

    Stephen Carty · 5 out of 5
    A sports agent tries to go it alone... with just one client.
  • Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)
    Review preview for Lee Daniels' The Butler

    Race is a complicated issue, and knowing the past, Daniels seems to say, is as important as making up your mind to act in the present.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A butler's eye view of the White House staffer who served seven presidents.
  • Machete Kills (2013)
    Review preview for Machete Kills

    Machete Kills is a jumbled assortment of loosely related scenes whose main theme appears to be “how many different ways can you kill people with a helicopter?”

    Max Crawford · 3.5 out of 5
    Machete is recruited by the US government to travel through Mexico and take down a drug dealer who plans to launch a deadly space weapon.
  • 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.
  • Norbit (2007)
    Review preview for Norbit

    Its production values are really low, bright colours hardly compensating for shoddy camerawork.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Meeting his childhood sweetheart again after 20 years, mild-mannered accountant Norbit has just one problem - his terrifying wife.
  • Pearl Harbor (2001)
    Review preview for Pearl Harbor

    Not so much From Here To Eternity as From Here To This Time Next Week, which is a terrible waste.

    Symon Parsons · 3 out of 5
    The three-hour, $139 million take on the historical event that launched the USA into the Second World War.
  • Radio (2003)
    Review preview for Radio

    While Gooding's performance is fine, it's so bound up in artifice that it's hard to really admire.

    Andrea Mullaney · 2.5 out of 5
    True life story of a mentally disabled man who is helped by a high school football coach
  • Red Tails (2012)
    Review preview for Red Tails

    The worthiness of Lucas' vision and the respect the project has are outweighed by one simple, inescapable fact: Red Tails is boring.

    Andrew Robertson · 1.5 out of 5
    The true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black squadron who battled both enemy pilots and racism on their own side.
  • Rat Race (2001)
    Review preview for Rat Race

    Everyone connected to this film should lose their licence to conduct acts of comedy in a public place.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Rowan Atkinson and a bunch of idiots race from Las Vegas to New Mexico to win $2million.
  • 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.
  • Snow Dogs (2002)
    Review preview for Snow Dogs

    There is a rule of thumb amongst movie buffs: the more scriptwriters the worse the picture. Snow Dogs has five.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Cuba Gooding Jr is a Miami dentist who goes to Alaska to find out who is mammy and pappy were.

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